Star Fox 2 Mothership Re-imagined.
I don't know what it is about this old game that that still has me re-doing models from it. Anyway, this time around I remade the mothership that appears in the game's cutscenes. As there really isn't any publicly known reference material for this design, everything had to be based on what was visible in game. This being the case, a lot of the finer details on the model are based on versions of the ship that appeared in later games in the franchise. Suffice it to say that I ended up spending a few hours looking old screenshots and renders from games that I hadn't thought about in years. Quite the nostalgia trip, as it turned out.
The mothership, in low orbit over the planet Corneria, much as it appeared in the cutscene at the beginning of the game.
The light gray/dark gray color scheme was somehinng of an homage to the original design. On the original model, I suspect the subtle variation was intended to make it's edges more visible on screne. Here though, the look is simply decorative.
I made only two notable physical alterations to the design compared to the original: I moved the engine down from the dorsal pod to between the hangars, and I rotated the fins on the upper hull 90 degrees to turn them into winglets.
The hull detailing is based on the look of the ships in Star Fox Zero, while the new engine is based on the engines from the Star Fox Assault version of the Great Fox.
The logo on the hangar door is an extrapolation of the sprite that was used there in the game. The emblem in the center is based one one which was used in Star Fox Adventures.
