Makery
SSC M-2088 Plasma Sidearm
Like the M-882, this model was sitting around unfinished for a long time. I just barely finished this piece in time for Wonderfest (driving to Louisville with the windows down and wet paint curing in the back of the car).
SSC M-882 Plasma Grenade
This is one of those projects that has spent a long, long time in an incomplete state. Coming home from Wonderfest last year inspired me to finish this and several other models. Of course, here it is, March, and I'm just finishing up the one. Par for the course I guess. I've got another one coming along that sort of goes together with this one, but I'm not sure if it will finish in time for the contest.
Shooting Star
Update: The Shooting Star won a Bronze award at Wonderfest 2012!
The Shooting Star is a near-future, orbital, or supra-orbital fighter that I designed with a goal of realism. There are a lot of elements that make this a distinctive design. The first of which is that I've eschewed the primary tropes of Sci-fi space fighters.
There's no canopy, no streamlining, no wings, no "hyperdrive", and very limited armament. The only two concessions to SF convention I chose to make in the design are a small-scale fusion reactor for power, and the very notion of the reasonablility of a small-scale space-fighter in the first place. In fact, as I was designing this craft, the first problem I decided to solve was the logistics of how a fighter would be transported between engagements.
Talon Refit
This is a work-in-progress: A refit of my previous Talon Class Frigate. This master sits on a shelf above my workbench, waiting for me to get back to it.
Notable changes include more streamlined surfaces and graceful lines (especially the nose), increased volume in the transverse hull, and the addition of a square locator-pin for the transverse hull connection. I still haven't decided what the nacelles will look like.
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.