Albatross I70 Martian Aero-racer

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The Terra Industrial Corporation, on of humanities foremost tech juggernauts, is now joining the FCAI, (la Federation de Course Aero International).

Its entry, the Albatross I70 anti gravity high speed racing craft.

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Terra Industrial also manufactures and produces a range of civilian/military space vessels:

   
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Role playing aside.

I spent almost a full day working on the Albatross from scratch, although I haven't used any FCAI stickers or sponsor logos, the idea behind that is that the model livery is as production default would have it. I also decided to use a corporation from my Almera Universe as the manufacturer because it gives the craft a bit more, authenticity in my opinion. 

For the most part, everything is relatively simple, theres more rule-of-cool in the Albatross than a lot of my models, I also considered using a variant of the Galeron Mazeraki (the right image link above) as the racer but decided against that. Ultimately I think the albatross is a huge step forward in my design process and my abilities, I had the chance to try out a lot of techniques that I have learned lately and I think it came together well.

For those of you curious about the "FCAI" heres the official contest write up
Martian Aeroracer Challenge2