Yeah, the fact that the old ship has textures and the new one doesn't is a point that's been mentioned at least a couple times at SFM. I did tell them what I plan to do with the textures (which I might start sooner rather than later) and they seem to think it's a good idea. Basically, I want to do something Ambassador-ish, similar to what Madkoifish did on his Balmung model. I really like that model, in fact his recent post about it on his blog got me wanting to either build a new ship in this era or finish this one. Obviously, I opted for the latter.
