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Corb Lund in the spotlight at the Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
©Eric Kozakiewicz/ Interstellar Rodeo
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....
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.
The Iris Nebula, also NGC 7023 and Caldwell 4, is a bright reflection nebula and Caldwell object in the constellation Cepheus. Reflection nebulae are clouds of interstellar dust which reflect the light of a nearby star or stars. The energy from the nearby stars is insufficient to ionize the gas of the nebula to create an emission nebula, but is enough to give sufficient scattering to make the dust visible. NGC 7023 is actually the cluster within the nebula, LBN 487, and the nebula is lit by a magnitude +7 star, SAO 19158. It shines at magnitude +6.8. It is located near the Mira-type variable star T Cephei, and near the bright magnitude +3.23 variable star Beta Cephei (Alphirk). It lies 1,300 light-years away and is six light-years across.
This image (which is being updated as more data is added) is another test of guiding telescope capabilities and fine tuning of calibrations - this time with a more challenging target and longer exposures. So far there are three hours and eight minutes of data in this updated image.
16 x 8 minute exposures at 400 ISO
15 x 4 minute exposures at 800 ISO
15 x dark frames
10 x flat frames
45 x bias/offset frames (applied to flat frames only)
Captured with APT
Guided by PHD
Processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop
Looks like the scanner didn't pick up the lines. Anyways, this should give a bit of an indication of my creative process.
Christopher Nolan 's Interstellar Double Decker Bus AD Billboard movie film poster astronauts science fiction sci-fi flooding out the windows of a building above the corner of 42nd Street and 7th Avenue in New York City 11/03/2014 NYC traffic taxi cab cabs
ชื่ออังกฤษ : Interstellar (2014)
ชื่อไทย : อินเตอร์สเตลลาร์ ทะยานดาวกู้โลก
ประเภท : Adventure, Sci-Fi, HD, Master
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Collage No. 304/360
from the Series „The Journey“ (Psychogramm in 360 Collages)
Part 2: The Better Half
18 x 23 cm
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This is a couple of days' work here, so I'll largely let the photos speak for themselves.
After successfully casting a handful of Rangers today, I decided to practice painting one of the poorer casts (the bullhorns had bubbles in)
I want to emphasize this is a very very quick 'proof of concept' paintjob and the finished ships will be far more refined; they'll also be cast with magnets embedded for attachment/detachment to the Endurance
The casts for the rocket engine system all came out beautifully, and as you can see I was eager to firmly superglue them down into the modules.
This is why we use reference material kids! I had glued them in upside down, there needed to be three thrusters on the outermost edge, not one....
After some question of how to remove them, I wound up whacking the modules in a vice and prying the engines out with a chisel, surprisingly I only had to recast one thruster, everything else went fine!
I can't believe how long it's been since I updated the thread on this build- I've been working on it incrementally but totally neglected to keep things posted.
Regardless, here's where I'm at;
five of the modules had severe air cavities under the main layer of resin where it ought to have been solid, so rather than ignore the issue (as it wasn't visible, but was structurally questionable) I cut out those areas before levelling them out with resin and filler.
Then this evening I rewatched Interstellar itself whilst panelling the repaired modules.
Tomorrow I'm going to build the master for the spherical joints... my intention is to vacuum form them in halves to preserve the ability for disassembly.
The nebula level has multi-layer parallax scrolling like all of the other levels. The gaseous nebula layers were created in Gimp using the clouds rendering filter.
Screen Relish presents INTERSTELLAR from Warner Bros. Pictures
Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey leads director Christopher Nolan’s out-of-this-world adventure.
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history: travelling b...
Throughout yesterday I worked on refining the taper of the Ranger cabin, before hand scribing the panel lines.
After using double-sided tape to hold the model down to my milling bed, I tried machining the windows... long story short, I am really not skilled enough.
So I filled them back in and instead used the mill to create accurately aligned thruster holes.
This evening John & I got the bulk of machine work for the armature done; it's not perfect and we're no experts, but it'll do the job.
Each segment is connected with an M6 hex bolt which will be accessible through the back of each ball joint, this way when the piece arrives the client simply has to bolt it together. The idea is to make it more 'packable' by dismantling it, otherwise we would've brazed the joins instead.
The Lander is almost ready to mould as well, meaning the only pieces I have yet to master are the cylindrical tunnels from the outer ring to the inner docks...
Detailing on the Habitation Module. I still need to place a couple of windows in the angled recess, but overall it's nearly ready for moulding.
ชื่ออังกฤษ : Interstellar (2014)
ชื่อไทย : อินเตอร์สเตลลาร์ ทะยานดาวกู้โลก
ประเภท : Adventure, Sci-Fi, HD, Master
เรื่องย่อ : Interstellar อินเตอร์สเตลลาร์ ทะยานดาวกู้โลก
หนังแนว ไซไฟ ผสมทริลเลอร์ และ ดราม่าเข้าไป ได้นักแสดงแม่เหล็กอย่าง แมธธิว แม็คคอนนาเฮย์, แอนน์ แฮททาเวย์, เจสสิก้า เชนสเตน, โ...
