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[Tecrys]

That one's really nice!
Reminds me of Prometheus ... that's the assymetry I guess.
And those red lights on the bridge are really intimidating!

[rst30]

Excuse me, sorry for asking, but what does "kitbashing" mean?

[ValkyriaL]

You take parts from many different ships and stitch them together into a new one.

[Tecrys]

One more I did quickly today, I thought of it to be a transport.
Edit: Cruiser siced transport since it's smaller than an Atlas.
Some lore already: Homeworld of the crab people is Southpark!

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[Gotcha!]

My gawd... the crab people do exist!

[Bjørn_in_the_Sector]

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[Tecrys]

Yay! Finally finished work ... like 2 hours ago xD
Here's what I did since then, hope you like it.
A revision of my transport, much happier with it and the second one is the same just with cargo attached.

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[Desforrar]

Interesting, where do you take parts for kitbashing?

[Tecrys]

I'm not sure if I should tell anybody what I use for kitbashing.
Isn't it obvious?

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Orange looks way better but I need to draw some shadows between those bubbles to make them look better ...

[xenoargh]

You need to rework that, in terms of light; the light sources are all wrong.  Part of the "fun" of trying to use kitbashed art like that.

[Tecrys]

Thanks for the advice, I think so too.
Looks flat and that bubble sack is completely wrong.
I haven't been into details with this one yet but some better shadows/lights would be nice indeed.

The light source in SS is on top and slightly in front of the ship, right? I think I've read that somewhere in a guide ...

Edit: I hope my years of experience in painting miniatures will help with getting those shadows right ...
Oh I forgot, do you think the one without cargo looks weird too? Some areas look right but I think it has some lighting issues as well.

[xenoargh]

The light source in SS is on top and slightly in front of the ship, right? I think I've read that somewhere in a guide ...

Yup.

Getting that corrected is going to be tricky; it'd almost be easier to just do it from scratch, at least if you're really keen on that oil-painted look.

[Tecrys]

I wish I could something like this from scratch ...

I'm just fooling around with some parts here.

Let's see how far I can get this, got some nice ideas for weapons and decorative animated stuff.
However how do you think is the ship design in general?
Should I continue like this or do you feel alien space crustacians/insects should look different?

[xenoargh]

The design ideas are great   Realizing them is a little hard, if you're not working from scratch.  I probably should do another one of those "speed-paint" tutorials concerning biological stuff; that's actually pretty easy to do if you're reasonably good with airbrush.

[xenoargh]

Tried a quickie "bio-ship / space-tentacle-monster" from scratch, just fooling around with stuff.  I like the one on the right, myself.  I think it still needs some lights, though; feels a little bit off-scale atm.