Competition #13 - Corsair970

[Corsair970]

Well I Started off in a craze, and ended up with three different ideas... However I wasn't extremely happy with any of them. They had some really good points, but there were some things stopping me from doing each one.

I've now got a better one, but I'll post them all if someone thinks it was better than it sounded

Idea#1
The basis was an idea I got a few days ago. A fighter (for space) that was a massive cannon/railgun with an engine in the back and swooping wings on top. The idea for the carrier was sleak curved 'bows' repeated that angle open and tons of fighters pop out.

I liked the idea, but I'm not too sure on the designs, couldn't come up with something that made it look anywhere as good as it did in my mind's eye.


Idea#2
I started looking at other things for reference and due to too much 40k influence as a child I had to look at Battlefleet Gothic. I got the idea to have an Ork hulk. The Orks are fairly primitive and tend to scrap build massive ships, surround them in force fields of sorts and launch into space, the idea is that they're bound to hit rock sometime. So I was thinking on making a missive hulk that has a break away as it's minor ship, sounds fun and give me a lot of room to move away from copyrights and established artwork, but not exactly what I feel like doing.

Idea#3
Least original, pretty much just copy the 40k Battlefleet Gothic 'Adeptus Mechanacius' (doubt that's the right spelling) ships. Problem is I don't know if it's okay for the competition and even if it would be I'd feel like cheating or something anyway.

Idea#4 - current idea
Seems like all spaceship ideas come from the air or sea designs of old-or new. Well what if we get out there and everything falls to a situation similar to tank warfare.

Attacking with small agile and fast ships became useless due to the up-armoring and up-gunning of large ships, heavier, longer ranged ships that could survive better came into favor. Advances in both targeting and jamming forced actual engagement into WWII style tank battles.

I figured this might be an original idea, and I have to say I love tanks, who doesn't? Turning them from tracked metal bricks to spaceships will be interesting otherwise they'll just look like tanks floating around with a black background.


I'm now pretty bent on #4 so I'll start doing some real concepts.

I have a question, I've got a capital ship, then I have the more generic fighter, but there's also some other support ships I was thinking of doing. Can they count or am I strictly limited to two. And if it's a no, then can I have a large ship, small ship and support ships for them? Kinda liked the idea of tons of tiny interceptors buzzing around the capital ships maybe not in my last idea but in case I do a different idea I was just wondering.

Now if that was far to boring, here's a few random doodles while thinking and some 'thinking in 3D'





Now that I'm pretty sure I know what I'm doing off to make some real concepts.