Another evening doodling...

This time, it's a space probe. Not really, but it was more of a practice, to see about making a segmented arm. On with the pictures!

It's quite big! Note the recessed thrusters, fully pose-able!

With sensors banks extended, for scanning things which will be fixed by...

...The arms! Universal joints allow them to bend pretty much anyway you want it to!

An evening doodling results in...

A random fighter type thing. Inspired by a lot of different designs I saw here and there. And a splash of red paint, because that's how I roll.

With an updated paint job, and...

...rear view, showing engines.

Troop Carrier

Hey folks! Sorry about the long wait, and the unfulfilled promise of dropshipness, but here is something else instead! (And it does have the dropships in it).

Presenting, the Troop Carrier, all the army you'll ever need conveniently stored in one spaceship!

Rather than try to make a highly detailed ship (as it either crashes my laptop or I get bored) I thought I'd have a go at making one big ship, with lots of little ones. As we all know, its quantity over quality, right? The bit of dirt in the bottom left is a person, for scale reference.

First up, we see the escape pods! There are 54 total, 6 on either side at the front, and 21 on each flank. Each one can seat about 10 people. Cosy!

Next, the HERV or Human Exoatmospheric Re-entry Vehicle. Basically a box with a parachute that fires a soldier down to the ground in. Totally stolen from the Halo universe, where the ODST's use them. Though, interestingly, the US military is looking at a similar idea, to be able to deploy troops anywhere on Earth within 4 hours.

A shot of the hangers now. There is a door on either side, and one underneath, to allow the maximum amount of movement in the shortest amount of time. There are two hangers, fore and aft, and each has it's own set of doors. You can see two dropships exiting from the underbelly, and a cargo ship leaving from the side.

An interior shot of one hanger bay. The ships are packed in, 10 cargo ships and 14 dropships per hanger. Again, the speck at the front is a person, for scale reference.

Engines at the rear. I like 'em big! (Italian Job reference)

A shot of the underside, so you can see both the hangers, and all the drop pods.

That's all for now folks, enjoy!

Sneaky preview!

Very quickly, here's a picture of some dropships I made, with various uses.

I'll do a bigger post tomorrow, promise!

It's not all about space!

Hello again! I must admit, I'm bored with reality. I don't always understand the point of making something that's already been made, hence why a lot of my designs are spaceships. Of course, it could be that I'm just not good enough to accurately replicate things, but hey. But, every now and then, I get the urge to build something that works, or something that's real, or perhaps just looks nice. So, with that in mind, may I humbly present some designs that are more...down to earth?

A concept for an idea, a stackable apartment block that could have as many or as few levels as was required, and was modular to build.

The finished article, not as high, but it can be fitted with as many floors as necessary.  it comes in several main modules. the main 'skin' of a floor, the apartments within it, the stairs and corridors connecting them and a roof.

A model I love, it's a dream house of mine, with a balcony, pool and library.  I made a full interior  for this one, and hopefully I shall show you more of it one day.

A practice at building terrain, and my first real use of  of using 'intersect' to cut through irregular shapes, its a...zoo? Or a park, maybe? I imagine it at the centre of a futuristic enclosed city.

An earlier terrain practise, mountains this time. And then I built a castle on it, and added a spaceport, because it's where the space pirates live. Ok, so maybe it is all about space :P

Runrig - Loch Lomond

Everybody listen to this, NOW!

Right, lets start as we mean to go on! With a bunch of models! Some of these are new, some are old, they're just pictures I had laying around.

A tank of some sort, in camo colours

A mech, with the first half decent legs I ever made

One of my later models, and one I really like, an assault shuttle. I  actually made a full interior with this one, I may do a post on it another day.

Click for bigger pics (hopefully)

First!

Hello and welcome, one and..well, probably just one, but we all have to start somewhere, eh? I'm Steve, and in my spare time I like to build things in 3d. I use Google SketchUp, which I heartily recommend you get if you haven't already. the models aren't great, or detailed (or even finished sometimes!) but hopefully you will enjoy them. Comments and questions are welcome, and encouraged.

Cheers!

Steve