Thank you, but the real credit goes to Darius Lipinski who prepared the CAD of the ship. We used most of my existing weapons and fittings designed for the Buchanan, but the ship hull and superstructure were all Darius. My only contribution to that was to open up the doorways and prepare the parts for molding breakdown. Darius is working on other Gearing variants as we speak. Sorry all I can say is that there will be at least 3 other Gearing's.
I have also enlisted the help of a former design assistant of mine, to do work on another totally different project for Dragon. Can't say what it is, but it will be well received. I think the Gearing came out better than the Buchanan in many ways thanks to lessons learned, but the next one will be even better. I am myself working on CAD for something new and Dragon is doing a few other projects mostly on their own. I would like to do more, but have a real job and too many irons in the fire to take on any more. I'd love to tell everyone what is in the pipeline, but I am not allowed to.
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