Thanks for the compliments, all. Just wait until I post the concept pic I drew before I started modelling... (I need a scanner...)
Originally posted by KARMA
very good but
i don't like the diagonal bottom spikes
I don't at the moment either.
I had to rush out of the house, and I wanted to post what I had done so far, so...
I'm toying with putting either different mechanisims at the end of each diagonal leg, or having them end in round landing platforms, ala that Vasudan installation whose name I forget.
Originally posted by KARMA
the sphere need some work in my opinion, on the textures mainly, i don't like them, probably some less "casual" texture may be better, for example a texture with mostly horizontal lines and with some "elements" on it (for example little rings with windows/lights, bespin style, or maybe an "hydroponic garden" if you want a civilian structure )
Again, agreed. The problem is that I made the sphere a geosphere, not your standard everything-comes-to-a-point-at-the-poles sphere. Which means that I'm essentially limited to a repeating texture like I have now, or going all the way and making my own UVW map (which is, at the moment, far beyond my know-how). I definitely want
something with the dome to change before I call it "complete".
Originally posted by KARMA
i like the yellow tech parts hidden in the rock, but i find them too "regular", maybe a secondary docking bay(with maybe the possibility to fly INSIDE the asteroid 
;7), a couple of panoramic windows, some little structures could improove the whole thing
Nahh, I'm not gonna make this one have internal guts unless I'm
really bored one day.
Besides, there's no reason for it to have that. It has a hangar and few docking platforms / arms, no need to go overboard.
And it's the regularity of the yellow parts that I liked, actually - shows that there's an internal structure running thoughout the whole asteroid.
Originally posted by KARMA
A docking platform could be used also at the base of the sphere: make the sphere diameter little smaller so to create a little horizontal area between the sphere and the vertical area, and work on this area to make a little platform
Nahh, the dome stays. Like I said above, I have docking platforms coming out of the sides - those arm thingys.
Originally posted by ZylonBane
Very cool model, but as per your stated purpose, it looks more like it exists in spite of the asteroid, not because of it.
Hmmm... I see what you mean. On one hand, it's not like the station engineers would hesitate to build more superstructure far beyond the original asteroid boundaries if the need arose. On the other hand, ummmm..... yeah.
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
The second model is better but, as the Bane™ said, it's still not quite right - what I think he means is that there's too much base in too small an asteroid. It looks not so much like the base was built in an asteroid to take advantage of said rock, but that the rock is there because it was in the way.
Solution - more rock, less base, Bodecia style 
Again, hmmm.
I'm toying with removing those bottom four diagonal legs alltogether. Opinions?
Originally posted by CP5670
The current style might work nicely if the base is supposed to be hidden though, since it looks like bits of asteroid were sort of pasted onto the installation to camouflage it.
There is already that beam weapon research base hidden away insode an asteroid - far better than anything I could do. This ain't supposed to be hidden in the asteroid, just incorporating it.
