We Talk to the Mystery Maker Behind the 3D Printed Railgun
Make: talks to the man behind the homemade, portable railgun that the net has gone nuts over.
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Playing a Hypothetical Star Wars “X-Wings on Endor” Battle
Watch what happens when wargamers build a stunning Star Wars gaming table in a day and write their own rules for playing on it.
CNC Your Own Star Wars AT-AT
The AT-ATrinket is a functional and decorative Star Wars AT-AT-shaped box cut from MDF using a CNC router.
Take a Mad Max: Fury Road-Inspired Watercolor Tutorial
I love this watercolor tutorial using a scene from Mad Max: Fury Road as the subject. Well-known artist/illustrator Scott C. (Scott Campbell) shows you how he uses reference shots from the film, does some preliminary sketches, composites the scene based on those sketches, and then, casually step-by-step, how he went about painting up the final […]
This Incredible Halo Diorama Will Blow You Away
Andrew Theo, a creative director in the entertainment business by day, has spent several years of his nights bringing the digital world of Halo to life. Dubbed Halo: Reclaim, this 4’×6′ hobby diorama took Theo two years to build, using the McFarlene Toys’ roughly 15mm scale Halo Micro Ops line for the soldiers and their […]
This Isn’t a Drawing, This is a Physical Model
You’d be forgiven for doing a double-take, a triple-take, or even insisting that this is a clever ‘shop job, but you’d be mistaken. This is a 1/12-scale version of a power suit model from the Starship Troopers anime series, done by Japanese modeler mumumuno53. To achieve this amazing effect, he relied on using a paper-colored […]
Battle of Hoth Recreated on Gaming Table for Salute 2015
The team over at the popular wargaming portal Beasts of War has been putting together a magnificent Battle of Hoth gaming table for this weekend’s Salute 2015 (the massive U.K. gaming convention). They ran a contest to create a set of game rules for the board and are bringing the winner, Grant Ennis, to Salute […]
