all in all, it helps with situating yourself with visual, it also is kinda fun to design stuff as you imagined

Yep. And people are generally more visually-oriented.

aye

Astra-Class science ship, stock.

*Natural Selection* modded gunship.

Working up a new stock ship is relaxing; modding one out from there is more fun.

that's pretty in depth, mate

A scientific space ship would be incredibly hard to launch in that shape, a modular design like the ISS is the only way space stations can be launched to space

Really cool design though, are those heat sheild tiles?

i sure hope they are

it looks very in depth with layered blueprints

Is it for reentry?

The beauty of space is you can have really fragile designs because it's a vacume

It’s an older piece but it still checks out

oh it checks out very much, mate

as a fan of detailing myself, I can appreciate the work on this mecha

nice use of only back and white

The universe my ships are in has gravity control. It's a side effect of the FTl drives. The older ships I create are closer to current tech; the newer ones get further away as the tech advances.

The stock version of those is from 2286 up.

the black and whites are often more cool than the colored fully shaded ones

They're cleaner at times, and you can fill in the colors mentally.

Okay, this is my oldest regular tech ship from my universe. Circa 2122.

Starflare FuelMaster refueling and processing ship.

I like the eclectic designs

Thanks. They reflect the changing tech over the centuries.

you really thought it through, you have living space and crew commodities thought of

specs are a cut above the generic plans

This is designed to be a scoopship, gathering and compressing gases from the Jovian planets for use in the solar system. No gravity, no landing gear, no FTL.

ye ye i can see that happenin'

made to just wander and gather

The circles underneath are globular storage tanks.

ye ye it's well thought of, mate

Thank you.

well you deserve it

it's well layed out

In my main universe, WW III hits in 2069. Earth rebuilds, then runs into hostile aliens in 2143.

We learn from their tech, and that's where humanity *really* starts expanding.

69

meme year