If you weren't around to see the first one, Alchemy was a sort of restricted-form beauty pageant we had where participants had to build a ship based on a sketch. This time, I've prepared a fairly blocky one with lots of hard edges, although it does have its quirks.
The Alchemy sketch you will be referencing.
You have a large level of liberty when it comes to building your ship. There are no restrictions on style, colors, section usage, or even size (more on that later). The object of this contest is to see how different people implement the same basic idea.
The full rules:
1. You must use the sketch as your background image while building. It does not need to follow the shape exactly, but it should have the same basic silhouette.
2. You should resize the sketch to your liking, as the sketch is fairly large as it is (even bigger than the last one, in fact). Making sure not to alter the aspect ratio, you should shrink the sketch to a size that is manageable for you. If you want to show off, however, it is perfectly acceptable to use the sketch as-is (or bigger, ahahahaha).
3. Creating new custom sections for the ship is allowed, but keep it to a reasonable level if you do so at all.
4. This time around, you'll need to post your ships in the thread, because I can't be arsed to sift through the PMs.
5. You are encouraged to write a short backstory for the ship, to be included in your post. I understand it looks like a pretty generic Terran battleship, but you can do better.
Hopefully I'll be judging with Anna this time around. Two heads are better than one, you know?
Good luck, and have fun.
how do you make it the background? I've already made it a .bmp, but is there something else i need to do?
