Building the Spaceship off the Cover of an Old Sci-Fi Book
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ค. 2024
- Link to David Mattingly's art:
www.davidmattingly.com/
Link to my Etsy where you can buy templates to build your own models:
sublightdrive.etsy.com
This was a fun exercise. I may try it again in the future, if this video goes over well!
Materials Used:
Styrene sheets, in .020'' (.5 mm) and .040'' (1 mm) weight
Several dome-shaped pieces from a Saturn V model kit
IPS Weld On 3
Acrylic paints in several colors
Satin clearcoat
Oil paints for weathering
A silver alcohol pen for scrapes and details
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:16 Choosing a Book
1:25 Assembly
8:24 Details
10:06 Painting
16:19 Outro
Can't beat the designs of Peter Elson or John Berkey as potential subjects.
This is a cool idea; there are a lot of very neat looking spaceships from the golden age of old sci-fi art I would love to see someone translate to a physical, 3D model.
Hard to imagine the background music was all you beatboxing. What an incredible skill! Keep it up!
Love your presentation and methodical, lo tech approach. Always great results. This shop has a real Moebius feel to it.
You nailed it “if hasbro died tomorrow, D&D would continue” it’s like owning a classic car, there is a whole community of like minded committed people out there who will continue to support players and DMs. That’s before we even talk about other systems 👍
and yet again a nother amazing build
idea for spaceship: elite dangerous/star citizen
I plan on making my version of the Consular Class Cruiser from Star Wars as a retro-fitted mining rig. A beautiful construction "Caterpillar" yellow too. It's my dream ship.
That turned out beautiful! I love the idea and the execution... Great job!!!
cool build. reminded me of the "O'Neil Class" from Star gate franchise. most probably inspiration for it. esp as 'pyramids' lol
The "splotchiness" looks like a hammered iron finish, which I think is rad
Right? I wasn’t too worried about it since it looked cool, even if it wasn’t what I intended.
you probably have, but in case not, have you considered browsing the Concept Ship Blog? I'm sure there'll be an interesting build in there somewhere
Love it!!!
This is a very interesting idea.
This is another great job, the old sci-fi covers were full of these strange, incredible ships, but probabilly without G. Lucas' dreams we never would've seen any in movies or tv, given how science fiction was regarded until late '70s. Keep working!
P.s. there was a site, desktopstarships, that sadly seems close, that had a lot of excellent ideas, now they are on renderosity or deviantart, you could try them for inspiration.👍
Nice job. Will done it looks amazing.
So very good! Well done!
Very cool idea!
This one makes me think you could pull off the Leif Erickson spaceship.
Another awesome build! Lots of round edges. Another ship with round edges I think you could pull off greatly is the Archimedes from Watchmen!
I remember that book from high school. That cover always intrigued me and has stuck with me ever since. Cool to see you actually building that ship from one of my favorite book covers.
HEY! you did it! :D
I'm glad to see these books getting the love they deserve.
well... not the books per-say... but the cover art
The model looks great and I think you replicated the cover art beautifully. Thanks for sharing this.
Love the idea! I wonder what other spaceship gem designs are hiding out there...
Is it just me or does that look like the Autobot shuttle from Transformers the movie?
No criticism here at all, btw. Nice work on the build ^_^
You’re the Wayne D. Barlowe of spacecraft.
If you want to try doing more ships-from-old-covers, you could try a hand at the Azhanti High Lightining, from the cover of the eponymous Traveller game! It's a bit boxy, but has some interesting features that might make it a (simple but) good challenge.
That one could be a lot of fun! Traveller IS my favorite RPG with big “filling out your taxes” vibes, after all.
first - Fred Saberhagen rules - check out the BERZERKER and BOOK OF SWORDS series.
second - it kind of reminds me of a curvier Beliskner-class from Stargate SG1
Third - amazing work. I wish i had your talent
Saberhagen is an awesome author and I loved his Book of Swords series. This book seems to have eluded me, I've never read it and frankly never heard of it before now. (I will have to try and track it down now.)
The ship is wicked cool and looks just like the cover art. Great job!!
awesome video! in terms of recommendations, i'd love to see you try something from the game Citizen Sleeper? I think it fits your style quite well
You should try your hand at making the Michael from the novel Footfall!
Damn that turned out so lovely! Really digging the radiator you added to the backside :)
Great job! keep it up! Can I ask what the background music was? Its so calming
If yo are up for a challenge I would love to see you do a Chris Foss ship like the one from the jodorowskys dune book
Lol im kinda curious if you could scratch build Warhammer ships or space hulks
Probably. Warhammer stuff tends to be big and chunky, which I think lends itself well to scratchbuilding.
Have you considered a Chris Foss ship ?
Make something from Incal! 🙌
how about a ST/SW hybrid... Ent-A in SW or ISD in ST?
What is this song? I absolutely love it and need ot in my life :). Does anyone know?
Ah yes pyramids, I remember them fondly. It was my interest in the link between the ancient and the possible future that drove me to a few truths:
1. Why did humanity split the atom bomb?
2. Why did humanity split the atom?
3. The energies at play (metapsychically) split the atom bomb to keep humanity from the path of sidhartha Buddha of eastern and
4. L. Ron. Hubbard of western philosophy’s. SAD!
5. Aliens, and by extension spaceships are representative of (meta physically) our desire and /very real/ connection to the beyond and the enlightenment
6. We remember that which has not happened
7:7:7:7 could the atom bomb be put back together?
Same
This is true, there's a lot of good information on this topic in the documentary Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
How do you determine which shapes you’ll need to cut out?
I really like your triangle! Do you have a link?
This after I watched the video. The ship turned out great! Did you send the artist a pic?
I don't have a link for it, but it's just an aluminum drafting triangle. I bought it as part of a pack of other drafting tools a long time ago. Unless you mean the machinist's square, that I just found on amazon.
@@Sublight_Drive yep the triangle. I have a set of the small squares I got for machining. I have found that I use them more on my modeling bench then in the shop.
I will keep a eye out for metal triangles.
Dude...at the risk of sounding dumb, I have to ask if you’ve ever heard of Chris Foss? I think you would love his stuff.
Of course! Most of his stuff is too organic and wibbly shaped for the techniques I use, but I want to try re-creating one of his paint schemes, at some point.