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Shrike-class raider (fan design)

I've been absent for so half of year, during which a Winx Club reboot has made its release (subtitled Magic is back), and I immediately picked its Red fountain ships designs. Firstly I took the main one, which is similar to Owl from original's season 8 (Owl-2 class raider in my the Magix concept), and reimagined it into a Shrike-class raider.

Raider ship type is more combat-oriented version of transport & attack ships like Owl-class from most previous Winx Club seasons. According to my concept's lore, Shrike-class raider line is an old one, with first designs dating to early 20th century. The latest design - Shrike-8 - is shown here. It was built during the Dark dimension conflict to combat Darkar's forces. Initial plans for Shrike-8 were to make a science expeditionary science vessel, but increasing war efforts demanded a combat-ready starship. During our days, this design is considered outdated, but is still in widespread use together with its Owl-2 class successor.

Its hull design is mostly sleek. It has two engines with entrance ramp between them. The main deviation from reboot's ship is proportions aspect. While that design is more compact, my rendition is larger, it gets the Owl's exposed levitator and Osprey's circular one (both lit blue), and the same green-lit touch consoles (instead of cyan with yellow). Shrike's main weapons are four plasma cannons behind the landing headlights and some hidden weapons, which is an optional setting which is adjusted for the task the ship goes to. The wing modules both contain additional levitators and extra modules like scanners, jammers, deflector emitters etc - leftover from scientific roots of Shrike-8. On the dorsal hull there are two heat ventas that glow blue - early on Shrike-8 was fitted with too powerful reactor, necessiating vents to direct off excess energy. It was later used as makeshift weapon which vents plasma clouds right onto pursuing fighters. After the conflict reactor models were replaced, but plasma vents remained as an extra weapon.

Yeah, I know, the ship doesn't look as the same as in the series. Frankly said, I've never had intention of creating the exact copy of the ship - at least something similar.

Forward view

Forward view

Ventral view

Ventral view

Interior

Interior

Registry number

Registry number

Aft view

Aft view

Dorsal view

Dorsal view

Aft ventral view

Aft ventral view

Landed

Landed