More screenshots from a 1950’s USAF nuclear aircraft film. Shown here is a model of a nuclear turbojet. Clearly, though, something funny is going on with the design… where’s the air inlet?
Mar 082009
Mar 052009
I’m declaring victory on the wretchedly organic underside, with the exception of the *hundreds* of raider-sockets (not really looking forward to those, though I have some ideas on how to make them less than entirely hellish to create). Need to scribe the upper-surface panel lines and deal with the stand.
Feb 082009
Surface is finished, cockpit nearly so (just some touchup), landing gear is done. All that’s now needed are the various doors, and some weapons bay work.
Jan 282009
Huzzah. All the modeling is done. Now to finish the writing, and create a few new illustrations from the models. Most of the writing is complete, but there’s still some to do, and a fair bit of editing. And I’m only at 148 pages!
Jan 262009
On dispaly a tthe Udvar-Hazy annex of the National Air and Space Museum is a 1/10 scale model of the V-1. That’s not terribly newsworthy… but the model is not of the V-1 London came to know and love, but instead it’s a model of one of the very early test designs, with a vertical rudder placed in front of the pulsejet engine (Why? Don’t friggen’ know.) Also features the different tail, inlet and nose that the early V-1’s had.
Jan 232009
Maybe…
Jan 232009
Nearly done modeling the Orions. Today I got the 20-meter NASA vehicle modeled, and futzed around a fair deal with colors and such. One last Orion to model, and I’ll be finished with this part of the effort.
Jan 202009
Declaring victory on the Orion Battleship model. There is a vast amount more that could be done… but at this stage, there’s nothing more I’m *gonna* do with this model.
Jan 172009
Work on the Orion article continues, with more modeling. The modeling I’m fairly good at, the rendering… meh. To do it right would require a whole lot of texture map work, and I just don’t have the time for that. So… the Orions will look a bit bland, I guess.
I need to model the 20-meter Orion yet, as well as the Advanced Interplanetary Ship, and make some refinements to the Regular Interplanetary Ship.
Jan 162009
