Wednesday 6 May 2009

A retro styled Deep Space Mining Base, depicting the Vernier - DSEV (Deep Space Exploratory Vehicle) Mining Rig off to harvest and break down asteroids for raw materials for local manufacture. Asteroids are an amazing resource of water, rare metals and iron. A perfect stepping stone towards the stars




Designing the Vernier Rig


The secondary aspect was to design and provide a rapid mockup of a hero vehicle, in this instance we design a Deep Space Exploratory Vehicle (DSEV) Mining Rig named Vernier, based on the Vernier Thrusters used in high altitude adjustments.



The Initial designs were thus:



Once the side profile was mapped out and designed, it was a relatively straightforward affaird to paint in a front side profile and apply a quick colour pass.

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