Makery
My Workshop
Last summer, my wife and I bought our first home. One of our (my) requirements was a workshop, or at least the potential for a workshop. We're now many projects into the renovation of our home, but I wanted to share a teaser image of one of the rooms that I've spent a fair bit of time working on.
We called it "the cat pee room." You can't tell from this "Before" picture, but it was physically difficult to spend more than a few moments in the room, as the carpet was saturated with... well... you know. I'm sure our agent thought we were nuts...
Soon, I'll post some "After" pictures of my workshop—still a work in progress, but a major transformation nonetheless.
Daedalus Re-Imagined
I'll be honest... I've never liked the Daedalus design. I've always found it uninspired, with terribly gross lines. As a precursor to the famous "Starship Enterprise" of Star Trek fame, I think it's a clunker. When the design for the Enterprise from the series of the same name was released, I decided to re-imagine the Daedalus to better match the revised technological and visual canon from this prequel series.
Talon Class Romulan Frigate
The following model is my build-up of a resin kit that I built the master for. The resin Kit is currently available from Ravenstar Studios.
I envisioned the Talon class serving the same role in the Romulan fleet that the Klingon Bird of Prey fills in the Klingon navy. The Talon aesthetic is intended to fall somewhere within the TNG and Nemesis eras.
As part of this kit, I also mastered a model base displaying the Romulan Empire logo from Star Trek: Nemesis.
M-Wing Heavy Fighter/Bomber
The Republic M-Wing Heavy Fighter/Bomber was my entry in the Starship Modeler Star Wars Online Model Competition. The entry was built relatively quickly, kit-bashed from a 1/32 scale F-4 Phantom II kit that I had lying around. A few small parts were scavanged from an "Anakin's Podracer" kit and a couple of others, but 90% of the parts from this kit came from the Phantom.
Didn't win the Contest, but it was fun anyway!
M1104 Plasma Sidearm
This 1:1 (Full scale) scratchbuild is a futuristic weapon of my own design.
One of my goals for this model was to go the extra mile of building a 1:1 prop that is as functional as possible, meaning that not only do the trigger and safety switch articulate, but the ammunition magazine is removable, and the weapon can be field-stripped to its basic components.
To achieve this level of functionality, it was necessary to build with very close tolerances in the parts that intermesh. If I had a milling machine, this would be fairly easy, but my primary tools for this project are limited to a Dremel, a 1" belt sander, and hand-tools. To overcome this limitation, I built the core frame of the model using nesting extruded aluminum purchased from Home Depot. The body of the weapon was then built up from this frame using Magic-Sculp epoxy putty.
Special Thanks go to Mel Williams for turning the barrel on his lathe for me.
