Voyager 2’s Hidden Transmission

Voyager 2’s Hidden Transmission JUST STOPPED THE WORLD

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."

A Star Wars K-2SO Droid

They did a good job with the painting of details on the front of the model.

This droid was not advertized as a K-2SO Droid, but it sure looks like one. The droid stands approximately 120mm. It is a leggy thing and molded from a hard plastic and is highly detailed from the mold and paint. THe droids head, neck, arms, and legs are articulated.

As you can see the model also has some nice molded details on its backend. The question arises, should I take some paint to these details or not.

Building a 3D Printed Figure and Stop Motion Photography

Building 3D-printed figures.

The authors printed hundreds of these figures for his stop-motion photo shoot.

How to Use Each Dremil Bit

Until I watched this video I didn't know about the verity of bits that were available for the dremel tool let alone how they were used used. This a very informative and inspirational video and you will learn new uses for your dremel tool.

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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel

My first post on this text was in 2017 and the last was in 2021. Whether I added this link to any of these posts is unknown. Having made 50 or so posts I am not keen on poking through these posst to find whether I had or hadn't added this link. If I have not, I should have:

"Please vist this link: www.jonathanstrange.com to read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel's reactions to Susanna Clarke's novel among other magical things..."

Mini Slayer

My posts have been scant this month. This miniature stands approximately 33mm tall and is cast from resin. Although he is pretty detailed I don't know if I will paint him.

Could These Micro Tools Actually Work?

Adam Savage Makes a Machining "Cheese Plate"!

More Fictional Titles

Sometime ago I made my first post of "special books", those titles that were referred to in some piece of fiction. In the past I have researched the titles and have come upi empty. They prove to be fictional titles that were mentioned within the test, a figment of the authors imagination.

Here are a few more of these "made-up" titles.

"These, however, were but a prelude to his shelves of books, designated for deposit to the university library. Some appeared fabulously old, so old in fact, that they bore no dates and must have decended, to judge from their appearence and their written characters, from medieval times. The more recent of these were not dated beyound 1850:

Pnakotic Manuscripts
R'lyeh Text
Unaussprechlichen Kutten, von Jungt
The Book of Eitho
The Dhol Chants
The Seven Crypical Books of Hson
Ludvig Prumn's De Vermi's Mysteries
The Celalno Fragments
The Cultes desGoules of the Conte d'Erlette
The Book of Dzyan
Photostat copy of the Necromicon

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<

Twenty Diminutive Souls

They are small, that is for sure. I would say they are close to 1/100 scale and they do not have too much in the way of details to their faces and fingers. Well for what they cost I wasn't expecting too much. With a little touch-up paint I can use them to fill in some scene. In the background of a crowd or possibly somewhere in the backgound of my layout.

I know I have been slacking on my posts. I got pretty close to my goal of fifteen posts this month. I haven't been getting any projects completed, although I do have couple on the workbench that are under construction.