Phase 2: Now Comes the Fun Part.

[Brickmaster]

Now that the outer extremities have been completed; it was time to get alittle more ambitious, and finally start up the brunt of the creation. The main body.

Now, this was no easy start. Everyone knows the front has to be cool looking, or atleast intimidating! I was stuck on the very front for quite some time, but I eventually got it. I then slowly began to patch on other parts, and along the way, remade parts to fit. It was no easy feat, but it came together. All of my effort has been poured in so far, and I'm not even half way done with it! So of course, much more to come, and now finally for, the pictures...

Heres everything piled together. Only did this for the first 3 pictures.

Long ship is long.

Being so large there's obviously alot to point out and talk about. I will get to these parts and details later, in more up close pictures. I will point out the watermark of the ship, however. Yellow and black checkerboard, much?

Yep.

Now that the other stuff is off, heres a little profile shot. This thing is much bigger than the pictures make it seem. MUCH.

Maybe this can prove my point alittle It's about a foot just to the missile pods alone. I should also mention, this thing is already getting heavy! While trying to hold it for building, your arms get tired!

Now afew closeups. Here you see the takeoff thrusters on the side, and part of the missile pods, with a claw encoating around them.

Here we can see the added tentacle and batwing flare. More of these later. Aswell as the purple marker up front.

Now heres something fun; a huge black bionicle mask! I think this thing looks awesome. Although a pain to build with, I think this turned out great. Heavily worth it.

Not to mention the huge ole' gun sticking out of the mouth. I also wrapped a trans red visor on the inside of it. Behind this, there is alittle surprise, a cool little feature..

Gasp! It lights up?

Yessum it does.

Dun-dun-duuunnn..

Press the technic thingy and.. yep. Baby lights up. Ok, enough with that.

Here be the missile pod. I had to rebuild this thing afew times just to get it right. It was worth it, though. I really like how this came out, claws, smooth, and conforms to the slopes, with some blasters on the side.

Heres another shot of the batwings and the tentacles. There are also some tubes and such by the large mask.

The pillars coming out the sides was one of my first ideas on how to integrate the mask. I think it came out somewhat well?

Here you can see some of the actual slopeyness of the ship. And first off I will say: Yes, there will be more added to the bottom, to give it more of a hull.

I would just like to point out the unusual slopes here, however.

Heres why this is still a Wip. No interior, and just the tip of the iceberg has been built of this thing. Much, much more to come.

Here's the utterly simple but effective mechanism for the lighting.

Now.. I hope you all can see I am serious about this capitol ship/ cruiser now!

I hope this entry brings in afew new commentors ( ) as I want your guyses criticisms too! Whether you're not a space junkie, you great builders are still, great builders, which, as fate would be it, give great advice and ideas! Which, even more so, I am open to!

That being said, this just another installment. I hope you enjoyed viewing, atleast somewhat, this thing is already pretty much my prized work, taking up hours of effort and time. That's why this new section took so long; It's not easy work with one of these things!

Thank you much for viewing, and so much for any comments

Until next time.

~Mark.

[DJ Force]

Wow! Just Wow!

[TheBricker]

Wow... this thing is... huge. I've already saw some pics of the wings, the bridge and the engine

on Brickshelf and thought that this thing is giong to be a really great spaceship .

I can't criticize because nothing is there to criticize...

It's simply great

I'm looking forward to the next update^^.

[Asuka]

A very smooth work.... I like especially the way how your bridge fits to the well integrated and indeed delighted mask with its neat

mouth gun. The twin peaked front works also very fine. Maybe those Batwings´re a bit too much and even a little distracting, but

that´s just personal taste. That sloped section around the bottom of your ship looks good too. The tentacles´re a nice touch, and

the rocket bays´re well done.... again, the front claws´re perhaps a bit too much. Maybe they would work better as some kind

of eagle-claw-like landing gear....

[zero1312]

Wow! Just Wow!

HEY!! That's my line!

[Sir Dano]

I think you just made it worth sticking around EB...

[DJ Force]

HEY!! That's my line!

My deepest appologies for stealing borrowing that unique line

[Trexxen]

I can't write a full post about this at the moment, but rest assured that I will get one in after school. However, I couldn't let this part wait until then - Wow. This is AMAZING.

~Trexxen

[Lasse D]

Big preformed pieces, wheels for engines and Bionicle weapons are normally things I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole when building large space ships, but I absolutely love this one Brickmaster. Good job.

The combination of these elements and the big sculpted parts somehow work really well together.

[Plural]

Awesome. Simply awesome. Can't wait for part 3.

[Brickmaster]

Thank you so much for your guyses comments! Sorry I am late at responding, been a busy week in real lifes for me

DJ and Zero: Thank you very much!

Sir Dano: There is pleanty sticking around EB for! But I am glad you see this so highly

Bricker: Thank you for this comment! My aim in the end is to have a large, bionicle filled, flowing ship, I still have some work to do, but I am glad it is already somewhat apparent!

Asuka: Thank you for the criticism; I appreciate this! What do you suggest I should try? Would filling in the holes of the eagle claws with silver 1x1 dots help atall? I want some sort of bionicle around there, I will have to work on this, any suggestions are appreciated and can be tryed.

Trexx: Thank you for what you wrote so far!

Lasse: Ah, just what I was going for! My new style seems to be trying to integrate otherwise unusable pieces to give them, a somewhat good use. Or show there is some use for them. Hit the nail on the head at one of my main goals for this ship Thank you; I will try to keep the shape flowing.

