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It would sure be nice to see some more activity on the forums with people making their original creations.

The atmospheric glow is something I make by just creating a circular selection the size of the planet with feathered-edges enabled. Then I just fill that selection on a new layer underneath the planets layer. Then I add another one or two layers on top of the planet with varying levels of feathering and fill those with a brighter coloured glow to get a gradient like effect and more intense glow at the exact edges of the planet itself.

I exaggerated the RCS thrusters a lot. I usually make them a lot smaller and try to make them blend into the rest of the ship more. Here are the RCS thrusters on the Helios for example.
If you want to make it more rugged, consider more powerful internal gyros over additional rocket thrusters in space. Keep in mind though that an armored hull will considerably increase the weight of the ship.

My exhaust flames don't always have lens-flares, I just added some when painting the blue glow on yours, for no good reason.

This ship actually reminds me a little of this ship that I made a while back but never really finished. Just the front though I guess.

Here is an update with flattened canard wing tips, navigation lights, and holes for attitude control thrusters. Not much challenge time left and the real world calls so this is the challenge entry.

Challenge thread vi ... =66&t=4924

Awesome. Shame you didn't have more time to finish it. I might do my own take on a Keryx style ship some time, if you don't mind off course

Rained most of the day so not much yard work done.

You doing a ship designed for this purpose would complete the research if it is an experiment and not a study. My analysis and example create a hypothesis. Your hazardous environment freighter would be the observational data. Then see if my model fits the data.

Finis wrote:"...You doing a ship designed for this purpose would complete the research if it is an experiment and not a study. My analysis and example create a hypothesis. Your hazardous environment freighter would be the observational data. Then see if my model fits the data."

A simple "I don't mind" would have sufficed.