I wish I didn’t have to write this while I’m so frustrated, but time waits for no one. Oddly enough that’s actually the problem. More on that later, though. This is another Hipper post.

Since I don’t have any major structural changes left to make–fingers crossed–I’m honing in on the Admiral Hipper’s final color scheme. It’s basically a few muted blues with orange accents all over the place. I eliminated the ‘dull white’ linings and the nose gradient for something sharper and a bit closer to the rest of the blues on the lower hull.

I darkened the lower hull to make the whole thing look a bit less ‘animated,’ but it was so unsaturated to begin with that it almost looks like the game’s base gray now. I might wind up changing it again. A dark blue over slightly lighter blue could work, but if the contrast isn’t heavy enough it won’t have the effect I’m going for.

As an aside, I’d love it if she could have more weapons and functionality to go with her look, but 62k PCU and ~13k total blocks (without accounting for the Messers/Riders) is a lot.

So the ship’s very close to finished now. Ignoring a few things I would have to duplicate later on, I could on the first sister ship Blücher. I think it’d be a better idea to try to rebuild the Heinrich first, though. That and build at least one ship from one of the other factions. I need to get the styles nailed down sooner rather than later.

Well that’s all for now. I should have a few bits of unrelated news up by this time tomorrow.