BlackDawn model has been ruined :(

why that saski? trololotating lights are pro!

Wings are not optimal I agree.

I'm going to restate my thoughts on this.

1) Old magical flying brick without weapons and with permablazing jets was awful and silliest model ZK had.
2) New one is much better. At least it tries to be a gunship.
3) All flaws in new one are those left from the original:
- permablaze
- lack of visible weapons
- color is dissonant with rest of gunship models

The thing new one does suboptimally is rotor size. I agree that blades, not the whole construction, should rotate. Maybe thickness of blade ring could also be reduced. But imo that is much less important than, say, getting rid of permablaze.

Yeah new one is more realistic...

The engines also have to look good. I think it's pretty clear that engines should not point out of the side of a wing, it breaks symmetry and makes no sense structurally.

The BD already tilts around, it'd still be a flying brick.

The engines in the back are really bad, they make so little sense for something that spends mostof it's time hovering.

What 'breaks the symetry'? Having the wings be narrow like that? Most of the time they aren't they're pitched back because it's moving, and I could put the engine on the bottom of the wing.

And structurally? It's the same as the Banshee.

i liek the roginal one

Even if it is supposed to be a wing, it makes way more sense to have it rotating to a positive angle of attack. Having it fixed where it is always pointing at a downward angle would be generating negative lift.

Not that the model needs to perfectly reflect reality because it won't anyway, but I don't think the argument for the previous model being better is objective.

It makes sense, that the rotors (like on helicopters) are hidden inside.

It is an assault unit. A real heli would crash, if a rotating part gets cut by lasers.


BTW: I think Gunships shouldn't use JET engines to maintain the altitude.

Your real problem is that you're just bound up to the old model, and while the new model offers different balance in the overall scheme you are just forcing yourself to hate it.

What I'm thinking about is something else actually, I'm just wondering why the devs didn't make entirely new model, comeon guys there are tons of good looking propositions for a Gunship, it didn't exactly had to stay in the same scheme, now, did it?