Two Tyrannosaurus Rex hunt a triceratops in a recreation of the famous Charles R. Knight painting The original in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. A sabre tooth tiger (Smilodon), watches for prey in a recreation of the 1903 Charles R. Knight painting in the American Museum of Natural History. How the idea […]
Some images of dinosaurs from a toy photo class I taught in July.
(Star Wars non-canon; non-Legends) A Star Guard “smuggler interceptor” using the military version of the Corellian Engineering YT 1300 light freighter which I call the GT-1350 chasing a smuggler in an original YT-1300. (is it the Millennium Falcon or another smuggler using the YT-1300? Who knows.) Have you ever noticed that the Millennium Falcon always […]
(This is the second of my scratch building and modelling projects based on the books I loved as a kid) Rosemary Sutcliff was my premier favourite author as a kid–and I still reread her novels from time to time more than 40 years later. Her first, and by far her most famous novel was The […]
Almost all the model starships on the market today come from either Star Wars or Star Trek, with a few from the Battlestar Galactica reboot. Some speciality hobby stores both brick and mortar and online do offer some “vintage” kits. Even on Shapeways, the online marketplace for 3-D printed models, the offerings are almost all […]
Just before Christmas, I purchased a new router. Opened the box and the router was packaged in papier-mâché, a more environmentally friendly to all that plastic. I took one look at it and it reminded me of all those photos of jungle ruins. So I imagined that once on an alien world (of course […]
I began recreating science fiction models about two years ago for a couple of reasons. One I wanted a creative outlet that was somewhat separate from my career as a photographer, journalist and writer. That’s so I could relax and have fun. Second, as a kid in the 1960s inspired by Star Trek, the Original […]
First this is completely non-canon (so far) and non legends. I fell in love with Star Wars the moment in 1976 I saw the original trailer “the story of a boy, a girl and a universe… a billion years in the making and it’s coming to your galaxy this summer,” months before the movie was […]
So here are the results of my latest project, scratch building a couple of alien starships and then applying my photographic and Photoshop skills to put them in some star systems not too far away. Scratch building the Golden Starliner You start by going to the dentist for a teeth cleaning and scaling. 🙂 […]
Once again the Millennium Falcon is on the run. Once again in this non-canon, non-legend Star Wars Micromachines diorama, the Falcon is trying to hide out in a crater on an unnamed, uncharted minor planet at the edge of that galaxy far far away, perhaps in the mysterious “Unknown Regions.” Unfortunately for the Millennium Falcon […]