The orbiters have always inspired me, but seeing the scorch marks from re-entry make my hair stand. A testament to what your ship must withstand when you move at escape velocity. Fast enough that friction from air molecules will render titanium into plasma.
Thought I might play around with using the smoke stain as a feature…
A test, requiring selective weeding so two files superimposed in different colors. So first I could use a score to cut the mask and differentiate between areas - to allow the stain or not and weed appropriately, then run the engrave with all the features. I will probably do this in a larger scale because it closely matches my imagination.