The Admiral Hipper’s exterior is almost done. Normally when I get this far I get a strong urge to start chipping away at a sister ship. That’s when my understanding of the external layout is at its strongest so I make smaller messes changing things around. Unfortunately I can’t do that because the Hipper’s internals aren’t even close to finished. If I just copied the ship as is and tried to make any of the sister ships on the side, I’d wind up having to make an interior twice.

On a ship this size?

No thank you. Whether they turn out the same or one winds up being better, that’s way too inefficient. I’m just going to have to finish the Hipper first or get fairly close.

As a side note, there are some specific ships I want to build before any of the others, including the Prinz Eugen, Scharnhorst, and Belfast. I’ve got some SE lore coming together that might help me scratch that writing itch while I sort out LGT, Artorius, and Remnants.

One other thing to mention is that I did try to build some rotor turrets for the ship yesterday. It didn’t go well. While the SBY weapons mod is fantastic, the fixed versions of the shock cannons are extremely heavy, way too much for unmodded rotors to handle. Just placing them nearly destroyed the turret frame. This is a problem I’m going to have to put off a bit longer, maybe until late August when the next phase of weapons comes out. I wanted the Kaiser faction to be using red colored energy weapons wherever possible anyway, so maybe that will help. Otherwise I’ll have to ask the mod creator if they’d be willing to look into the problem.