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Shandars just happen to be over optimistic, happy-go-lucky lizards who swim in lava and enjoy cold drinks while at it. They MUST have colorful ships!
Honestly, Shandars probably become one of my top-5 favourite races after Woodman finishes their set. [:)]

Orange definitly suites them, a good start.

The new humans look great, and the Shandar ship too.

The human colony ship is no longer a slightly bigger cruiser

I really love the effort you've put into this mod, but I got to admit I've been mixing the new and new-old ships and bases of the humans to get something I prefer. I'm using the latest human ships, with the exception of the destroyer, frigate, escort and exploration ship (need a distinguishable icon in the left sidemenu in-game) and swapped the gas station with the old one (the new gas and mining stations are too similar imho).

Excellent work on the pack though and I'm looking forward to the Shandar addition!

Four thums up!

ORIGINAL: WoodMan

A go at Shandar, just playing around. A bit garish perhaps, but Orange and Silver was the popular choice in previous discussions in this thread [:D]

Edit: Replaced image with a better one, the silvery bits are now less Orange

Why Woodman, you sly devil, are you 'intentionally' putting 'Narn' colors into
this set to call your own? [:-]

Continue your EXCELLENT efforts mate! [:)]

Is it just me or does the Naxx shipset not appear on the first page?  I get this small square box stating it was removed or unavailable.

Edit:

It says: Tinypic........the image or video has been moved or deleted.

ORIGINAL: Simulation01

It says: Tinypic........the image or video has been moved or deleted.

Same here. I'm sure WoodMan will fix it in the morning. He's probably tucked up in bed by now. [>:]

it's a sabotage, who naturally dislikes naxx? [:D]

[:D] lol, my picture of the Naxx was removed from TinyPic for some reason.  I'm guessing maybe I host too many pics there, time to delete some of the unused ones from older games.

sounds like you have a big problem...you're too prolific [:)]

I like the look of that new ship. [:)]

Dude I have to repeat, this is some really solid work.
I am hoping we will be able to use more ship sets soon.
Between you and IGard and the BSG mod, I have more ships than I know what to do with...

Thanks very much for the kind comments.

Also, the Naxx preview is back on the first page [:D]

I decided to make the Shandar out of their original shipset instead. The previous ship I was posted was made using the Golden and Silver set, but I think using their original set will make the orange look more natural.

I can't decide if the ships, especially the larger ones should have antenna on them. Recently I've not been putting antenna on ships, but a couple of the less intelligent races have them, like the Boskara and Teekan for example. (Shandar are one of the less intelligent races).

Heres a destroyer at full zoom:

Destroyer looks great. I get what you mean about the antenna. I think maybe one antenna extended from the rear section of the main hull on a sort of arm making the ship less symmetrical therefore might make them look a bit less sophisticated if that's what you're going for.

Looking good! And I'm fine with it, with or without antennas. 

I have actually had the chance to really sit down and play the game in depth for the first time in a while; your work is excellent.
Thank you.
I changed a couple of the fighters out; I use a B-70 Valkerie for my attack bombers, but I use a lot of your stuff. Thank you!

Antenna idea:

I suggest placing an antenna on each side of the front round section. And have them angled back 45 or 60 degrees.

At first, I thought having them come straight out the side of the front 'command' section would be nice, but the angled ones would bring some cool. If you want to add some thin antennae anyway. [;)]

Thanks for the suggestion.  I'm going to try Antenna on the 5 large ships and on the bases and see what they look like.  But I'm making the ships without them first and going to stick them on when I'm finished.  I changed the theme slightly again so the Destroyer above has been scrapped now [:D]

The Shandar ships now look the same as the Shandar uniform you see him/her/it wearing in the diplomacy window.  A sort of white plastic look with some orange and silver. [:D]  I was just in game testing but forgot to take any screenies, next time I go in i'll take one [:)]

cliffhanger [:)]