freighter top port
freighter starboard top2
freighter starboard top3
freighter top2
freighter as shuttle
freighter basecoat1
freighter basecoat2
freighter basic bottom
freighter basic construction2
freighter basic construction
freighter body
freighter bottom2
freighter bottom closeup2
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freighter nose
freighter nude aft2
freighter nude aft
freighter nude nose
freighter painted side
freighter painted top
This started off as a water tank off an electric floor mop. I tentatively decided it would be the typical anthropomorphic head-body-arms shape, much like 1999's The Seeschildkroete ("Sea Turtle"). Instead of wings I wanted fairly substantial arms. I had used parts of several "Incentive Spirometry" devices my friends had the misfortune of needing for a while. I had robbed them of the air chambers for other ships but still had the frames. They made perfect arms for the engines. At this point I could have stopped basic construction, leaving me with a rough-and-tumble Next Gen shuttle. Instead, I again used a birdfeeder as a nose, same as I did for the Scorpio six years ago. After that, it was just fill-in the blanks with parts, painting, and a rough semblance of commercial markings. Way too much smoke (ink in Future) in the front of the cargo pod got partially mitigated with light-gray dry-brushing.
Don't ask me where the cargo doors are, though.
