Space Pod

Fly me to the moon

This is a re-work of an earlier spaceship (space fighter) that I originally created in Carrara as part of a set of spaceships, one of which is on the re-model in blender to-do list.

In this re-work I decided to have it not be a fighter this time so in the comparison pictures in the galleries the missing parts were guns on the original model.

The craft has not only rear facing engines but also has engines on the sides and at the very front on the little pod thing. They are positioned and angled in a way to provide a wide rage of rotational movements, similar to the movement style of B5’s Starfury , momentum is only meant to come from the rear engines though, so to cancel the direction you’re traveling in you would need to use the directional thrusters to point the craft in the opposite direction and then use the main engines.

The central pod is also meant to be detachable and act as an escape pod if the engine section goes wrong, in the latest version of this ship I have also added a fuel tank at the back of the craft.

For the newly rendered image I was going to have it against a star-scape but as I was playing around with background designs I was taken with this starburst/explosion pattern, as it gave me a kind of Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe) era which I though was kind of cool.