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 232009
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
Jan 152009
And at least 3 more designs need to be added to the little zoo here. Sigh…
There is not only modeling to be done, but some tinkering for rendering purposes. The tip of the Orion’s pointy nose seems to vanish.
Jan 132009
From Fantastic Plastic models…
Jan 032009
Delivered today were the printed parts for the Rockwell “Silent Night” stealth attack plane. The resin is good, but there’s a lot of surface roughness (“jaggies”) produced by the resolution limits of the 3D printer to be removed. Still, the parts fit, and test sanding of the underside of one of the wings went off without a hitch. This’ll be a pretty spiffy model once completed.
Dec 222008
The first model I did for Fantastic Plastic back in 2004 was the British Avro 730 bomber in 1/144 scale. Last year I was asked to re-visit the model. I completely rescribed it, added cockpit, landing gear and bomb bay details, and just generally improved the hell out of it. The first time ’round, my skills were a little rusty; the new version is a great improvement. It is now available for purcahse from Fantastic Plastic.
Dec 222008
PTM folded up shop *years* ago. There was a brief revival 3 or so years back, when I released the Lockheed lifting body CEV model; but other than that, my model work has been done under contract (largely to Fantastic Plastic).
I have decided to bring PTM back. PTM was, in it’s day, a provider of simple and (for garage resin kits) relatively *cheap* model kits. I am going to largely stick with that… minimum parts count, minimal price (which, since they are garage kits, will still be more expensive than injection molded kits). It won’t be competition for FP… I am going to either do kits that have been rejected by FP, or are outside of FP’s baliwick, or were previous PTM kits. One of the SICBM “Midgetman” Hard Mobile Launchers, for example. The Lockheed CEV. The X-20. A few conversion kits for regular injection mold kits… a new lower half for the Monogram 1/72 X-15 to produce a very different bird, for example. Possibly the nuclear engines for the X-6 to fit to the 1/72 B-36 kit. The early Jupiter IRBM-launching submarine concept.
Feel free to post suggestions.
Dec 212008
The end of my part of the Space Park story. The actual 3-D printed parts were shipped to me, I cleaned ’em up (the tech isn’t *quite* there yet to make baby-ass smoth parts straight out of the printer cost effectively), and have shipped them off to Fantastic Plastic. FP will have them cast and will market them.
Below is a photo of the parts ready for shipment to FP. There is one more part not shown…a tiny little antenna cluster for the nose. The kit should be pretty easy to assemble.