Plural: Simple comment but gets the point across, thank you for this! I am however, unsure of how long until part 3. Recently I started filling in the bridge with abit of detail, and doing some finer work; It may be alittle before major progress is made on the ship again, but by all means, stay tuned, as I will get to it. Sometime

Thank you all so much for posting, I very much appreciate it, I am glad you enjoyed!

And I have a question of preference; I am wondering what would be a good color for the interior of the ship? Should it be something clean, like white? Red? Orange? Some color combo?

[Plural]

For a colour combination you could try black and yellow. If it's done well it would look pretty good and it would go with your motif.

[Wilhelm screamer]

Wow, this reminds me closely of the The Battleship Halberd from "Super smash Bros. BRAWL!".

I also love the SNOTy missile pods

[Asuka]

Asuka: Thank you for the criticism; I appreciate this! What do you suggest I should try? Would filling in the holes of the eagle claws with silver 1x1 dots help atall? I want some sort of bionicle around there, I will have to work on this, any suggestions are appreciated and can be tryed.

I have no problem with the holes or the Bionicle stuff. Um.... I´ve no problems with your impressive construction at all.

Blending Bionicle with System´s a fine thing.... what I´m talking about´re simply personal preferences, and you´ve to

stay true to your own likings. I personally like the use of such special parts as decorative structures rather going hand in

hand with some functional aspects of a MOC, if possible, but that´s really only personal taste.

Well, for the ornamental aspects of your ship here, since it´s using some strong shapes I would say that less is indeed more,

sometimes.... Your black tentacles, as an example, look pretty good incorporated to the ship´s structure, while these silver

claws look a little more like some put on addition that distracts from the clear lines of the rocket bay.

They could just work better on a different place and for a different purpose, IMHO that is....

If you really need some ornaments for your rocket bays, perhaps something smaller, shield-like and in a darker color scheme could fit....

Or some kind of target arrays....

Edited May 17, 2008 by Asuka

[Dark Sword Ragnarok]

This is officially friggin' sweet! Also, thanks again for reccomending the terrain crawler. Great set, until the pilot had a "seizure" and "crashed" into my floor and exploded. Now it is halfway to becoming a dropship that will be about the same length as one of the wings on the Aramanth.

[Brickmaster]

- Need Suggestions! - What should the rest of the length of the ship contain? I am unsure of what to put. Should I put some sort of bay doors, some open ship bay, or just close and greeb it up? Any other ideas appreciated!

and for responses..

Plural: Good idea! I will be thinking, mostly yellow now, with hints of black, such as the floor, but walls and corridors yellow. I will play around with the coordination when I get to it. Thank you!

Wil: Wow, you discovered my secret source of inspiration! This thing was the final straw to get me to finally build a big ole ship. Glad you can see the resemblance.

The rocket bays, at first, were not snot also, but on the second rebuild, I got them to look how they do now. I am quite happy with them!

Asuka: Hmm, I will have to try some other things. As what I have now are the smallest possible bionicle weapons, basically, I will have to try some other things, any parts suggestions could be tried, but I will test around with this alittle. Thank you!

Dark: Thanks for that aswell! I am glad you enjoyed your purchase. It is a very great set, without it, this build would be entirely impossible.

Thank you all! Any suggestions for what you want to see in this thing, interior wise, or even what else for the length of the ship, will be taken into consideration!

Thanks again;

- Mark

[Dark Sword Ragnarok]

I would love to see a docking bay for starfighters. Maybe with closing bay doors, like sliding ones or something?

That would be awesome.

[Lt. Col. Thok]

Very nice, very much like like Battlestar Galactica.

[Brickmaster]

Heya guys, sorry I'm late, but I've lost computer contact for awhile, moving alot of stuff around. I havent made any new progress on the ship, but thank you very much for all the comments!

I've been planning out sections in my head though - for some of the remainder of the ship, Ive kindof thought of this order; right after the missile pods, I was thinking some airlocks, then some decoration and some greebles, and then some sort of docking bay, with opening doors.

Now, the docking bay is a hard one. Should the doors be just flat? Would that look funny? How should they open? Flip, slide, fold? (Im thinking slide)

I also have noticed, other forums have the most critique on the bionicle parts - Are they really that bad?

Thanks guys :sweet:

[WarnIcarus]

I like the ship, but the bat wings and tentacles are out of place. Also, the purple wedge is lonely and the color doesn't work.

[maiq the liar]

That is just LOVELY. i tried making a Star justice capitol ship in LDD and it didn't turn out nearly as good...didn't get the bulky and powerful look i was going for...

[VBBN]

Damn thats nice! Keep up the amazing work! Will you have a ship portale like on most battle crusiers?

[Siegfried]

I completely missed this (too)! Very smart usage of that mask! I'll be looking out for an update.

[Brickmaster]

Sorry guys, it's been pretty much ages since an update. Why there hasn't been one lately is, there has been no progress lately. With summer starting that's when I get more active and such, respectively.

Most my time has been spent weightlifting and training for some triathlons. This is quite a time consuming task, and when I'm not doing these, I'm either sleeping, or with friends, or just have no energy, yet alone creativity, to build.

Mind you, I will finish it eventually. Eventually

I promise I'll make some progress soon and keep you in tune. The most I've done lately is just fill in the head bridge of the ship with some nice gadgets and a command post.

Oh, and VBBN - What do you mean by portal? Any examples perhaps?

And thank you Sinner, Maiq, and Warn, for your comments - I know the purple is out of place, It's just there for now, 'cause I love purple!

(I get so much crap for having that purple block on my creations)

'Till next time..

~Mark

Edited July 3, 2008 by Brickmaster

[Wilhelm screamer]

My suggestion is to put big internal organs in the ship to fill in large areas. You did say when you first announced the project that it was a bioship.