Thanks for the compliment. Space ships are fun. Trying to mimic three d application is tough. I have an older version of bryce and I still can't master in photoshop what that program did. It's good practice.
The fuselage texture was made with using the default silver gradient and running the distort/wave filter on it set at square wave. I didn't mark down the settings unfortunately. I use a similar technique with making jewels. I believe the tutorial is still in the forum tutorials if you wish to give it a looksy.
Here's a cruiser. I'm just posting the smaller version for now. I used my actions technique and some of your posted techniques. on the actual cruiser. The planet was made from what I learned at
www.solarvoyager.com. The starfield is actually a brush from a set I got somewhere online. Can't remember the website.
You did a Phred too? Cool! I'd love to see it.
space cruiser 
Linear Mode
