The Animatrix - The Second Renaissance, Part 1 of 2

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.

Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Snub-Nosed Blade Runner Blasters!

It does seem the Adam like his movie props and especially his "blasters". He has quite the arsenal. This kit was a 3D print in resin. As usual, Adam added some of his shop created bits.

Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Mandalorian Amban Blaster Replica!

This aspect is intesting, however the fabrication of this Mandalorian Amban Blaster will be even more so. It must be great to have all the right equipment and materials at hand when working on something like this. Well done!

Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Mortal Engines Hand Cannon!

It has been a while since I made a post on Mortal Engines, however I recently found a old post by Adam Savage on his scratch build of a Mortal Engines Hand Cannon.

Japanese Long Bows

The amount of work and time that goes into a Japanese log bow is astonishing.

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<-- Previously: Process of Making a Traditional English Longbow<

Process of Making a Traditional English Longbow

"The longbow was typically made from yew wood, which provided the right balance of strength and flexibility."

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>History and Significance of the English Longbow

Man Turns Rusty Leaf Spring into an Amazing Knife

The transformation from a piece of rusty metal from a salvage yard to a beautiful knife is simple amazing. Although I don't see myself doing much in the way of metal work, the video is still inspirational.

Bits of Parchment and Map

Bits of parchment and map.

Map depicting ancient territories during the Hyborian Age.

Steal must be tempered with fire and ice.

Screenshots from Conan the Barbarian: Born on the Battlefield

The Assignment

Michelle Rodriguez plays the character of Frank Kitchen. Kitchen is double crossed and is surgically altered into a woman who is out for vengeance.

A Star Wars Amphibious Landing

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

Dr. Totenkopf's Robots

Blue print of a robot found in the journal of Dr.Totenkopf.

These robots were sent out to retrieve materials for the Dr's "ark", a spaceship being sent to start a new world.

These specimans were sent out like the others to pick up materials for the Dr's mission.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Maud' dib's Lecture to the War College, A Host of Characters

"The advent of the Field Process shield and the lasgun with their explosive interaction, deadly to attacker and the attacked, place the current determination on weapons technologies. We need not to go into the special role of atomics. The fact that any Family in my Empire could so deploy its atomics as to destroy the planetory bases of fifty or more other Families cause some nervousness, true. But all of us possess precautionary plans for devastating retaliation. No, my concern goes to the development of humans as special weapons. Here is a virually unlimited field which a few powers are developing."

Maud' dib Lecture From the Stilgar Chronicles

Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert

X-Raycer-Gas Lands Vehicle #3

Like the last vehicle in this class it is totally automatous. It has a larger surface area and improved solor and battery cells. It can run longer without having to go in hibernation mode. Lastly the lasor includes a power transformer that recycles the beam from the lasor to increase its effectiveness. This allows the lasor to make a series of short blasts faster and increases the power of the lasor by a factor of ten.

Weapons of Carnage

I have been waiting for this sprue for a short while. It's componnets look good and there is no flash that I can see. With its manned buggy and motorcycle I will add two more vehicles to my Gas Lands collection and the first three figures.

I look forward to assembling these two models and to see where I can make use of the accompanied accessories.

Easy enough, instruction sheet.

Homemade Weapons of Carnage

Screenshot from James Bond 007 Moon Raker

The object in the center is screw anchor that might be used on dry wall. The other two objests I have clue as to what they may be. However all three will be repurposed, modifyed, and turned into weapons of carnage. They will be converted into a ray gun, cannon, and a three barrel gatling gun and fitted on my Gas Lands vehicles.

Adding Bits of Greeble

I have several sets of weapons I am preparing to mount on my GasLands vehicles. Although the weapons supplied by Creepy Hero Games are great I wanted to add some greeble to make them stand out.

This weapon of carnage is some sort of particle beam weapon where it vaporizes the target on contact.

A gatling gun sitting on its mount. I have left these bits unpainted so you can see the components that were used during modifications.

A cannon sits ontop of its turrent ready to lob a projectile toward the enemy vehicle.

Implements of Carnage for My Gas Lands Vehicles

Although I am flush with third party gribble I having nothing against improvising when the need arises. This piece of plastic looks like it might have been part of some type of packaging.

I cut off a chunk of it and repuposed its use. I fashioned it into a ram with a large nasty knife sharp edge and affixed it to the front bumper. It can be used for vehicles or other purposes. The vechicle is still under development and not quite ready for the Gas Lands. It needs to be fitted with a few other implements of carnage.

Fusion Busta - Gas Lands Vehicle #1

Fusion Busta, HCT92 is from Hot Wheels Dream Garage series. I am considering using some of this series for my Gas Lands vehicles

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My first attempt at a Gaslands vehicle. I added a a twin 30 cal. machine guns, a harpon, and a serrated rear bumper. The original paint job was too pretty to tamper with, so I only gave the body a little weathering.

Bulletin 100000: Blackett Dirac Equations

“Space flight got its start as a war weapon amid the collapse of the great Western culture of Earth. The invention of Muir’s tape-mass engine carried early explorers out as far as Jupiter. The building, by remote control, of the Bridge on the face of Jupiter itself, easily the most enormous engineering project ever undertaken by man, had made possible direct, close measurements of Jupiter’s magnetic field.

The measurements provided final confirmation of the Blackett Dirac equations, which as early as 1948 had proposed a direct relationship between magnetism, gravitation, and the rate of spin of any mass.”

Prologue, Earthmen Come Home, Cities in Flight, James Blish, 1955