Aquatic alien ships

[ghoulrealm]

You may have already seen these mocs floating around in some of my previous posts. I thought it was time to finally give them their own topic.

this was quick photoshop background inspired by the new space skin. I'm not completely happy with the star field nor the jet trail yet.

this is an image of the pilot and a version of the ship without large engines on the sides.

The alien minifig is an attempt at making something as unusual as possible and still using minifig person pieces.

The ship evolved from the Life on Mars Set # 7313-1: Red Planet Protector

The brickshelf folder is here.

[snefroe]

that is pretty cool! 8-

[Brainbox]

Nice *y* .

This one's pretty cool too.

[ghoulrealm]

This one's pretty cool too.

One of the slope pieces popped off of the rear "wing" and I didn't realize it until after I uploaded it to brickshelf :-D

I was going to wait until I could fix that and take better pics to post these, but I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon so I went ahead with it as is.

[xenologer]

Nice

but I am really not seeing how that ship, could in any way be based on red planet protector.... *wacko* they look totally different

On another note... one thing I always thought strange about aquatic spaceships is...

Underwater the hull would be under pressure from the water

but in space the pressure is the other direction, with the air inside wanting to escape

seems to me that since these are opposite directions, it would be probably difficult to design a vehicle to survive both.

Those mon calimari ships from SW always bugged me cause of this...

[ghoulrealm]

Nice

but I am really not seeing how that ship, could in any way be based on red planet protector.... *wacko* they look totally different

I wish I could take the pics of the evolution for you. I did it slowly but surely: first thing was to remove the legs. Then I added the sand-blue slope peices in a rounded configuration. Then removed the window and added more circular slope configurations all over at angles. I was changing it over a period months, off and on.

On another note... one thing I always thought strange about aquatic spaceships is...

Underwater the hull would be under pressure from the water

but in space the pressure is the other direction, with the air inside wanting to escape

seems to me that since these are opposite directions, it would be probably difficult to design a vehicle to survive both.

Those mon calimari ships from SW always bugged me cause of this...

I don't have a definative back story for my mocs, Although I would assume that these advanced cultures have technologically solved the problems of extreme hull stresses. I would also think a deep sea diving vessel would need little modification to be space worthy, pressure wise.

[Asuka]

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