by Ken McConnell Ocher sands swirled around metal-covered lenses and slowly revealed the black face of an android. A signal awakened the metal man and set the lenses aglow. The soft light from twin stars cast long, dueling shadows over… Read More »Slag
The publishing process is still grinding away, there are two more vendors yet to be supported – Overdrive and Hoopla. But everywhere else on the list, you can either purchase or lend the books including Kobo, Kindle, Apple Books, and… Read More »Explorer Trilogy Now Available
For both of my most loyal readers, the long wait for the end of the Starship Series is almost over. I’m on target to release the ebooks to all vendors in time for this Christmas. The final book in this… Read More »Explorer Trilogy Inches Closer to Release
Moving on from the massive engine area of the Franklin, I finished boxing in the main hull shape with thick styrene sheets. When cutting long pieces of plastic, I just use a metal ruler and an Exacto knife, then bend… Read More »UCSDF Frankliln Build (Part 2)
This model is based on an old friend’s drawing in 1980 for the story that would become the Starstrikers novel. Jason Harrington used his imagination to improve the spaceship carrier idea we had developed a few years prior and built… Read More »UCSDF Franklin Build (Part 1)
I must have skipped my annual “I’m still here” post this year. Well, I’m still here. Better late than never. This year has been a disrupted one for me. I’ve changed my life and re-prioritized my focus on many things.… Read More »2024, Where Did You Go?
I’ve been reorganizing my online presence. Overall, the trend has been to reduce rather than to expand my presence on the inter-webs. I have decided to keep this website as my home base. So there are links here to where… Read More »Change is Coming
I suppose I should write a blog post this year before it becomes 2024. I’ve been working on the middle novella of the Explorers Trilogy. These are the last books of the Starship Series. So far I’m a little over… Read More »Writing Update
Last week I quite Twitter. My account is still there, reserved just in case. But I no longer post there. I don’t support the new management. I downloaded all of my content and stored it away for posterity. I don’t… Read More »Hello, Mastodon!
All of my models start with a drawing. Sometimes it’s just a thumbnail, sometimes it’s an orthogonal drawing similar to a blueprint. The later is what I started with for the Ranger. The shape of the ship lent itself to… Read More »SS Ranger Build Part 1