While I like the hardpoint system, the other thing you could do is convert stuff into Corvette style vessels withouth physical or targetable hardpoints.
This is "akula" from before, my lost password site won't let me retrieve it. Anyways, is it possible to save these as a progressive .X file?? Is it possible to import a .X files vertices into a default structure that will allow you to create something along the lines of the corvette? AKA no hardpoints, no complex explosion but just the model?