woofmcmoose Posted September 6, 2015 (edited) Location: A08 - Crentium Tags: Spaceship, Military Aboard the MSS Titan inbound from Anomaly A08 to Crentium. Henry Moose Personal Log ...so the intel was all wrong; the unknown menace didn't hit Terrial Minor at all, all those jumps for nothing! Rumour is that the aliens showed up in Kawashita space. Command moved the whole fleet back to Torresta for maintenance and replenishment, though some elements have been sent straight back out again; Lucky us! The Titan is inbound for Crentium, the plan is to skirt Kawashita space and see if we can triangulate the location of the Alien fleet. Whilst the titan can do the job by herself we've picked up an Aquarius Class transport and a Stinger Class Battlecruiser at Mynderis on the way. After all we might as well pick up some resources and cause some mayhem whilst we're here! I've no idea when we picked up the light Cargo Ship; those guys are not particularly talkative. I'm guessing must be Spec Ops here to have some fun too. End Log. OOC and lots of pics below: This is my first real attempt at microscale spaceships and I wanted to build a few to give a sense of just how large the MSS Titan is. I started off building the drive section; the 'fins' are supposed to be radiators to shed the drive's heat (heat management is a very real spacecraft issue often overlooked in sci-fi). The front of the ship include the bridge, which sticks out above the hangar bay doors. These are primarily where the Titan's various combat drones are launched and recovered, but is also big enough for small transports, shuttles and manned fighters. Below the 'flight deck' are various sensors. Finally the belly is mostly greebles for interests sake. The Aquarius class tanker basically started with an attempt to scale down the Titan's dive section. I then aimed for a modular tanker type design, here fitted with 2x water and 2x biomass tanks. They are suspended around a slender central core then braced on each side for stability. The bridge is offset, mostly as I don't have a 1x2 plate with single clip in black, however I quite like it this way. The Stinger Battlecruiser is my microscale attempt at SoccerKid6's Cat B entry. I based the scaling on a comparison of the size of my Titan crew quarters build last week with his build. And then just for fun I threw in a very small version of Big Sal's Cat B too. I did mean to do a photo edit with space background for one shot but ran out of time, sorry! Edited September 6, 2015 by woofmcmoose Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpacerSteve Posted September 6, 2015 (edited) Wow great micro builds. Awesome how you included the stinger class battle cruiser. The Titan is excellent. Edited September 6, 2015 by SpacerSteve Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LittleJohn Posted September 6, 2015 Fantastic micro ships! The titan is superb, I especially like how you used grill bricks for the hangar doors Great job with the stinger too Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
soccerkid6 Posted September 6, 2015 Wonderful micro builds! And I'm honored that you recreated the Stinger, your micro version looks great Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LordDan Posted September 6, 2015 Whoa awesome micro fleet! I really like how you included micro versions of people's cat B while adding some fantastic looking ships of your own! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mediumsnowman Posted September 7, 2015 Awesome micro spaceships! I had some free time this evening and took the liberty of editing the first picture for you. Feel free to use it, after all it's mostly your wonderful work! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rodiziorobs Posted September 7, 2015 Woah, very cool micro builds! I love your smaller versions of sk and Sal's Cat B ships. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andromedas Gates Posted September 8, 2015 The judges awarded you 4 points. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TenorPenny Posted September 8, 2015 You manage to effectively make the ships look different from one another but similar enough to remain MANTIS in mood. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
David FNJ Posted September 8, 2015 Super designs! Great work! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jody Meyer Posted September 9, 2015 Nice micro work, good mantis feel to it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
A Gallifreyan Cat Posted September 9, 2015 Awesome micro spaceships! I had some free time this evening and took the liberty of editing the first picture for you. Feel free to use it, after all it's mostly your wonderful work! What program do you use for edits like that? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mediumsnowman Posted September 9, 2015 What program do you use for edits like that? GIMP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
A Gallifreyan Cat Posted September 10, 2015 OK. Nice. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
woofmcmoose Posted September 10, 2015 Awesome micro spaceships! I had some free time this evening and took the liberty of editing the first picture for you. Feel free to use it, after all it's mostly your wonderful work! Nice, Thanks! That's neater than I would have ever managed from an 800px wide image! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
