Bosco Station 5

Floorplan
I started by sketching a rough idea of what I wanted the station to look like.
I have more plans for it beyond just this project.

Once I had the module's sketched out, I assembled them and gave them the basic shape I wanted.
The module on the far right saw significant changes, as it made sense that this station would have an adjustable space dock

Once I had the parts assembled, I started to add more details to each module. Here is the sleeping module, with it's first pass and second pass of details before being textured.

For the habitation pod, I built a scafolding and plating around the outside, then I textured it. For all the airlocks I use a similar texture.

The progress of the solar panel was particularly straightforward. Substance Painter does lots of the heavy lifting here, I generate layers of various materials and masks to make a surface that looks like what you'd find on a solar panel.

This is the hydroponics module. Modelling all the windows was fairly interesting, as it was assymetrical, but it came together easy once I got into it.

For saturn itself, I used a set of generated textures, gradients, and color ramps to create a material that would scale with whatever quality I wanted. I used these textures to control opacity, colour, and reflectivity.

Finally I did the render, with both the planet and the station.