Dan O'Bannon

September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009.

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Lizardmen Stegadon

Citadel's Lizardmen Stegadon kit from their Warhammer range.

Rheingold

Bamboo

I've been wanting a drawing tablet for a long time, but never really had the impetus to invest in one until now. As a new generation of Wacoms Bamboo range are currently being released, the superseded models have now been reduced in price for clearance so I picked up a Bamboo Fun. It's going to take me a long time to get to grips with the basics, but been having a quick play and thought I'd embarrass myself and share my first sketch on it.

Revell Y-Wing

This is the Revell Y-Wing snap kit.

XVth Century Knight

I thought this Mini Art kit was an interesting little piece, I'd really like to find some more from their range.

Ma.K Fireball

I don't know much about the Ma.K universe, as such kits are very hard to obtain for me, but I was most gracious in obtaining this kit and very much enjoyed building it.

Anakins Podracer

Another EI vehicle. This is the AMT/ERTL Podracer experiencing a bit of engine trouble. The shots and renders are a bit crude and some day I'd like to dig it out and get some better snaps.

N-1 Starfighter

Back to the starships. Here's the AMT/ERTL Naboo N-1 Starfighter.

The Gallantry

November marks Remembrance Day. These figures are Emhar's 1:72 WWI 'Doughboys' American Infantry set. This is a WIP test shot and you shall be seeing more of them in the near future.

More Flying Things

Although I mostly enjoy making renders of spacecraft, I'd like to branch out a little and try my hand at some more earthly vehicles. Thing is, I don't really have any concerns making space battles, as ofcourse, its not real, but contemplating doing the same with historical scenarios feels a little different and I want more than anything to be respectful and neither gratuitous or sensationalizing real peoples sacrifices. But as I figure out the best approach, here's a 1:48 Airfix Messerschmitt Bf109F I've been working on. I've never painted camo before and it was fun to try out.

Klaw

2009 marks the Sesquicentennial of the publication of Darwins On the Origin of the Species, and the bicentenary of his birth. Therefore, it's always good to find some dinosaur kits to indulge in.
This is the Revell Pteranodon, which as you may know is a reissue from the old Aurora era kits. They were all given pet names and this one is known as "Klaw". I'm a bit so/so with designing eyes and flesh tones but never the less, giving it a go.

Brushes

I don't particularly dabble with digital brushes, but my nearest told me to "Step into the 21st century" so I had a play around with a couple made by other artists and thought I would share these little ditties. You can obtain the brushes by clicking on the link below the last picture:- http://myphotoshopbrushes.com/

The Pale Blue Dot

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us its different.

Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

- Carl Sagan

Juvinalia I

Rosewater

Sick Machine

If you've ever wondered what a sick computer looks like when you ask it to open its mouth and say 'Aaaah', well, it's something like this, hence my lack of posts these last few months.

Thanks to some doses of Digicetamol, its able to make images again.

The Kiss

A character test render

Dimension Ship

I found this old render based on Lazarus' Inter Dimension ship from the Star Trek episode "The Alternative Factor". It's very rough and basic from a period when I was trying to learn some basic modeling. I'd like very much to have another go at it at some point.

Nu Raider

As is the trend these days, this is the re-imagined Raider from BSG, this is Black Sun Models small 1:72 scale edition.

Cylon Raider

One of my favorite model releases. This is the Revell Cylon Raider.

An Escape Pod

I wanted very much to have a go at an Escape Pod sequence like the one seen in the first Star Wars movie. I built a basic pod model based on the look and design of the ILM model, but it is not in any way a precise or exact match. It was a fun little project.

Daedalus Class

A Star Trek TOS era Daedalus Class vessel, based on a design by Matt Jefferies and a physical model by Greg Jein.