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Imaginary Starships

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[–] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Phunter@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

They look a lot like Salvage Corvettes.

[–] akhenaten0@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks very Chris Foss with those stripes!

[–] ChamrsDeluxe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Looks like ships from "Home World"

[–] akhenaten0@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I saw Warhammer Orks first, then discovered Foss later, and realized, oh, that’s where checkerboards and stripes got popular.

[–] Crul@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And Foss' patterns are probably inspired by (WWI) Dazzle camouflage (wikipedia):

Example
source: Dazzle On The Foggy Mersey - Anderson Images

The search for "chris foss" "dazzle" on Google shows some restuls, but I haven't dig too much.