Author Topic: [ARES app, but WIP] Salvager Shuttle - 615 bricks!  (Read 2032 times)

Hurray, look! I got a project finished! It took serious dedication (not really), and long hours (maximum of five) to build this ship.

It's a Salvager Shuttle! It's purpose is to find broken stuff in space and take it somewhere to turn it into stuff that makes new ships.

Or ship machinery, of course.

Anyways, like I mention pretentiously in the title, it only uses 906 bricks. I tried my best to not go overboard with brick intensiveness but still include good quality.

Oh yeah and I forgot to mention I've never ever built a ship before. I never knew before this how to build a ship, and I still don't think I fully understand how to make a good one.

But it still looks good, right?

First off, the front. I put a lot of effort into the front of the shuttle.


I have a special love for slanted window bricks. It just completes the roosterpit.


Hey look, a little room! That's the roosterpit, alright. With the non-linear controls and whatnot.



How about the sides?
This is my favorite side just because it doesn't have an awkward airlock jutting out of the side.


And here's the butt of the shuttle, glory and all to the thrusters. Magic buggers, I tell you what.


I don't know how to build an airlock so I just built one. I hope it isn't too far-fetched or stupid.


Now here's the bottom, I wanted a cool design like that on the bottom that a ship I built with legos in real life has, minus the multicolored pieces.

I really like how the bottom turned out. At the start, it looked really bland. Now there's a better reason to stare at the underside of the shuttle!


The top used to be really flat until a certain somebody told me that it needed more depth. He didn't really describe what he meant at first so I threw a bunch of ramps on the top. It's better than it was before.



So you might be wondering what the heck that box is on the back. Why, that's none other than the salvaged items safety deposit box!
It's a bunch of broken junk that was probably found floating in space.



Entering the next room is the entrance to the airlock, and a sort of living room. Since these shuttles are too small for any actual living quarters, the owners of the shuttle are tasked with furnishing any room they please to make their dreary surrounding a little more cozy.


I do not know what's in that small box exactly.


Next up is the roosterpit. A bit of controls (and working guns!), a picture and a potted flower and a pipeline.



I do hope that this gets me into ARES, but if it does or not doesn't change the fact of how fun it was building the thing. I guess if it's not accepted as an app, it was still worth a shot.

I had a good time making it, and to me, it turned out better than I had expected. And, for my first ship ever, I'd say I did good.


edit: I forgot to clarify that I'd like feedback in order to improve upon the application !!
« Last Edit: August 13, 2012, 08:45:21 PM by IkeTheGeneric »

Pretty good, could use less blue.


Pretty good, could use less blue.

But blue is my favorite color ;-;

Exterior is bad in my opinion.
Thrusters are to small.
Box does not look spacey.
Interior roof is bad.
The broken space junk and it being uneven makes it worse.
7/10 good job. But not ARES worthy is what i think.

looks really chunky and not in a good way


roof needs a lot of work
hull is very cubular <- made that up

roof needs a lot of work

I need to know how though :(

It's like that because I don't know how it should look


hull is very cubular <- made that up

Yeah it kinda is. I'll try fixing that.

And do I have to keep it under 1000 bricks, or just watch how many bricks I use?

we don't care and I need to remove that from the OP

Alright, I'll try to address some of the criticism said
« Last Edit: August 13, 2012, 07:52:52 PM by IkeTheGeneric »

really cute interior, but the outside is boxy

In an effort to make it less boxy I accidentally cut the brickcount from 906 to 683 and didn't really drastically change much.

Wat

The broken space junk......makes it worse.
because space junk is supposed to look good, right?

I'd say nay.
It's not like it's bad or something, there's just a little too much room for improvement.
For starters, the protruding airlock you hate so much seems to protrude for no good reason :|