#SST25

2025-09-30

Here's a proper wrap-up of my builds for . Not included are numerous variants, recolors, and a whole lot of early or failed attempts. Thanks to PapaPanda (bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3on3r) for the prompts, and thanks to everyone else who participated and inspired me.

Render of most, but not quite all, of my LEGO builds for Spaceshiptember 2025. Thirty days of spaceships (and stations) at various scales, in a wide range of colors and styles, including a few scenes and bits designed for stop-motion animations. Over $575 worth of over 5100 parts, in case you ever wonder why I mostly build digitally.
2025-09-30

Day 30: Finale! I thought about just collecting all the builds I've made this month into a single render, but that seemed boring. So instead I made a variable-wing transport. Also thought about animating it but too tired—Spaceshiptember is a marathon! 😤

Render of a LEGO spaceship on a flightstand. The design has four bright pink wings and a white and medium azure fuselage, and is featured transforming between three options: wings closed, open, or swept back.
2025-09-30

Day 29: Drones. Tried a bunch of ideas on a day when I had too little time. But I'm very pleased with what I finally came up with. Zero Point uses this stealthy fighter-scale drone for both site security patrols and CAS; missiles are concealed within.

Front and back renders of a LEGO spaceship on a flight stand. The ship is a drone with a very sleek and angular design coming to a sharp point, with small winglets near the aft. It features a hinged cannon under its nose, but no other weapons are visible.

quick #SST25 doodle for day 23/28 blue/exploration one day our probe will catch that manhole cover #artpost #digitalart #sciart #spaceshiptember

drawing of a deep space probe among the stars
2025-09-29

Day 28: Exploration. I started this for day 24, but it wasn't really capturing "test flight". So I put it aside, with just the hab ring and engines done, and finished it today. This was a fun one-off, not part of my setting or to any particular scale.

Front and back renders of a LEGO spaceship on a flightstand. A more realistic design than my usual fare, very linear except from a rotatable habitat ring, and mostly in white apart from a few black or gold bits. There's also a lot more surface detail than I normally feature, intended to suggest a particularly large ship with an emphasis on function over form.
2025-09-28

Day 27: Station. Here's a static defense post for the Khuraltan Navy, with four each of main guns and point defense turrets. The initial jellyfish-like concept came to mind quickly, but actually coming up with a good design was trickier than expected.

Render of a LEGO space station flanked by two spaceships, all on flight stands. All are in dark red and bright light orange. The station is a new design, with a round top and four curved wedges underneath, opening up to reveal four multi-gun turrets giving it a near-360° field of fire.Render of a LEGO space station on a flight stand. This is a lower angle showing off the inner structure including the multi-gun turrets and the far thinner central "stalk", as it were, including four antennas pointing down, away from the main body.
2025-09-27

Day 26: Superliminal. This took a heck of a lot of work; I'm amazed I got it done in time. I took the ship design from day 18 and created a stop-motion animation, rendered out frame by frame, of it arriving from FTL travel, then disappearing once more.

2025-09-26

#SST25 Day 20: Ruins
A once prosperous station that succumbed to fascism shortly after the waking. They lasted unusually long for a fascist state, surviving almost thirty years, before attacking their neighbors and being destroyed in the resulting conflict.

#spaceshiptember #scifi #spaceship #art #3D #blender3D

A 3D render of a ruined space station with a large black and red band on it.
2025-09-25

Day 25: Lasers. Started off by looking at what transparent parts are available. I wanted a long, prominent beam, but it's difficult to join bars end to end, so much of it wound up inside the ship. Drew heavily from the wrecked ship atop this page for The Signal from Tölva (bigrobotltd.itch.io/the-signal). Art by Ian McQue if I'm not mistaken. I also made an alternate build, inspired by this piece (bsky.app/profile/macspace.bsky).

Front and back renders of a LEGO spaceship on a flight stand. The blue and yellow ship is split down the middle, a long red laser beam emanating from between the upper and lower sections.Front and back renders of a LEGO spaceship on a flight stand. The blue and yellow ship has an asymmetric design, with a long red laser beam emanating from one side.
2025-09-24

Day 24: Test Flight. Struggled for ideas—shelved one for a later prompt, while another was too boring. But I'm glad I pushed through, because I love how this turned out. Exposed tubes and wires don't suit my setting, but I'd like to do more like this.

Front and back renders of a LEGO spaceship on a flight stand. The ship has a spaceplane design in white over a black underside, with sharply angled winglets. The engines are exposed revealing wires, tubes, and power coils that glow in bright light orange.

so I started this #SST25 drawing from day 20's prompt ruins but it ended up being more about spaceship debris than any intact spaceships hopefully it's still in the spirit of #spaceshiptember #art #artsky #artpost #digitalart #painting #scenery #イラスト #illustration

drawing of a lander can landing in a ruined wasteland littered with spaceship debris from an ancient battle, among them one mysterious installation remains functional
2025-09-23

Day 23: Blue. Sometimes it's fun to see what parts are available in a given color and experiment—here I started with those large wedges near the aft. The design shifted from cephalopod to cetacean, and flipped front-to-back a few times in the process.

Render of a LEGO spaceship resembling a whale, with a rounded form that's dark blue on the top and sides and bright light blue underneath, save for a white stripe on the underside near the prow.Front and back renders of a LEGO spaceship on a flight stand. It has a rounded form resembling a whale—dark blue on the top and sides and bright light blue underneath, save for a white stripe on the underside near the prow.
2025-09-22

Day 22: Fire! This one started off with me trying to find a convincing gunfire effect. I put that on a turret that went unused as it was too big, and instead wound up making another mercenary/pirate ship that doubles as a ground attack aircraft. Naturally this one is meant to accompany the fighter from day 17.

Front and back renders of a LEGO spaceship on a flight stand. This aerospace fighter has wings with straight leading edges and swept-back trailing edges. It has a dark tan and yellow color scheme, with a large cannon under the nose, a missile on each wing, and eight bombs for close air support when in atmosphere.

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