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.

Building Spaceships like ILM

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.

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.

Luner Lander, an Update

Outside of what is on my workbench I have been tending to other projects like gardening and the optimizing my work spaces.I have also been doing my share of reading. Here is the progress to my Luner Lander up until this point. It still needs some paint and perhaps a few small details.

Luner Lander Underway

Materials for this unit came primarily from my bits bin. Also pictured on the bench are a tweezer and a needle file, in the upper right and two weights on the left hand side of the picture. In addition there two small bits of styrene sheets and one rod. The rod is out of stock.

Repurposed

Several of my viewers susgested that several of "robot vermin" could have alternative uses. Such as, moving from left to right, 2, 3, and 5 might have used as space ships, probes or satellites. I see what you mean and have decided to build several more of these models with these ideas in mind.

Components for a luna lander. Mind you it may not be owe moon, but something interstellar.

1950's Retro-Rocket Scratchbuild

Although there are no instructions, Green Stuff World's 1950's rocket build provides plenty of images of the construction process for this scratch built retro spaceship.

A Versatile Fix-it All Bot

As found in Run Silent

This is one of three such robots featured in "Run Silent", a science fiction film created in 1972. These robots were generally used for repair work, inside and outside of the spaceship, but could be repurposed for work in the surgery or in the horticulture pod.

A Host of Characters - Red-Shift

"Red is an industrail family with its roots in the dawn of space travel, it is very firmly fixed on Earth specifically and throughout the Dacro system.

Red-shift made the components for all conceivable space drives, the tools for dismantling them, the machines for servcing them, and replacment parts."

Chapter 2, Nova, Samuel R. Delany

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

Adam Savage's STARFIELD Spaceship Model Completed!

Adam Savage's STARFIELD Spaceship: Painting and Weathering!

Adam Savage's STARFIELD Spaceship Model: Nuts and Volts!

Adam Savage's STARFIELD Spaceship Model: Scratch-Building!

2010 Odyssey Two Mission Objectives

"The objectives of your mission are, in order of priority:

1. To proceed to the Jovian system and rendezvous with US Spacecraft Discovery (UNCOS01/283)
2. To board this spacecraft to obtain all possible information relating to its earlier mission
3. To reactivate Spacecraft Discovery’s onboard system and if propellant supplies are adequate, inject the ship into Earth return trajectory
4. To locate the alien artifact encountered by Discovery, and to investigate to the maximum extent possible by remote sensors
5. If it seems advisable, and Mission Control concurs, to rendezvous with this object for closer inspection
6. To carry our a survey of Jupiter and its satellites, as far as this is compatible with the above objectives"

2010 Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke

The Oberon Space Station

The Oberon Space Station as depicted in the Planet of the Apes

The Oberon Space Station seems to be revovling around Saturn which is a bit confusing as the premise of the story is that because of a space storm, the space station ends up on what looks like Earth.

Greeble Bits

This is another lost and found item I recently acquired. It looks like a spaceship that might have included a projectile of some sort. I have divided the piece in different cut points. I thought these parts might make great greeble bits for other projects.