Making a Vogon Spaceship from Hitch-Hiker's Guide To the Galaxy

[Gondor]

The ships are described as yellow, slab-like and as big as office blocks in the book, which is to say big, but not unimaginably so.

In the TV series they had an inverted triangular cross-section which made them rather resemble aircraft carriers.

In the film (which I and many others regard as unsatisfactory to say the least), they ignored the yellow and made them like literal grey office blocks.

Unsatisfactory is being rather polite.

[Weaver]

So anyway, what do we think of the guy's model?

I think it's pretty good, and a great example of scratch-bashing/found-object modelling.

I've been thinking about how I'd do a Vogon ship: I'm leaning towards taking more direct cues from a bulldozer, but it's a fine balancing act between capturing the right vibe and being too on-the-nose.

[Mossie]

Some great old-skool kitbashing and greebling. Definitely looks Vogon-y, big and most importantly, ugly.