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Listening to on a Linux app: Shortwave

Building the Spaceship off the Cover of an Old Sci-Fi Book

Using a sheet of polystyrene and a concept from a science fiction novel's front covers art the authors builds a fabulous space ship. As building a spaceship with styrene is on my bucket list this article is inspirational.

Robot Novels by Isaac Asimov

Although there are other authors writing robot novels, no one has the body of work as Isaac Asimov.

1. I Robot
2. The Rest of the Robots
3. The Complete Robot
4. The Caves of Steel
5. The Naked Sun
6. The Robots of Dawn
7. Robots and Empire

What I am listening to right now:

Soma FM

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KIt-Bashing Tips and Tricks and Kit-Bashing for the Star Wars Scatter Point Project

This video from Bill Making, features 100 triks and tips for the kit-basher and miniatures maker. Great tips, fun, and inspirring.

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The Rob Hawkins on the Kitbashing Star Wars Buildings page describes Hawkins detailing and kit-bashing for a Star Wars Scatter Point project for Atomic Mass Games. Fabulous work and insights.

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Fixed link above on 3.28.26 @ 2300.

Ideas and Inspiration for More Robots

I posted this AI generated image some time ago. Recently I was reviewing my past posts and saw this image at the bottom of the post and it got me thinking about creating more robot miniatures. I was struck with the many colors, shapes, sizes and many differnt sensory inputs of these specimens.

The Animatrix - The Second Renaissance, Part 1 of 2

A Image Created Creator in Gemini

I used Gmini Nano Banana.

Skinjob: A Short Animated Fan Made Blade Runner Film

Happy New Year

Skinjob is a fan created short film. It features some nice choreographed scenes and great audio effects. It is best viewed on the largest screen you have.

BBC Neuromancer Radio Play

I read William Gibson's sprawl series, in which Neuromancer is the first of a three part series. Gibson, although the first is credited for creating the word cyberspace. I remember reading this series for the first time while at the university. Being a IT major I remember this series changing the way I looked the world and the world of technology.

"So I went out into the night and the neon and let the crowd pull me along, walking blind, willing myself to be just a segment of that mass organism, just one more drifting chip of consciousness under the geodesics."

Automatic Jack

William Gibson, Neuromancer

There are two one hours segments to this radio play.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2

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More BBC Sci-Fi Radio Plays

Blade Runner — Deleted and Alternate Scenes

I recently received a two dvd Blade Runner set. I have watched both on several occasions and had to add these two classics to my collection. Blade Runner number 1 was, at the time, one of my favorite movies. Imagine a whole new world in the future with people, vehicles, and structures. Blade Runner reminds me of the Sprawl series by William Gibson, namely Mona Lisa Overdrive, Neromancer, and Count Zero.

I Want to Build This

I found this structure on Pinterest and I want to attempt to build it. I have been wanting to start a long term project from mostly card stock. This should keep me entertained for a while.

The Assembly of the AT - M6 is Complete

Screenshot for Star Wars

Assemble has been completed. I still need to prime, paint, and detail the model. The instructions suggest paint consisting of 90% grey and 10% black. I don't see a scale listed anywhere on the box. So in milimeters the transport measures approximatly 75h by 65w. The piece is highly detailed and it will be fun to detail these with dabs of paint.

Even though I took longer to build the model it could have put together in about twenty minutes. For as simple as construction was I am very happy how things worked out. It is as small as it is beautiful.

Construction of a (Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy) Vogon Spaceship

The build of the Vogon Spaceship as invisioned by the author, was fascinating to watch.

AT - M6 Walker Under Construction

These models are full of details and are well engineered.

Make sure you know what comes next and watch your assembly sequences during the assembly of your subassemblies.

Painting my Robot Vermin

I needed a break from my paperwork so I am started to paint my robot vermin.

Picture of my robot vermin being painted. When I grab a paint brush and a tin of paint this will be my sixth or seventh interation through these sculpts. I usually will use two new colors to paint or touch-up the miniatures at one time and perhaps a third to touch up the miniatures I have already painted.

10 Classic Sci-Fi Books That Should Be Turned Into Movies

10 Classic Sci-Fi Books That Should Be Turned Into Movies

I have seen a lot of science fiction movies and would love to see a few of these titles on the large screen. Well perhaps we will someday.

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Microcosm

"They were humans - or so they believed - the grotesque result of a grandiose experiment which had gone appallingly awry.

Trapped on a world that was hurling through space at a fantasic speed, they sought the riddle of their heritage amoung the only companions they knew - ghosts, mutants, giants and regimented rats."

As found on the backcover of the 1963 edition of Brian Aldiss's Starship

Starship, Brian Aldiss

Voyage of Discovery

A retro rocket taking of for the cosmos. Art work on the covers of Brian Aldiss's Starship.

"Somewhere in the fabled region called 'Forwards'¹ lay the answers to a 400-year-old secret. Who were they? Where did they come from? Where were they going?

But Forwards was far away through lands of unimaginable horror. And the answers they sought were the jealously gaurded secret of the mysterious 'Unknowns' - a secret so hideous that even those superiors beings dared not reveal it ..."

Starship, Brian Aldiss, Signet Books, 1963. Was originally copyrighted in 1958, by Brian Aldiss.

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¹ "'Forwards' are a more advanced, intelligent, and technologically capable tribe of humans residing within a massive spaceship."

Alien Spaceship Invades my Science Fiction Library

I awoke this morning to find this ceature examing my science fiction library. The stack continues to grow and as well, my list of unread books.

The flying scaucer measures approximately 35w by 30mm tall and is fashioned from resin. It does include fare amount of moulded in details to a silver body with some red and green paint to some molded details. THe clear canopy sits on top of a black center with a set of small colored spheres.