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Realtime Star Wars Skipray blastboat

Low poly model of my take on the Skipray Blastboat, a ship design from the '90s Star Wars expanded universe/Legends. I always liked the top view, but wasn't a fan of the way the front wings and fuselage were integrated, so I made a slightly lighter-armed model with a lower profile and a more aerodynamic shape. I also swapped out the turret for one based on the Imperial troop transport as seen in the Mandalorian, changed some details to resemble the lambda shuttle a bit, and kitbashed on parts of a Star Trek miranda class' phasers for the wing cannons, because the original design reminded me of it and I thought it would be a very ILM thing to do. In the '90s, they were also usually brown, so I made both brown and gray versions. It would be fun to see some Legends ships like this show up in Andor!

Only made a low poly version (7.4k tris) and then did all textures in Substance Painter (one 2k texture sheet). Images here are either from Blender or Sketchfab. The bit of writing on the brown version is using AurekFonts' 'Outer Rim AF' font. Another low poly ship to fill out my fleet! I believe the original concept for this ship was by Doug Chiang, though for proportions I followed the top view from the '90s Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels.

If you want to see an amazingly detailed model that is more faithful to the original '90s design, check out Ansel Hsiao's:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/3zm6E

Brown pirate version and light gray Imperial/original paint job.

Brown pirate version and light gray Imperial/original paint job.

Turntable

Storytelling shot inspired by Angelos Karderinis' style

Storytelling shot inspired by Angelos Karderinis' style

Sketchfab version

Tried a super low res pixellated version for a bit of nostalgia.

Tried a super low res pixellated version for a bit of nostalgia.

Each one is 7.4k tris

Each one is 7.4k tris