Fantastic Plastic has released the resin model kit of the SR-72 that I mastered for them. Check it out HERE.
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Jun 022015
Some model kits I mastered for Fantastic Plastic are back in stock. Click the images to go to the relevant catalog page.
May 192015
I’ve never been a fan of Blake’s 7 (only saw a few episodes, decades ago on public TV), but I know a lot of folks are. Well, guess what:
Blake’s Seven 7 Original Series Liberator Studio Model Film TV Movie Star Prop
Buy It Now Price: £33,000.00
May 152015
I’ve made a number of science fictional CAD models for Fantastic Plastic. Wonderfest, an annual hobby convention in Louisville, Kentucky, is coming up at the end of the month, and Fantastic Plastic is going to set up there. A while back I thought it might be interesting to take some of the CAD models I’ve created for current and forthcoming Fantastic Plastic model kits, specifically the Helicarrier, the Prometheus and the Messiah, and create 2D layout drawings… and then make cyanotype blueprints. Further, the blueprints would be at the same scale as the kits.
The end results? A moderately sized Helicarrier blueprint, two big Prometheus sheets (one showing the craft in flight, the other showing it in landed configuration), and one enormous Messiah blueprint, a full six feet long.
I don’t know if there is a market for such things. The Prometheus and the Messiah in particular are just gigantic. Were I to really try to commercialize them, I’d probably scale them down to at least 2/3 and more likely 1/2 the current size. Still, creating them was not a minor effort… so what the heck. I’m going to make them available for a limited time. Yes, they’re pricey. But they’re also *huge.* And a pain to make. And there won’t be very many of them on the entire planet (right now, two copies each of the Helicarrier and the Messiah; a grand total of one of the Prometheus prints).
These will be available for a two-week period, starting now. If some dark miracle occurs and I sell a hundred of them within that span, then, great! But however many, at the end of the two weeks, that’s it. All done, no more. I will total them up, and hand notate each one as numbered limited edition (“1 of 5,” or whatever, based on the order that orders come in) plus I’ll initial each one. Because why not.
Feel free to order as many of each as you want. Don’t forget postage… and don’t forget that with this one-time postage you can order as many *other* cyanotype prints as you like.
Prometheus prints:
Helicarrier:
May 122015
I’m interested in getting the models of the USS Bush and the ISS from the video game “Iron Sky: Invasion.” Can anyone help out? Purpose: as aids in creating diagrams for the NPP book (which I have gotten back to working on… since finishing the Deep Impact “Messiah” model, I have created two more “pop culture Orion” models. Obviously, much simpler models than the Messiah…).
May 102015
This photo was passed to me to identify. Much of it looks like the Grumman G-623 VTOL fighter concept from the mid 1970s (illustrated below), but the tail is obviously entirely different and the nose is much pointier. It’s my guess that the model might represent an early version of the G-623 design. Can anyone confirm/deny?
The Grumman G-623:
May 042015
After “2001” wrapped up filming, Stanley Kubrick had all the models destroyed. Except… it seems not.
2001: ASO – ARIES 1B – Detailed Photos by and from Gene Kozicki
There are a *lot* of photos…
A good writeup of the rediscovery of the Aries Ib is HERE.
Apr 172015
Finally done modelling this thing. Took long enough!
The multiview layout drawing generated from the model would take a good deal of effort to clean up proper, but it’s needed for the “Nuclear Pulse Propulsion” book. Now that the model is very nearly complete (I need to convert each part, individually, into a separate STL file… bleah), I can devote more time to other stuff, including potentially getting back to work on NPP. But before I let the Messiah go entirely… anyone interested in large format blueprints based on the layout drawings?
Mar 202015
I am nearing completion of the “Deep Impact” Messiah model. Basically I’ve gone through most of the parts and hollowed them out and chopped them up into “kit parts” for printing. Some yet to do… the photoetched brass bits – shown here in yellow – need some work. The nose landing gear leg is a simple placeholder just yet. And a few other details I’d like to add.
Not shown here are the “booster rockets” the vehicle was shown with.
While a lot of the design replaced practical aerospace functionality with “huh? wut?” it’ll still be an impressive display model when available in 1/200 scale from Fantastic Plastic.
Mar 172015
Behold the undeniable awesomeness of preparing the visual effects of a big-budget sci-fi movie in the era before CGI:
Bladerunner Model Shop
A number of vehicles there that I don’t recall from the movie… not just flying cars, but just about the funkiest cargo truck concept I’ve seen in a while.