Hermes gets a face lift?

I had an idea that I would redo Andy Tubb's great concept the "Hermes" So I started out with the engines.
As I have been working on this I have also been recording it for a instructional tutorial on large surface greebleing, For 3d palace...  Enjoy.

Small Details...

I started the fine detail placement on the drive train as well as started to block out the Comm gear.  It's getting close!

more details...

Work continues....

More Detail Work

I forgot to post these the other day... Some shots of the details starting to take shape.  Once I'm done with the admin stuff for palace, I can get back to this.

Work continues...

The first shot is self explanitory, the second shot is how the cockpit looks with the fuel tank attached, the third shot is the details hidden by the fuel tank.

It's a balance issue...

What I did was rotate the drive housing and the power plant around 180 degrees and move the legs forward. Then I had to adjust the height of the cockpit's support to make sure i cleared the legs. Hopefully this should do it.

The cockpit takes shape...

I spent this morning trying to get a shape for the cockpit that I'm happy with...