Retro Starship Design

Go ahead, scare the locals.



The idea here is a company that makes space ships with a retro feel, such as flying saucers and rockets, sort of like using modern technology to make a car that looked like a Model-T, but really had a V-8 engine, air bags and the whole works.


This would be a kids space suit that would come with the ship. It has a wide array of safety features such as a padded interior, durable double layer screen (with separate mommy and daddy location devices) with heads up display and a tail that helps roll the wearer onto their side so they can get on their feet better. It also has the ability for game systems so should there be more than one child outside they can entertain them selves.

Keel Hauled

These are sketches of a corridor named the Keel as it is a large corridor that runs the length of the ship along the bottom.


This picture shows where the corridor goes and little bit of what it's used for, easy access to back up systems as well as the main corridor used to move equipment to and from the engines.


This image I was working out the shape of the gates that hold many of the cables in place.

Space case

Though I haven't been able to make as much in 3D as I would like recently, I have been able to draw quite a bit while on my breaks at work.


In these drawings I'm trying to refine the profile of the ship so the aft of the ship (on the right) looks interesting. I've also elongated the ship when compared to the first drawing at the bottom of the page.


Here I added the upper section and lowered it closer to the rest of the ship trying to give it a more stream lined look.


This is an older picture where I first liked how the aft section of the ship looked. I like the direction I've gone with the ship as a whole since this picture. I still need to work on how parts line up from the side.


This is the first picture of this ship that I drew years ago. The idea was that the ship was found abandoned by its alien builders and found by humans. As such there are a lot of features and systems that the crew doesn't have access to because of a language barrier. The weapons being one of the systems and thus "after market" weapons were added later. I have mixed feelings about leaving that point in the ships background story though.