Okay, so more than one person has asked me about the textures and lighting on this ship, so rather than try to explain it all right now, here's some hands-on training for you.

This zip file contains a version of the Shitty Death with its textures intact, but only very basic geometry, plus the scene file that has been used to create the renders on all the previous pages (converted from LW[6] down to LW5.6 format).

Load this baby up and have a look at how the lighting and textures work together, then go away and get modelling, and let's get some more ships being built so that the Shitty Death can take someone on in combat!

I'm planning to write a short tutorial on how to create all the nurnies, greeblies and other details that encrust this ship... more on this later.