K0M-B1 - Worldstrider

I tried bashing together some normals to try to add little accents to the form of the Kombi as well as playing with the colours a little to see how they worked. I didn't like the orange in my sketchup as much as I found it to feel much more "service vehicle - y", so I decided to go with blue. I may change my mind down the line but for now I'll block these colours in and I'll adjust them on the fly once I'm satisfied with the composition.

I noticed a lot of previous contest entries used their displacement scaling in creative ways and since I had no experience with this I wanted to play around to see how I could use it.
I quickly learned that amping up the tesselation scale really makes the model quite wonky. I noticed that texturing boosted tesselation areas proved to be difficult so I opted on boosting it on the tires to make them look like heavy duty, ATV type tires that would be perfect for traversing the rocky, lunar landscape.

Right off the bat I decided to lay down some general colours, shapes, and materials just to get a better idea of things and qualities that I liked as well as elements that seemed to work well with one another.

I noticed spaceships like a lot of white/greys/silvers for the primary colour and blacks/yellows/brass/silver colours for accents. I didn't want the entire thing to be primarily white, so I wanted to add either a blue or orange as a secondary to make things more interesting.

If colours were introduced it was usually oranges for anything Martian related and blues/whites/silvers for most things Lunar related. I started with orange but I thought it looked too much like a service vehicle so I switched over to this blue as a secondary colour. 

I like it so far so I'll keep fleshing it out and see where I end up! :)

I painted over some screenshots to get an idea about the colours. 
I haven't decided between orange and blue as well as how much of those colours to include but I think I'll start with this and see where we end up.

I wanted to start off with a cool concept that I could build upon to add interesting story elements to the humble Kombi. I always liked space exploration so I decided to take the Kombi and turn it into a space rover.
I fell in love with this idea since I could re-skin a bunch of otherwise basic attributes of the Kombi to apply the concept to it. The Kombi's wheels could be sturdy and puffy space-wheels etc.

I also liked this concept since I could add a lot of greebles and indents to break up the general shapes the Kombi is built from. 

Now that I've got ample video and picture references I think I'm going to proceed by blocking out colours and general points of interest around each face of the Kombi.

Let's see how this goes!