No images of the P-72 at this time, sadly. It's so early in the development of the game, my purchases are just made on (in my eyes) cool factor. The majority of my ships are non LTI, so it doesn't bother me to melt them. I can see what you're saying about bits and pieces looking, Mace, but it looks interesting to me.
Trading and exploration are what I'm thinking (at the moment) that I'll be doing in the PU, but that may change as the game development progresses. Looking at the payload of the Taurus and the price around the same as the Freelancer Max... I'm close to getting one, but since it's still unusable and one of the items available anytime, I'll wait to see what else is available until such time as we can start using the multicrew ships.
With all the new information released at Gamesconn, I'm getting even more charged up about the game