Luce

Two Studies

Cat

Orson Welles

Fathom WIP

Some work in progress shots of a ship mostly based on the design of the USS Kelvin from the last Star Trek movie. I'm calling it the USS Fathom.

Inter Dimension Ship

A long while ago I posted an old render I made of this and mentioned how I wanted to have another go at the subject. Its Lazarus' Inter Dimension Ship from the Star Trek episode "The Alternative Factor". Here is a quick render and some views.

Pursuit Ship Renders

Following on from the last entry, here's some views and renders of the Pursuit Ship

Pursuit Ship

Here are some views of the Federation Pursuit Ship which, like the Liberator, is also from the Blakes 7 universe.

Liberator update

Carried out some more work on the Liberator. Its not finished yet but here are some views.

Dynamic Views Option

Blogger has facilitated a Dynamic Views interface for easier viewing of blogs.
Although I am excited by the new templates, at the time of writing, I am not yet ready to switch to them and await to see the forthcoming additions before deciding.

In the meantime, what I can do is offer anyone that wishes to, a link to view Illumination5 in the dynamic views options by clicking on the following link:-

Illumination5 Dynamic View

I have the Magazine option selected as the default link. Modern browsers will have the ability to click onto the six other options displayed on the toolbar for preferred viewing.

Thank you and enjoy.

Revell Battlestar Galactica

The 97 reissue of the Revell Monogram Battlestar Galactica kit with built up detail on the side walls and additions of a few pylons on the surface.

FX-15 Eagle

This model was inspired by a concept painting I saw on the conceptships site. Tho the painting uses an F-14 Tomcat, I had a 1/72 Italieri F15 that was doing nothing interesting so I used that as the basis and tried to come up with an interesting little paint scheme.

The appendages fold away nicely enough for flight mode too.



Here is a link to the artists page on:- conceptships.blogspot

Hasbro Tauntaun

This is the Hasbro Tauntaun toy/action figure that came with a Luke Skywalker figure. I thought it would be a neat project to try and add some synthetic fur from a regular toy to it and see what would happen and if it would make a decent replica of the studio puppet. I was really happy with the results. Below are some renders followed by some regular pics.

Revell Colonial Viper

97 re-issue of the Revell Monogram Colonial Viper. The actual canopy of the kit is sealed with no interior. I cut out the sides, made a very basic seat and used a 1/32 figure for the pilot and made a helmet out of Milliput. I used a tad of blue lighting on the model for these pics just for effect.

MPC Millennium Falcon

This is the MPC (and later AMT/ERTL) Millennium Falcon. I know the kit has its detractors but I think its an exciting kit and what it lacks for acurrists, it makes up for in size and pure fun.
This is the first model I ever tried to light, but this took place long after construction so for the front headlights the bulbs sit externally to avoid cracking the model. Also the rear engine lights are in actuality a standard amber hue but for the picture it was altered to appear blue. My paint work/details are around 60% complete as there are lots more overall hull details that weren't too easily spotted in the regular references of the time. Since then, further books and the Star Wars touring exhibits (along with the kindly fans who have put their images on sundry web sites for all to share in) have allowed the sort of access one could only dream about in days gone by. My thanks to them all for allowing us to get so much closer to, and learn from the masters and artists that designed, created and built such wonderful ships.



These are some WIP pics of the Revell Millennium Falcon. The Revell kit is a little smaller than the MPC edition, but it offered a good opportunity to start this project from the outset and I'm having a bash at fully lighting it, including the landing lights and so forth. One of the problems with so many separate lighting paths (engines/ landing gear/ headlights/ cockpit/ side wall) is deciding where to go with all the wires. Hopefully I'll figure that out one of these days.