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Hello! Hope everyone is doing well! :) Two things have happened recently, my fourth daughter was born, and my home computer died. I am writing this on a borrowed laptop. I hope to be back with more updates soon. The model continues to progress. I will post more when I have my computer repaired...

Forgive me for this question, but is this an MaK subject?

That's handy having masks as part of the kit. Particularly when you have so much glazing. Keep 'em coming!

I've never seen this droid built. Very nice! Keep up the good work! ;D

I always loved this machine. And this is the best build of it I have seen. Keep up the good work! :D

The spotting top attached using the upper two attachment points. It seems to come very close to the boom to my eye, and looks a bit 'crowded.' However, when viewed from above on the quarter the open space between the double boom seems to help. Using the lower attachment points, the spotting...

Profile shot of the dorsal boom tower. Note in the background (very blurry) is my Zvezda Varyag, 99% complete and almost fully rigged. Tried to finish it in time for the local contest this week, but work and my wife's pregnancy (almost went into labor Friday) nixed the effort. Near profile. At...

This is a flight deck from a 1/72nd scale B-29 kit I picked up a while back and decided to cannibalize. It has both an interesting shape and interesting detail, but more to the point, the combination of both deck and bulkheads makes it both light and strong. I had the intuition to use this as a...

The weathering on these kits is stunning! How did you achieve it? Really beautiful work. Just goes to show you how far a great paint job can take a build. Much to learn here.

Mine's called 'Space Wars.' The text is mostly drivel, but the pics are an amazing cross-section of classic SF art. My buddy had one when I was a kid. I didn't find one until recently.

Gorgeous subject! Did you do the scribing yourself? What's your method? Looks beautiful.

Help me out here, Chaos. I'm not a gamer. It looks like your scratch building this. Is it your design or is it from the game?

Thank you, gentlemen. Most kind. I'll have more soon. ;)

How to find out if a random piece of plastic is styrene? Glue a piece of styrene to it with model cement and wait... Doesn't take long... Lo and behold! They're styrene! Now I wish I'd bought more of them... Creating the secondary attachment arm for the spotting top... Here is the spotting...

When I think about modeling Science Fiction subjects I often find myself going back to the inspiring SF art of my childhood. A few details here... Isn't that one cool? How amazing would it be to model something like that? There are so many great artists, then and now. One of the current...

Shifting gears for a minute. My buddy J Christopher Little, heavily implicated in the Firadis effort was kind enough to open his studio to me one Saturday morning so that we could begin some test shots both for texture and color. This is the 'test cylinder' incorporating various styles of...

Hey Guys. Thanks for dropping by and thanks for the support! I'll try to keep it interesting for you. I want to share my mistakes, not just what works. I think one learns more that way. Jim, I appreciate your tips regarding posterboard in particular. It has been a bit of a learning curve...

The completed internal structure... The next question was: how to skin the beast? My problems with posterboard warping in the past were due, at least in part to two factors: 1. lack of support beneath and 2. using too large a piece of poster. I had the tendency to want to cover as large a...

Looks like good progress so far. I'm a big fan of the Nautilus. Hmm...I may have to invest in this kit someday. :)

Guido, I have to tell you... these ships have been lurking in my imagination for more than twenty years. There were times when I had no real plans to resume writing SF, but still would daydream about modeling a dredge at some point, not for anything as productive as a novel website, but just for...