Hey guys,

I come from the Praetoria Guard, a well known Halo 2 community clan, and having discovered Freelancer I wish to start a dedicated server. Now our whole persona is the Phoenix symbol, everytime we create a machinima video or a website with our name on we use this.

And so I thought, hey there are Eagles, Falcons and Hawks in this, so I had the idea of basing a ship design off either on of those. I'm guessing the Eagle, but the others seem to look more hard to hit with their missing middle wings and top fins etc.

I would like to create an experimental EHF (Extremely Heavy Fighter) called the Phoenix but here is my first problem.

Most of the tutorials here and based on starting from scratch etc and in looking at some of them I can't seem to figure out where to start in my situation.

I basically want to take the existing Eagle, Falcon and Hawk ships and be able to re-skin them, and then get to work with a lot of ini editing (which I can figure out mostly with other tutorials).

I'm basically looking at how to open what I need, edit the textures, and be able to put them back, if someone could explain this to me I'd be very grateful.

What I could really do with is someone that can be there from start to finish whilst I build this new ship.

It's primarily going to be an admin ship of sorts, but I would also like to be able to use it to play with, as the admins don't just need to sit in New York all the time, they should get in on the fun also hehe.

Thanks for your time guys!