Author: KenMcConnell

GCU Griffin Build, Part 1

The GCU Griffin is a prominent starship in the Starstrikers novel. It’s a Class-C Scanner ship, smaller than most other fleet starships it has to rely on bigger ships to protect it. It was such an important ship, I actually…

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Novel Bits and Pieces – Movie Soundtracks

      When I’m actually writing my first draft of a novel I only listen to movie soundtracks. I can’t be distracted by lyrics so listening to songs is out for me. But for some reason, instrumental pieces seem…

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Triak Starfighter Build, Part 5

Weathering This is one of my favorite steps in modeling. I love making a model look like it just came out of the real world where it has lived a long and hard life. Weathering sounds like it should only…

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Triak Starfighter Build, Part 4

Painting  I wanted to show off how the model looked in the pristine, gray primer stage to see how it might have looked on the factory floor. I have decided to let the gray primer be the undercoat or base…

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Triak Starfighter Build, Part 3

All of the parts and pieces finally come together in this post. This has been a fairly quick and dirty build for me. I’ve never done a kit bashed starfighter before and in many ways it felt like cheating. I…

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Writing Update, December 2015

As 2015 winds down I thought I’d update you all on my writing adventures. 2014 and 2015 saw me producing two novels and two novellas. The novellas (Devon’s Blade and The Blood Empress) have been published as ebooks on Kindle,…

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