Some Assorted Ships...

Venator · Post by **Venator** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:42 pm

Nothing too special, just a few side-projects and tangents I've been working on. I've got two or three fleets that I'm serious about, these are just "doodles".

The Stormarrow:
Playing around with station-like branching in four directions from the core. Played with the pinnacles and Aegis to make something I think looks at least interesting.

The Shipion:
So named because I couldn't decide if I was building a ship or a station till it got underway

. Playing with Boosters and such.

Police Ships:
Messing around with basic asymmetry. I'll probably expand on them.

The Gemstar:
Boredom. An ugly brick covered with Aegis. Moving on.

The Explorator:
Trying to make a "hard" scifi vessel. Here's what I came up with.

DL here. Thoughts?

DR nibbles · Post by **DR nibbles** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:45 pm

They look good them and i love the look on the last ship. the

The Explorator

DL please.

KTHXBAI

Venator · Post by **Venator** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:49 pm

Added a DL link to the first post

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DR nibbles · Post by **DR nibbles** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:51 pm

thanks friend

Empty · Post by **Empty** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:44 pm

Sexy, the Gemstar is purty, so I'll forgive it for being an aegis whore.

BlkRdgPharmPRSTAFF · Post by **BlkRdgPharmPRSTAFF** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:26 am

Very impressive. The faint blurry aegis makes some very nice effects. You also pulled off very nice use of Section 26s, and I like the station inspired ships.

Venator · Post by **Venator** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:31 am

BlkRdgPharmPRSTAFF wrote:Very impressive. The faint blurry aegis makes some very nice effects. You also pulled off very nice use of Section 26s, and I like the station inspired ships.

Thanks. I rarely like the "RARGH!!! GLOWWY!" deflector effect, less so when I'm decking a whole ship.

26's have often been a crutch in my building; sometimes it works out great, other times I have to rebuild a ship a few times before I'm happy.

jwa8402 · Post by **jwa8402** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:04 am

Always jump to your post when I see you've posted ships. The explorator is very nice. I mean in spots it looks wrong but then I think harecore scifi vessel and it fits.

The gemstar is pure nastiness, and by that I mean that I phear approaching it.

The police vessels are ok but imo it looks like symetrical ships with a few pieces slapped on one side but not the other. Still, hard to do much at that scale.

The Shipion is different but it just looks unfinished. I see some of the trademarks from your other ships but it could use more work if you decide to keep it. The Stormmarrow is almost pretty although I think thats the colors, but the 4-way is an interesting look.

I look forward to the ships you've been putting actual effort into though, because those will definitly be worth it. Still downloaded these though.

DoubleThink · Post by **DoubleThink** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:51 am

I think you're doing awesome. Good job. The ships are all good, save for the aegis whore. I particularly like the 'realistic' design of the Explorator.

Exethalion · Post by **Exethalion** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:55 am

The Explorator is epic. It would be great to expand on this and make a low-tech space fleet.

The Stormarrow is pretty cool, but everything else is a bit dull and already-been-there.

Venator · Post by **Venator** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:55 pm

Wow, thanks for all the complements! I didn't expect the Explorator to be the star of the collection.

I'm planning on fleshing out the Stormarrow and Explorator lineages to make full fleets; the others were, as jwa8402 and Exethalion, partially-finished and boredom-induced.