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Margo Price at the Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ©Eric Kozakiewicz/Interstellar Rodeo
Recently decommission due to budget cuts, these Space Police interstellar transports had more than twice the speed and endurance of a standard Peacekeeper-class transport.
Sam Roberts Band at the Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ©Eric Kozakiewicz/Interstellar Rodeo
Central cruciform armature is now complete, a complex shape to set up in preparation but well worth the time taken. Resin module tunnels will be glued in tomorrow
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This was taken with Android on my Nexus S. This is in the International Terminal of the Toronto Airport
I spent today working on texture and realism, going back over the airbrushed work with a flat wide brush and white paint, nothing complex but it immediately subdues the cartoony airbrush shading into something more textured, worn out.
This is a fun challenge in restraint compared with Star Wars models where everything is filthy to excess...I've been looking carefully at the Space Shuttle panelling for reference.
Brain lock channeled into boondock bondage,
Broken brain syndrome in an e-tard fashion.
Colorless morphine dripping from the sky,
Salmonella dreams from a naughty little jungle.
This is how we do it.
This is how we do it.
I dropped kraans and the moon said something to me,
He said man I've got all the kraans you could ever need.
Sipping from a candle in another vivid dream,
Tripping over Percocets and waiting for the screams.
This is how we do it nukkah,
This is how it is.
Interstellar space travel,
Slipping from the seems.
Distant black wasteland ,
Otherworldly fiends.
Interviewing vampires,
A mile in the green.
Catch me if you can,
A ghost-faced scream.
This is how we do it.
This is wait, what?
Long past overdrive,
Nothings what it seems.
Quantamly orderly,
Picking at the weeds.
Lightly salted pigments,
In a plastic jar.
Four exalted figments,
In a dream too far.
This is what I am.
This is what you are.
Fuck that white noise I'm slipping away,
Intercept my signal on the other side.
I ain't got nothing against any gays,
I'm gonna leave this world behind.
This is how we do it,
This is how it's done.
This is how we do it,
It's all in good fun.
I'm coming to you.
I'm coming for you.
I'm coming in you.
Wait, what?
© Nick Ruffolo
inkpad, old skb pro, when I went back to edit, new skb pro, update announced at the Autodesk One Gallery The Digital Canvas, 05.05.11
The past few days I've spent moulding and casting the thruster module, this morning I cast up another couple which turned out beautifully. The pour spout is crudely cut into the mould, but it appears on a flat panel and all I do with each cast is mill that surface nice and clean before applying filler to any stray bubbles.
This evening I turned my attention back to the ranger, masking off the hull so that I could strategically Bondo the part which I've taken to calling 'The Headscarf'
That took a lot of patient sculpting, but so far so good.
Then later on I milled the retro thrusters, airlock and the four clasp locks that surround it.
Tomorrow I'll machine the thrusters and fit them in place, probably out of acrylic or acetal
In the evening I moved onto the Lander, I spent a couple of hours planning out ideas of how this nightmare of geometry would go together but ultimately I decided to mill it in acetal.
I ended up with some funky angles on the milling bed and a great deal of time spent with an angle square and spirit level.
In the end though, despite it being symmetrical and looking vaguely correct, I'm going to scrap it and make it from 5mm sheet acrylic...I've had my mill for a fortnight so I am nowhere near skilled enough to fathom the geometry of this vehicle on the mill.
Vast stretches of interstellar gas and dust are seen here just below the Orion Nebula. Newly-formed stars illuminate some of the dust, creating the blue-coloured reflection nebulae.
RGB overlays from DSS2 Red and DSS2 Blue.
Orbiting high above Cybertron, Sky Lynx leads a group of Autobots, Minicons and Joes to face a new frontier.
Just a fun shot here. My son actually thought of the concept.
Computron City is the first level in Interstellar Force. I thought that the city with its multi-layered parallax scrolling background would be a good opener level for the game. This is shown with the iPhone 4 graphic. I created all of the city graphics using an old version of Paint Shop Pro for windows XP.
Central cruciform armature is now complete, a complex shape to set up in preparation but well worth the time taken. Resin module tunnels will be glued in tomorrow
Aldeberan 2 - the desert planet. I like this level because it mixes up the colors with bright yellow and orange hues. I'm also quote pleased with the final version of the ground and mountains. The yellow/orange "dots" are the remnants of an enemy ship explosion - - this photo was taken off of the iPhone simulator on my Macbook Pro. Like most of the levels, the graphics here were created using an old version of Paint Shop Pro for Windows XP
I finally accepted that the Lander was too stubby and bit the bullet by performing some plastic surgery on the belly (badum-tsshhh)
I'll admit this ship is wreaking through every skill I know, it's a deep technical challenge. Definitely a harder task than I had pegged it to be, however...not an insurmountable one !
In other news I began machining the brass armature.
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Ok, I had to make an asteroid field in Interstellar Force. I created the asteroids using pixel art editor Pixen.
I've been somewhat neglectful of cracking on with the project recently, hanging over my head (literally, it lives on the workshop wall) incomplete, with a feeling of resentment towards how difficult the build has been.
However, I took advantage of being home on sick leave to get back on with the Landers- it's been a while since I've painted anything so it was a welcome change of scenery to building. Difficult to avoid a somewhat cartoony look at this stage, I may have to knock the contrast down with some white chalk powder judiciously applied in some areas....