This Millennium Falcon Toy Is Straight Out of Star Wars After a New Paint Job
The Millennium Falcon toy looked a bit too clean when it came out of the box, so Tristan Elliot painted and weathered it to its Jakku glory.
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3D Print the Spaceships from Syfy Channel’s “The Expanse”
Are we on the verge of a future where we can 3D print the fantastic worlds that we see on TV?
Explore This Rare Gallery of Hyper Detailed Star Wars Models
The site Slightly Warped Curiosities has posted this wonderful, rare gallery of close-up photos of the Industrial Light & Magic spaceship models used in the first Star Wars trilogy. Anyone who scratch-builds models knows the importance of “grebble” — that’s the baroque surface detail–usually cool-looking bits “kit-bashed” from other models–added to make a ship look more […]
Scratchbuilt: The “Swift” from “Space 1999”
Alex Dumas of Sci-High Models took Editor’s Choice in Starship Modeler’s 2010 Just Glue It contest with this 1/87 scale replica of the Swift, a spacecraft from the late-70s British TV series Space: 1999. Do not miss his wonderful work-in-progress shots, one of which I’ve included, below, to show off the remarkable patience and skill […]
First computer on the moon
Here’s a really fascinating piece on the BBC about NASA programmer Don Eyles and the team behind the storied AGC (Apollo Guidance Computer). Don was only 23 when he got the gig. Maybe it was good that he was young and naive. As he says: “I don’t recall the risk and the responsibility and the […]
They used to make spaceships here
As the current Space Shuttle mission (STS-125) comes to a close, the Shuttle is nearing the end of its functional life, its final mission slated for 2010. On a recent visit to Downey, CA, near Los Angeles, I had the chance to visit a series of buildings, now empty, that were the birthplace of the […]
