[META/Image] Hand of Bobb's Stuff

[robkelk]

There's always the Trekkie dodge of "aztecing" the surface so it looks like individual sheets of construction material came from different manufacturing batches, or the tried-and-true "give it a fancy paint job" - but not both.

Maybe some expansion joints or flexible joins along the connection surfaces?

Navigation lights in the corners, perhaps?

I thought of suggesting corrugating the surfaces, but that might make them look too much like overgrown shipping containers... or make them look exactly like shipping containers, in which case the radio dish would look far, far too small.

(Mind you, if you use all of these ideas, you'll have a very cluttered model... so choose one or two, if you choose any.)

Edit: Upon re-reading, I see that you want these to be shipping containers. Definitely go for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrugated_galvanised_iron]the corrugated look, unless you're up for something more complex, and make the radio dish larger.
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