Mounting The Griffin was not going to be a large and heavy model, like the Renoke. It was a smaller starship than the GCU Sokol and would be built to the same scale as that model, 1/350. I’ve had some… Read More »GCU Griffin Build, Part 2
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… Read More »Triak Starfighter Build, Part 5
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… Read More »Triak Starfighter Build, Part 3
As with any airplane model, you start with the insides. Here I used the wheel well turned upside down for the seat bucket. Then added details to the side walls as needed. In looking back at this build after I… Read More »Triak Starfighter Build, Part 2
Work has commenced on the initial outline of K’nat Trap. I use Plume Creator for all my first drafts and below is a screenshot of Plume and the outline. Plume has a spreadsheet view for outlining, but lately I’ve taken… Read More »Outlining K’nat Trap Novella
I supplied some photos of the model and they supplied the creative composition and cosmic images to create a unique background for your computer. The model is also featured on the back cover of the second Star Saga paperback novel,… Read More »GCU Sokol on Starship Modeler’s Free Desktop for May
You can now order the paperback editions of the first two books available in the Star Saga. Of course these are the trilogy starters, Starforgers and Starstrikers, books 1 and 4 respectively. Next month we’ll release book 7, Starveyors. These… Read More »Star Saga in Paperback
The latest proof for my paperback versions of the Star Saga novels arrived this week. Above is a picture of both books together. We opted to go with a series banner at the top and this causes a slight realignment… Read More »Paperback Proof of Starstrikers
Here’s a sneak peek at the new cover for the paperback version of Starstrikers. The biggest change is of course the red banner declaring it a part of the Star Saga. The banner is also home to the Starstrikers Era… Read More »Paperback Cover for Starstrikers
My friend Nate and I did an impromptu photo shoot with my GCU Sokol model today in the HP parking lot. Yes, those are piles of snow. We were trying to get some HD pics of the model for back… Read More »Model and the Man