Jayfourke
WRS Missile Frigate
Many years ago, I built a couple of spaceships that were White, with Red Stripes. This is a continuation, of sorts, but much smaller.
Inspired, amongst other things, by Homeworld concept art, The Expanse, UNSC ships from Halo, and many and varied artworks from across the internet.
In terms of the build, I'm very pleased with the engines in particular. They came together in a single build session, along with the angled panels behind the red stripe made with those spiky angle plates. It was just one of those moments where everything came together just so, which was nice.
Also pleased with the missile pods, which is the gimmick that this built started with. I found two coffins in my Box of Bits That Don't Fit Anywhere Else in My Sorting System, so I resolved to make use of them. They were initially larger, using 1x1 barrels, but they proved to be overpoweringly large, so I shrunk them down just to 1x1 round plates, offset with a second every other slot. If I had 26 1x1 round tiles in the same (non-transparent) colour I'd have used them, but I don't. Oh well.
There's quite a lot of angular nonsense going on to line the panels on either side of the missile pods, and it's not quite to the same angle as the 3x6 wedge, but it's close enough.
The nose is the simplest part of the ship, but I've tried to balance the length against the rather hefty engine and midsection.
I'm planning on assembling a small fleet for STEAM, so we'll see what more variations on the White/Red/DkRed (with DkGrey engines, TrBlue windows) theme I can come up with. I have ideas aplenty, the challenge now is making something from the ideas.
(I may or may not have a similarly sized WIP, but hollow and aircraft-carrier-y on my desk already. I also also may have ideas for a certain September theme month... we shall see...)
WRS Missile Frigate
Many years ago, I built a couple of spaceships that were White, with Red Stripes. This is a continuation, of sorts, but much smaller.
Inspired, amongst other things, by Homeworld concept art, The Expanse, UNSC ships from Halo, and many and varied artworks from across the internet.
In terms of the build, I'm very pleased with the engines in particular. They came together in a single build session, along with the angled panels behind the red stripe made with those spiky angle plates. It was just one of those moments where everything came together just so, which was nice.
Also pleased with the missile pods, which is the gimmick that this built started with. I found two coffins in my Box of Bits That Don't Fit Anywhere Else in My Sorting System, so I resolved to make use of them. They were initially larger, using 1x1 barrels, but they proved to be overpoweringly large, so I shrunk them down just to 1x1 round plates, offset with a second every other slot. If I had 26 1x1 round tiles in the same (non-transparent) colour I'd have used them, but I don't. Oh well.
There's quite a lot of angular nonsense going on to line the panels on either side of the missile pods, and it's not quite to the same angle as the 3x6 wedge, but it's close enough.
The nose is the simplest part of the ship, but I've tried to balance the length against the rather hefty engine and midsection.
I'm planning on assembling a small fleet for STEAM, so we'll see what more variations on the White/Red/DkRed (with DkGrey engines, TrBlue windows) theme I can come up with. I have ideas aplenty, the challenge now is making something from the ideas.
(I may or may not have a similarly sized WIP, but hollow and aircraft-carrier-y on my desk already. I also also may have ideas for a certain September theme month... we shall see...)