A productive weekend.

Having taken a break to make some Selenite paper minis, I've now textured up the Rear cowling and 'gear box'.
I've also completed the ventral compass housing (not shown in the pics).

Boiler next. Huzzah! I'm really looking forward to it.

Crow


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I've taken a brief break from the Aphid to finish something I started months ago; paper miniatures of the Doctor. All of him.

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Right then, the Cowling, Gear Box, Boiler and Cabin have prototyped up pretty well, though the bell thing on the boiler was maddeningly fiddley and I'm not convinced the cabin is constructed as well as it could be but I'll have another pass tonight. In the mean time here's some pics (that also show the 3-point stand):


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Update!

With the exception of the ventral compass housing, the hull is done:


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Okay, Prototype 2 - cardstock worked extremely well. It's a no-brainer, really. You can print to cardstock as easily as paper and it's much stronger. I might do the rest of the model in it now. In fact, I might do all my 'paper' projects in cardstock from now on ( Read more... )

In anticipation of Red Sands and to complement the paper miniatures I made a while back, this is the beginning of what looks like it's going to be a pretty fun project. A Space:1889 Aphid gunship paper model ( Read more... )

I'm in the middle of a full-on Lovecraft fad at the moment, triggered by watching Sapphire and Steel last week. I've bought a copy of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth for the X-Box which I'm looking forward to tucking into. Whilst I'm waiting for that to arrive, however, I noticed that our office library has a copy of Alone in the Dark 4 ( Read more... )

The other day I flicked through Palladium games' recent Robotech effort, Shadow Chronicles (based on the 'new' movie) and I was amazed. Amazed at how stagnant Palladium seem to be. Not only has the Palladium rule system apparently not changed in over twenty years, neither has their layout and presentation ( Read more... )

I recently saw the Clone Wars movie and was fairly non-plussed. I wasn't dissapointed so much, just very very indifferent. I realised half way through that it's not a film for me. It's a kids film. It's probably a very good kid's film, I wouldn't know. I'm not a kid. I'm going to watch the series because it'll cost me nothing to do so, but I'm not ( Read more... )

I finally managed to have a flick through Mongoose's new version of Traveller and whilst I can't speak for the game, I have to say that that is one ugly fucking book. I've heard the cover referred to as 'retro'. I'd describe it more as lack-lustre small-press (which is what the original Traveller was). Then the first 40 pages are given to someone ( Read more... )