A Star Wars Amphibious Landing

These fabulous creations are featured in Star Wars III, Revenge of the Sith.

Enjoy the Magic of Christmas in 2023

Merry Christmas from all of us to all of you.

Captain Lorq Van Ray Makes an Ill-Advised Trip

"Captain Lorq Van Ray's passion for vengenece drove him to attempt what no mortal as ever dared - to sail through the splintered core of a disintegrating sun.

Into Van Ray's obsession were drawn the aimless-wandering souls who would plug into a ship that offered adventure and escape:

• Mouse - the young gypsy who created blindingly beautiful visions on the syrjnx, an instrument of sensory projection,
• Idas and Lynceos - the twins from the outer colonies, one black and one albino,
• Sebastian - the golden - haired man and his Tarot reading mate TYY, who traveled the stars with their six black-taloned beasts,
• Katin - the scholor who preferred the quite moons of the universe to all the peaceful suns and planents..."

Nova, Samuel R. Delany, 1968

Robot Bits - building components

I am in process of building a few components for my future robots. I have decided to switch from a small sanding drum to one of the diamond coated routery tools that came with my dremil tool. The tool (I am sorry that I did not take a picture of the tool) gives me more control over the removal of unwanted plastic. Off to the left, a couple of other sets of legs and feet wait to be assembled.

Low Tech Drones

This is another purchase from Head Bunny Games, their 28mm Low Tech Drones, which are big on details.. It looks like I have some things to assemble and paint.

Cyberpunk Documentary, part 3

Cyberpunk Documentary, part 2

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How William Gibson’s Cyberpunk Radically Changed Science Fiction

The Cyberpunk Project: William Gibson

Cyberpunk Documentary, part 1

Cyberpunk may be new to some of you, but while away at university I cut my teeth on the cyberpunk genre and literature while reading William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy. These texts changed the way I looked at the world. We are not there yet, however it seems that we are moving in the direction.

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Edited on 1.1.2024 @ 11:34 PM.. Added additional comments.

Burning Chrome Audio

To here Gibson's Burning Chrome being read is to understand Gibson's genius.

Burning Chrome - The Matrix

"The core data began to emerge, exposed and vulnerable... This is the far side of ice ¹, the view of the matrix ² I've never seen before, the view that fifteen million legitimate console operators see daily and take for granted."

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¹ "ICE: Intrusion CounterMeasures Electroncs"

² "The matrix is an abstract representation of the relationship between data systems."

Burning Chrome, Burning Chrome, William Gibson, 1986

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• Quotes from Burning Chrome,
• Literature in a Wired World Wiki: Burning Chrome

Edited on 12.16.23, added link to Burning Chrome Quotes AND etc. @ 10:45 AM.

Robot Vermin

Set of 5 UNPAINTED 28 or 32mm Sci-Fi robot vermin can be found at HeadBunny Games. HeadBunny Games is offering a 10% dicount when making a purchase from their website. Use the following discount code: " winter23 ". "Can be used as vermin, drones or swarms of technological pests."

Were the vermin come from and whether they are being created by humans or an AI? "No-one knows." In a post-apocalyptic world they fit in to the scenery. They seem to provide one or two services, one is surveillance and the other is sharing to resources with memebers of of their order. They mainly obtain energy from sunlight and from the air. THey also can share energy through a Bluetooth like apparatus. These robots are made from the readly available junk that perminates their environments around ruined industrial areas. They are self aware and are able to protect themselves if needed.

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Updated on 12/13/23 @ 12:50 pm. Added label and edited second paragraph: background story.

Robot Greeble

Greebles come in many forms.

Parts for homemade robots are ready available if you know where to look. Legs from the handle of a razor blade cut in half, heads from caps and torsos from small toys and plastic tubes and parts.

Robot Bits

As I have mentioned before, the author of this mechanical being sent me extra parts, that is, robot bits for me to experiment with.

Never mind the robots arms and my amature rendering. I will be using this drawing as a guide, not a blueprint for my next kit-bashed robot. I will use two arms from the spares, including one with the ray gun, The rest of the robot components will be scratch built from left-over bits of plastics.

Realistic 40k Terrain - Ruined Factory Tutorial

Nicely done. And this from card board and other bits.

British Spitfire

This image depicts a British Spitfire as it flys over the beaches of Dunkirk. Screenshot from the movie Dunkirk.