Yesterday was productive! I ran through the points I'd made in the critique. I then kitbashed the small secondary vehicle; in this case, I took an abandoned space cab front and married it to the rear of a different vehicle - a cargo tug. It's not the best design, but it absolutely rocks, given that I spent more time cleaning up than I did on its actual modelling.
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| Abandoned pod |
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| Krocadil light rig |
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| Hello Kitty bash bash! |
Here's some weird trivial: I turned the model upside down early in constructing that pod and forgot I'd done it. By the time I realised I couldn't accept the correction in my head, this was the right way, even though there were viewing ports weirdly at the bottom. Let's be fair; in space, there's no up or down, and these things are operated using conformal cameras that create a three-dimensional all-directions view for the controller and his AI. You don't need windows except for emergencies.
What next?
The Dragonfly rigs need cradles and airlock.
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| Ready to be cradled. Is two enough? |
I might slightly scale the Dragonfly and add a beefier thruster at the rear. It was missing from the version I kit-bashed for some reason.
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| I'm going to redesign the cargo containers and make them look less sci-fi and more NASA. Simpler, more utilitarian, with more engineering elements. I might have them stored in a 3x2 cages. |
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