More toy dinosaur photos
September 8, 2018
Some images of dinosaurs from a toy photo class I taught in July.
Author: Robin Rowland
The GT-1350 Smuggler Interceptor
July 12, 2018
(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 […]
Modelling Andre Norton’s “baldie” starship
April 4, 2018
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 […]
Turning router packing into a ruined alien temple
December 31, 2017
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 […]
Star Wars in camo II. A forward observation post on the front line
November 22, 2017
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 […]
A pirate starship chase, scratch built from toothbrush packages
September 21, 2017
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. 🙂 […]
The hunt for the Millennium Falcon – the diorama
April 26, 2017
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 […]
“Do or do not. There is no try” – the diorama
April 21, 2017
For my second diorama (the first was the Emperor Palpatine and his guards) I tackled two scenes, from different perspectives from The Empire Strikes Back. Photographed from one side, young Luke has arrived at the swamp world of Dagobah and has met Yoda. Shot from the reverse angle and using forced perspective, the frustrated Luke […]