Category Archives: Art

Featured Inspirational Art, 9 Feb 2012

Proof that I have absolutely no shame, today’s picture is a washed out Kodachrome shot of myself at age 13 with several of my giant cardboard starship models.
These models were built from carpet roll tubes and store bought poster board. They were decorated with bits of model parts. Do you like that Luke Skywalker hair [...]

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Featured Inspirational Art, 7 Feb 2012

If you have read my novel Starveyors, you may recall this starfighter. An earlier version of this one, the A-9, was featured in that novel. This model was built from cardboard and bits of spare plastic pieces including a glue bottle cap and a Chapstick cap. Photograph by Bill Blohm.

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Desktop Modelling

Thought I’d share some pics of the new, smaller GCU Sokol model. First up, a size comparison, so you know why I decided to scale down.

Now for a few close ups. First up are the details that will go on top of the engines.

Next up is of course the bottom of the engines. I have [...]

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Scaling Down My Models

I’ve decided to scale down my efforts at building more starship models. The epic size of the GCU Sokol model has made working on it a real problem. The damned thing is just too freaking big for my house. It has been relegated to the garage for all of its life, because moving it inside [...]

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Featured Inspirational Art, 2 Feb 2012

Today’s featured art is the Gull Scrambler from Starforgers.
This design was dreamed up for the short stories and then of course featured in the novel. I was going for a 1950′s jet fighter look and feel. But the design is more bird-like than any other of my starfighter designs. I think I did the outline [...]

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Featured Inspirational Art, 31 Jan 2012

Today’s Inspirational Art is a Votainion Terror Diver from the Starstrikers Era of the Star Trilogy.
The design is originally mine, but this art is much better than I could do. The artist’s name escapes me now, I met him on DeviantArt. I especially love the skull and the monster with teeth or something on the [...]

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Featured Inspirational Art, 26 Jan 2012

Today’s featured art is from CalinCosmin from Deviantart.com
It’s Corvin Castle in Romania. But I thought it looked like the Emperor’s castle on Voton as  seen in all three Star Trilogy books.

 

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Featured Inspirational Art, 24 Jan 2012

Today’s featured art is by Stock7000 from DeviantArt.com
This is how I imagined the planet Kirii from Starveyors. The planet is seen briefly in the novel, when the Silicant named Saibot visits the ocean floor looking for signs of the Ancients. The planet is part of the Votainion Empire.

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Classic Sci-Fi Book Cover, #3

Galactic Patrol by E. E. “Doc” Smith
3rd Printing, 1967
The lighting for this picture was not the best. Sorry that it’s grainy. Will redo it in the future. I like the interesting use of positive space (nebula) around the spacemen to separate them from the black of outer space.

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Featured Inspirational Art, 17 Jan 2012

Today’s featured art is by yours truly and is posted on Flickr.
It’s Trogen Starfighter from my novel, Starforgers. This is the experimental fighter that Red Allen lets Devon Ardel fly during the attack on Selene. The original design dates back to the late 1970′s. I brought it up to date with heavy influences from current [...]

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