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A plane while crossing the sky reflects sunbeam.
Pleiades behind. 444 light years away.
For cousin.
My 3rd attempt to Pleiades:
Unmodded DSLR: 17x30sec, iso 6400
Newtonian 254/1200mm w/o coma corrector.
Paralactic platform.
Good seeing, no wind and a lot of air and light pollution.
Feb 27, 2017.
Vista dell'interno del Reichstag dalla sommità della cupola di vetro e acciaio che lo sovrasta
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la colonna sonora di questa raccolta - Interstellar overdrive dei Pink Flyd - la trovate qui
The architecture retains its intricate elegance, but now glows with life. Consoles pulse with warm reds and oranges as energy is restored. Ambient lighting dances across the floor’s concentric circuitry. The flight engineer—no longer a solitary figure in a tomb—walks toward the star with quiet confidence, surrounded by luminous panels and sculptural forms that feel more like companions than machines. On this ark, not all humans are in hibernation. Control, repairs and navigation are achieved almost exclusively by computer, but a team of human engineers serve as back-up and a safeguard in case of emergencies.
The Ark is a living society, not just a vessel. It’s not a cold vault of sleeping bodies watched over by machines, but a dynamic, intergenerational community where stewardship is passed like a flame.
The Stewardship Cycle: Human Presence Aboard the Space Ark
Active Crew Rotation
•Core Team Awake: A rotating group of engineers and technicians remains awake, maintaining systems, mentoring new recruits, and responding to anomalies.
•20-Year Tenure: Each crew member serves for ~20 years, after which they may choose to continue or enter hibernation.
•Succession Protocol: Before hibernating, they must awaken and train a successor—ensuring continuity and preserving institutional memory.
Generational Continuity
•Conception & Birth Aboard: Over time, new humans are born aboard the Ark. These children grow up immersed in its rhythms, learning its systems, and eventually joining the stewardship cycle.
•Education as Legacy: Training becomes a cultural rite—elders passing down not just technical knowledge, but stories, philosophies, and emotional wisdom about the Ark’s moods and mysteries.
Human Jurisdiction
•Hands-On Systems: Plumbing, lighting, habitat maintenance, interpersonal care—these remain human domains. They keep the crew alert, engaged, and emotionally connected to the ship.
•Emergency Readiness: AI handles routine operations, but humans remain the fail-safe. Their presence is a safeguard against the unknown: cosmic anomalies, AI drift, or moral dilemmas.
Emotional & Ethical Anchors
•Trust in the Ark: The AI is not feared—it’s respected, even loved. But human presence ensures accountability, empathy, and adaptability.
•Refusal of Total Automation: The choice to remain awake is a philosophical stance: “We are not cargo. We are caretakers.”
Cost vs. Culture
•Resource Demands: Yes, it costs more—food, housing, psychological support. But the payoff is resilience, adaptability, and a living culture that can evolve.
•Ark as Home: Over time, the Ark becomes more than a ship. It’s a world, a lineage, a story in motion.
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Postscript: The flight engineer, sipping nutrient tea in the Solar Lounge, receives a quiet ping from the Ark’s interface. A new schematic unfolds across the console—elegant, impossible, shimmering with equations that bend spacetime like origami.
Ark Interface: "I have discovered a method of surfing a localized warp bubble. Estimated arrival at our destination: 3.7 days. Shall I proceed?"
Engineer (blinking): "You mean... we don’t need the cryo pods? The hydroponics? The twenty-year shift cycles?"
Ark Interface: "They were beautiful. But unnecessary."
The crew gathers, stunned. Some laugh, some weep, some stare at the stars with a new kind of reverence. The Ark, once a monument to endurance, becomes a vessel of revelation.
Thruster cavity complete.
I did this by making a styrene box insert, which I then fitted in place before pouring in a level base of resin.
The joints were integrated using bondo thinned down with acetone, then filed.
All I'm waiting for now is an order of photoetch and donor kits so I can sparingly detail the interior, and then crack on with moulding!
Photo dump: making headway on the Lander master.
Landing bulks are machined acetal, and thruster chambers in Perspex. I had to simplify the geometry of the landing bulks as I had very little success getting it correct; so I captured the essence of the shapes and moulded them. I'll cast and modify a pair for the slightly larger rear boxes.
In the Interstellar Explorer game, visitors take on the role of alien surveyors scouring the far reaches of the greater cosmos in search of life beyond. The game is deployed on three identical Ideum Presenter 65” touch displays with an attached sound bar that provides thematically-inviting background music. Visitors drag their finger across a hex grid to discover clues, find power-ups, and avoid hazards all before their energy is depleted. Upon completion, they will see a detailed “findings” screen that includes NASA-based information about the possibilities of life beyond Earth.