As good as it gets.
Spot the differences...
So this is my final rebuild of the LL 924 transport spaceship. It is just to get a feel for these ships, and I will break it up soon enough to start on a Classic Space based fantasy.
I did not start with a set, but with some bricks that might have been Classic Space. So I ordered a bunch of other bricks of Bricklink that seemed appropriate, started to build, discovered I was still missing a lot. I looked how far I could get (top-picture), and bought some more bits and pieces. The bottom pic is where I stand now.
I learned some things about the general designs in these things. Repetition seriously helps to make a design look more 'industrial'. And the small white elements like lettering and the arrow down brings a lot of life into the ship.
In trying other stuff, like little rovers and such, I learned that grey on grey tends to get dark en murky real quick (a problem I noticed with castle builds I saw online as well).
So first conclusions: try to work in some white details in builds (I am not going to invest in LL9-something bricks, I plan on building other stuff, perhaps I should buy a sheet of white sticker-letters).
As for the rovers and small vehicles: I should try to insert some other colours as well, perhaps more yellow as a signal colour, or blue and trans-yellow in line with the spaceships.
As good as it gets.
Spot the differences...
So this is my final rebuild of the LL 924 transport spaceship. It is just to get a feel for these ships, and I will break it up soon enough to start on a Classic Space based fantasy.
I did not start with a set, but with some bricks that might have been Classic Space. So I ordered a bunch of other bricks of Bricklink that seemed appropriate, started to build, discovered I was still missing a lot. I looked how far I could get (top-picture), and bought some more bits and pieces. The bottom pic is where I stand now.
I learned some things about the general designs in these things. Repetition seriously helps to make a design look more 'industrial'. And the small white elements like lettering and the arrow down brings a lot of life into the ship.
In trying other stuff, like little rovers and such, I learned that grey on grey tends to get dark en murky real quick (a problem I noticed with castle builds I saw online as well).
So first conclusions: try to work in some white details in builds (I am not going to invest in LL9-something bricks, I plan on building other stuff, perhaps I should buy a sheet of white sticker-letters).
As for the rovers and small vehicles: I should try to insert some other colours as well, perhaps more yellow as a signal colour, or blue and trans-yellow in line with the spaceships.