That looks cool and something you’ll think twice before attacking also those yellow boxes look like that could be some kind of external coolant system for those plasma cannons so they can fire fastest then normal.
Originally I wanted those yellow boxes to be nothing more than something aesthetic but after building the model for sometime I thought. Maybe they could be some kind of small shielded power plants for each individual Plasma gun. So I tried to make them look like they had some type of exhaust ports.
The model itself started out as nothing but a Southhampton class Destroyer. But after adding a hanger, some newer engines, a few details. I tried to make it look like some type of Converted Destroyer. I got this idea after watching a program on History channel about Different types of Converted Destroyers during WW2. Some were designated into Fast Troop Transports or minesweepers. Basically whatever they needed to be. The Allies during WW2 converted them.
So It was just a thought, but at least a plausible one for the storyline. When Confed mothballed alot of the fleet ships, in light of the newer megacarriers "Midway Class" etc... It might have seemed plausible that a few of the older ships especially the smaller ones (Destroyers, Corvettes, Cargo ships, even smaller cruisers). Went on the black market of some type. And with the advent of the Nephilim Virus and the second Nephilim incursion. It's rather plausable that perhaps confed needed the credits by then. Instead of totally scrapping old ships, the extremely old ones just got sold off. To make way for newer/larger ship classes "Indomitable".