[Exan]

Well, I can answer atleast some of your questions. You cannot zoom back in the game, but you can set the viewing distance for that ship model further back in the Main_PurchaseShip.txt

I agree the ship sizes of starfury are little limited but you can edit them if you want and even add more ships.

As for modelling, I've currently made about 20 models or so from scratch and succesfully added them to Starfury. You don't actually require any programming skills at all. There was a thread here once that told how to do models for Starfury. If someone could post a link here it would be great. Or I can just explain it later.

As for SE5. Well what I understand the models will work as it is in SE5 but I guess you'll have to create/edit the datafiles for it.