Building Method.
There isn't an actual plan for this, more a sort of recipe. You take a variety of different sets, divide what you've got into various quantities to build the legs and supporting girders, and use what's left to give it that "cluttered" look.

Clutter: Technic shafts and joiners make good pipework. Wheel hubs are good for round tanks, sloping bricks for octagonal tanks and floating-hull keels mounted upside down for gas cylinders with domed ends. Flagpoles become more pipework, steering wheels are essential for shut-off valves along the pipes and where pipes intersect tanks. If you've got a multiple of any part, stick them all together and the repetition suggests industrial manufacture.

The Base : Divide all your long Technic beams into 4, then realise you need to span the middle so resort to joining shorter beams.
The Superstructure : Basically, throw everthing you've got at it. Lots of small huts with walkways between them, helicopter pads and a motorised crane if you have to keep a five year old sister busy while you build the other three sides.
Don't forget a flare arm because a million BTUs of heat will melt a minifig,
...and you can never have enough pipework, tanks and ladders.
A "Kai's Sky Effects" background, just this once. Or maybe, if we used a big green sheet ...

 

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