Mech's Stupendous Shipyard

[Mechworks]

Much like on the Frames board, this is a place to put both my (massive) backlog and to have all my ships in one place. future builds will be getting their own threads in addition to an entry here.

note that Microspace is definately my first love when it comes to Lego, so expect plenty of funtimes.

[Mechworks]

First off, some Free Colony forces:

"The Task Force will advance."
Free Deron Militia


"Fire! FIRE!" "-NCOMI*KSSSSSSHH*" "-Full evasive! Redline the drives!"
Lancer Light Frigate


"Targets locked, shots away. defense A is engaging hostile frames."
Defender Heavy Frigate


"Missiles away! preparing to disengage spiral at mark charlie;"
Harbinger Missile Cruiser


"All strike packages launched. Tracking incoming rail fire, vector shift ten degrees port eight degrees keel..."
Cyclops Carrier

[Mechworks]

Boreas Imperial Navy


Necromancer Assault Carrier


Duhallan Heavy Cruiser


Banshee Heavy Frigate


Poltergeist Light Frigate

[Mechworks]

Heavy Fleet


Light Fleet


Cathedral Dreadnought


Monolith Command Ship


Tower Battleship


Spire Battleship


Monument Support Cruiser


Obelisk Heavy Frigate


Turret Frigate

The Outsiders

[Mechworks]

"IF LENIN COULD SEE US NOW!"


Современный Destroyer


Акула Missile Cruiser


Декабрь Heavy Carrier


Киров Battlecruiser

New Petrovitchgrad: Long Live the Revolution!

[Mechworks]

If you will not join... then die.


Needleship


Siege Cruiser


Multi-beam Frigate

The Kadashi

[Mechworks]

Sum Ijadi:


Raiding Fleet


Goltan Heavy Carrier


Keltar Battleship


Bali Skirmisher Frigate


Taran Assault Frigate


Tzar Supercarrier ALL the Black Dice!


Sultan Battlecruiser


Battlecruiser Squadron someone is about to have a Bad Time.

[Vitoria]

Fantastic, the Raiding Fleet is my favorite!

[Omniscient Frog]

These are all incredible, and I'm amazed at how diverse/distinct the styles of each fleet are from each other.

Also, I have to ask, how do you get that neon glow effect in your renders?

[Mechworks]

These are all incredible, and I'm amazed at how diverse/distinct the styles of each fleet are from each other.

Also, I have to ask, how do you get that neon glow effect in your renders?

Emissive lighting. has its own section in the 'lighting' tab of mecabricks' free renderfarm, and you can configure emissive materials in pretty much any decent 3D modeling program.

developing a distinctive style is about 40-50% of the work that goes into any given force, really. common coloration, similar design elements, and consistent overall shaping are the three keys of successful faction design. for example for the Outsider them I just went with some simple guidelines- horizontal symmetry, taller than wide/long in the main body, and vaguely cephalopodic with hints of Gothic, plus an all-black color sceme with trans neon green highlights. then I pretty much just played around with the various tenticlicular parts until I got something interesting.

[TheMugbearer]

When I saw the Soviet fleet I had the Soviet March from Red Alert 3 spring to my mind immediately, because of the sheer scale of absurdity (not in a negative way, mind) of the concept.