I usually post in WIP because things aren't done, because they are way too complex, but this was a simple one:

Rendered with the in-sketchup Maxwell Fire, nothing fancy. Just a flat-pack coffee table. It is meant to be sturdy, look nice (hopefully as nice in pine), store stuff below, and accommodate most puzzles. The top is 42"x25", minus ears.

The biggest idea is that it is simple enough that I might be able to make it. That being said, anybody want to lend me their laser cutter? I hate making imprecise cuts, and as I don't practice that is all I do.

Some more detail, the reactor is based on a non sustained reaction idea and being a little over a meter across would put the Skunkworks to shame with their "tiny" trailer-sized reactor they are working on, if it worked.

Two neutrons are raced around the track and then collide as femto-second laser pulses hit the same spot. The inner layer collects the waves of energy. The second is magnetic shielding and the third is secondary heat shielding if the first layer fails.

This is only half of the reactor. Lots of components used and manipulated.

I solved this very one in a few minutes. Needless to say it would take me longer to make it in Sketchup.

Liam,
I am planning on going to a level of detail I am familiar with in a large complex system. I work at a telescope so just the ideas of separate but interworking large systems seems reasonable. And I am all too familiar with single board computers in crates and such. Probably not as detailed as that tank someone did a little while ago.

hellnbak,
Here are a small picture and a slightly larger one. These are just using the free maxwell render as I work. I will probably go for a better renderer for the final product and those will be big...no huge, so just hang in there.

Thanks for the encouragement! No artisan as of yet, I did buy the tool but the shield generator is actually just using follow-me, though it was a beast to clean up. Since then I have found that if you make the path that the follow-me needs to traverse one polyline then it gets around smoothly and hardly needs any clean-up which would have saved at least 30 minutes with the shield generator.

A bit of down time and travel, but here is the detailed front area. From left to right are the sensors and jammers, the gyro for maneuvering (Destin from smarter every day on youtube inspired that idea.), and the computer bank. The computers still need to be populated and the support structure, cooling, power and data lines need to be designed. On a twelve meter ship I am getting down into millimeter detail sometimes, this is probably why larger projects don't get very far. Practice makes perfect, right?

It looks like it still there, just directly behind the column.

Thanks for the comments!

Here is a shield generator with waveguides out to the projectors. I am getting detailed....

@unknownuser said:

Do you know this one ?
(Bi language)

I know a simpler one based on the crane-base.

There are half a dozen or more in the warehouse, but it still is interesting. I started with a few drawings and a lot of movie shots. Had to decide between a lot of variants, so this is its own variant. Also going really internally detailed so I might be able to set up a scene in a hangar with a few in varying states of dis-assembly.

That is awesome! Sim City has to be one of my all time favorite games.