Space Battleship Missouri, or whatever you want to call it.

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Superb drawings Bruce!

If you fancy something a bit more Gothic - plenty of inspiration in the Warhammer 40K universe!

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It looks like an armed cathedral.
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Beautiful painting, Stuart. A great reference image. I forgot Warhammer has hybrid concepts on lock down. I remember the conversation on another thread about a dazzle camo and thought a simplified approach could work here, too.

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Maybe the black could be a star field in design?
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Such cool designs! And wow Bruce, those drawings are insanely good. Here's some more ideas.

There's always the SDF-1 from Robotech.

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Or the Battleship Yamato.

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While I think Bruce's drawings are insanely awesome, I'd like to see you preserve as much of the Missouri profile as possible as they did with the Yamato. Otherwise I don't see it as "Space Battleship Missouri"

That being said, those side blisters bristling with guns or rocket tubes would really look great.

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Duke’s right of course. Plus, Modelcrazy is so experienced with building ships that I learn from him. My reasons were - I just really love this idea and I think it’s kind of cooler if this looks different. I think dazzle camo on a spaceship is bad ass:

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You can break up the uniform color with a lot of fantastic color variations, too.

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I totally agree with the dazzle pattern too. That would rock on this (space) ship!
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Agreed.
Black and red maybe. The black with a starfield.
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