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… Read More »Novel Bits and Pieces – Movie Soundtracks
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
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… Read More »Triak Starfighter Build, Part 4
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 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,… Read More »Writing Update, December 2015
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
The Triak starfighter was derived from the Two Piper design from the start of the Great War. The design goes back to the 1980s when I was still in High School. I always imagined there were dozens of starfighter designs… Read More »Triak Starfighter Build, Part 1