I worked on quite a lot of project FYI. Lead a few myself. All finished in good time too.
It's not about not using my model in-game. Heck, there's a lot of my stuff that never made it into various projects (some of my stuff didn't make it in MY OWN projects). There's several things of mine you're not using - I'm perfectly fine with that.
The problem I have is of a different nature. You throwing bogus* reasons (like aerodynamics, too thin wing, too big engines) instead of just saying" It's not what we looking for. We want something that has a bit more Z". Some constructive criticims would have been nice to.
Something along the line of "the texture is to dark, doesn't look metaly enough. I envision rounder engines", "Phalanx uses a smaller cockpit" etc...you know, something that might give me a rough idea of what you DO want. Or at least how I can change it to suit your needs.
By now you should have figured that I got no objections to completey changing it, but I don't know exacty what to change it into.
So you might want to give me some ideas here.
*yes, bogus, cause half the craft you have have the exact same problems,even worse.