a thumbnail gone awry for this weeks industrial design of the week
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this week's topic is EPIC (and i can use that word in this case)
hope the start of school won't kill my time too much, but i certainly will have less digital thumbnails and brainstorms as im moving that workload into my sketchbook to fool around with during class
anyway... not looking forward to redrawing this in painter X_X
speak now or forever hold your peace
the write-up was vague on faster than light speed travel so i kinda went for a general "lost of big engines = fast" thing... i was contemplating external fuel tanks, but decided to keep it streamlined to some degree. so in reality i am kinda ignoring the problem
a race that takes 8 months in space would require massive amounts of fuel if said fuel had to be hauled things could start getting messy
And you're absolutely right on the fuel part!! I'd have to agree on that!! Just makes you wonder where they'd be racing to