That station looks cool, are you going to make a whole "Pirate" shipset? If you do, I'll package it with P&N
For the gridwork, If you take a pair of armor outlines, and bend the edges towards each other, you'd get something like what I was imagining. add some half-beam connectors going out from the vertices, for the impression that they connect with other structural components.
Ooohh.

Real plasma armor!
I'll have to take a closer look at home, but I like the firey underside
PS: your "LargeAntiMatterEngine.BMP" is not actually a BMP, but a PSP file. You need to convert that one.