>> The Yerushalyim and Barak are particularly nice cruisers,

> The Yerushalyim and Barak are particularly nice cruisers,

Roit!

> Those Yerushalayim(sp?) and Barak ARE fetching, but aren't they a

The Barak is more "muscular" looking in the fore hull and engine. I think if
you painted them Identically you could have some confusion.
So... don't paint them identically.  :-)

> It is simply gorgeous. Well designed, well cast, and a

Nah. I never got my act together to make the attempt at building models. I'd
still like to one day, though. So I'm tooting for Jon.

> Great job, Jon!

No, no. My point is he deserves _your_ lucre. Or, rather, more of it.
:-)

> I can't depend on getting kits together the way they're intended. Just

I can certainly to that. Once I get the NI Beta designs OK'd and online, I'll
think through a couple potential bashed options. Or
You-bash-it and I'll-stat-it.

> What's bigger than an SDN?

I like Leviathan (LN) as class alot (Or Leviatan for an NI uberDN). For the UN
you could use Titan (TN) I agree that Monitors sound slow, but that shouldn't
stop you if you like the term.

> The degradation potential that this thread has acquired
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is: "Never get
involved in a land war in the ESU." But, only slightly less well known is
this: "Never go in against a Federal Statsman, when
_death_ is on the line!"

And one last kitbash note. I may have mentioned this before, but if you
replace the fore-hull on the Tzion with another fighter bay and turn
the mini to face the other way, paint the bays as engines, and the two
engine pod/nacelles become twin Big Honking Honking Guns (Twin Nova
Cannons? Graser 4's or 5's?). Not really an NI alternate design, but something
to think about.