Here you can see I put few stripes as camouflage and also try to make colors a little bit more like faded and not fully red it wont really fit the art of the game...
And also about the shading... you can see here I didn't do the side shading because you should know the ship will rotate in game...
You need to remember those ships are battle machines and everyone wants his ship to look cool add something like camouflage or pattern or put a faction logo on it :)
You should make it look more like battle scarred and also it looks more like flying box try to put a little style into it look on google for spaceships and try to put something together :)
I guess like a truck its a big ship. :) well i can actualy make you a ships from my tablet but it wil be little harded to do but i enjoy making an pixel arts soo
Do you want to contact me ? Somehow discord or something?
And its up to you what kind of system it gonna be :)
Hm well you are a dev or what ? When i get my pc i would like to make something like an tier system .. but first make it as a boss and do maybe a new factiom with those small shipps escorting it