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Offline Volkodav

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #25 on: February 07, 2014, 03:58:51 PM »
Looking at some of those inspiration pics I think you could probably find something suitable to base a model on at a sex shop :-[

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #26 on: February 08, 2014, 04:22:01 AM »
More if you click on the picture

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #27 on: February 11, 2014, 12:43:04 AM »
 There are a lot of good spaceship designs in there...I wish the ground forces were as well illustrated, but this is a treat.

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #28 on: February 11, 2014, 01:57:42 AM »
Spooky - I was reading a discussion about future hand wepaons last night and went looking for 2300AD stuff for the first time in years because I wanted some info on the binary propellant weapons.

That's a great link - nice one!  :)
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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #29 on: February 12, 2014, 05:45:46 PM »
Ah, those were the days:

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #30 on: February 12, 2014, 05:51:12 PM »
I had thought it might be Project Orion. Impressive vehicles by any standard.

You were saying...

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #31 on: February 12, 2014, 05:59:48 PM »
Lots of inspiration here
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Offline Spey Phantom

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #32 on: February 13, 2014, 12:23:23 AM »
after seeing this scene in The Lego Movie,
guess who else is exited to build a spaceship  ;D

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Offline Spey Phantom

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #33 on: February 13, 2014, 06:42:27 PM »
Belgium went to space long before the Americans did  ;D



we were also the first to put a tank on the moon :)

« Last Edit: February 13, 2014, 06:45:04 PM by nils »
on the bench:
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on the drawing board:
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-1/72 Eurocopter Tiger (Belgian Army)
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Offline Weaver

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #34 on: February 14, 2014, 10:16:39 AM »
Lots of inspiration here


Thought that looked familiar. That's Winchell Chung's page: the same Winchell Chung who did the illustrations for the OGRE wargame : http://www.projectrho.com/.

The hieroglyphs down the side of that page are from another favorite artist of mine, Patrick Woodroffe : http://www.patrickwoodroffe-world.com/


Here's some space inspiration from Winchell's DeviantArt page, a Warp War starship:

http://nyrathwiz.deviantart.com/gallery/43345554



The original from 1977:



I used to play Warp War back in the day: probably still got it in a box upstairs.... :-*
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Offline Dr. YoKai

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #35 on: February 15, 2014, 03:35:54 AM »
I might still have Warp War someplace...I've been toting my Microgames around with me for years.
Winchell is a terrific guy, by the way - we've corresponded off and on for about ten years. I think he did
the original art for Warp War - he also did some Traveller work, including the starship Annic Nova...



Those are not Warp nacelles, by the way -they're shuttles.

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #36 on: February 15, 2014, 05:12:02 AM »
Oh lucky you: never met him but I always got the impression he was one of the good guys. He did indeed do the original art for Warp War, right after he did OGRE.
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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #37 on: February 15, 2014, 06:03:06 AM »
For given values of luck ;) Winch and I have never actually met in meatspace - we just stumbled into the same forum ( Starship Modeler ) and became friends. A lrage part of the reason for that was our mutual fascination ( and his, and our own Frank2056's
far superior knowledge of - ) with the 'Leif Ericson Galactic Cruiser'. It spawned a long running sub-forum there : http://www.starshipmodeler.net/talk/viewforum.php?f=39  chock full of a number of different ideas about the origins, background
and future of this obscure model kit.

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #38 on: February 15, 2014, 11:42:45 AM »
Ah, those were the days:


Nah, non-rotating space stations are a dead end (see ISS). These were the good old days (the Von Braun station):


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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #39 on: February 15, 2014, 11:45:53 AM »
This would have been so much better than the David Lynch worm vomit:

Jodorowsky's Dune Trailer


Jodorosky's Dune: http://jodorowskysdune.com/

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #40 on: February 15, 2014, 08:47:55 PM »
For given values of luck ;) Winch and I have never actually met in meatspace - we just stumbled into the same forum ( Starship Modeler ) and became friends. A lrage part of the reason for that was our mutual fascination ( and his, and our own Frank2056's
far superior knowledge of - ) with the 'Leif Ericson Galactic Cruiser'. It spawned a long running sub-forum there : http://www.starshipmodeler.net/talk/viewforum.php?f=39  chock full of a number of different ideas about the origins, background
and future of this obscure model kit.


There's a lot of stuff on his website, including some nifty CG artwork, of the Leif Ericson.
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"I've jazzed mine up a bit" - Spike Milligan

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #41 on: February 15, 2014, 08:54:04 PM »
This would have been so much better than the David Lynch worm vomit:

Jodorowsky's Dune Trailer

Jodorosky's Dune: http://jodorowskysdune.com/


It was a shame that Jodorowsky's project crashed. He's VERY eccentric, right up there in David Lynch territory, but I'd have liked to see the result, whether I ended up liking it or not. We need more eccentrics making oddball films instead of the under-seasoned, same-flavour sausages we get from the Hollywood meat grinder.

The good thing to come out of Jodorowsky's Dune was, indirectly, Alien. Many of the creative team he put together maintained links and were picked up by Dan O'Bannon shortly thereafter. The Making Of Alien book (which is gorgeous if you havn't seen it) is full of references to the preceding Dune project.


Jodorowsky collaborated with the late great Moebius (Jean Giraud) on his Incal graphic novels. Now that would have been a movie and a half: not a snowball in Hell's chance of it ever happening though...*

The Incal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incal


*although director Nicolas Winding Refn (freind of Jodorowsky) has said that he wants to try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Winding_Refn  I'll suspend my disbelief when I see it though... ;)
« Last Edit: February 15, 2014, 09:39:35 PM by Weaver »
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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #42 on: February 15, 2014, 09:22:54 PM »
I didn't realise until I was researching that last post that Jean Giraud had died in 2012, shortly after Ralph McQuarrie. RIP Moebius.... :(

His work was utterly, breathtakingly beautiful: comic book pages you could hang in any gallery in the world:





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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #43 on: February 19, 2014, 12:07:03 AM »
Fine 12 minute summary of Dune and its issues being made... and then the issues it had being made.

Retrospective / Review - DUNE (1984) in HD


 :) worth a watch IMHO, helped things make more sense
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Offline Spey Phantom

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #44 on: February 22, 2014, 11:08:00 PM »
Do these songs count as inspiration?

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on the bench:
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on the drawing board:
-various 1/72 TinTin aircraft
-1/72 Eurocopter Tiger (Belgian Army)
-various other 1/72 and 1/144 aircraft

Offline Weaver

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #45 on: February 23, 2014, 08:29:01 AM »
Nice one Nils. :)

Reminded me of these:


Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite (lyrics)

(There are "proper" video for this one on youtube, but they don't particularly reflect the lyrics, which are important)



Canes Venatici - Underground Zero




Aimless Flight - Underground Zero

(this one is jam-packed with spaceship art)



Hawkwind - Space Is Deep

(This one is just gorgeous: put it on full screen and get er, lost (legally and responsibly, of course...))
"I have described nothing but what I saw myself, or learned from others" - Thucydides

"I've jazzed mine up a bit" - Spike Milligan

"I'm a general specialist," - Harry Purvis in Tales from the White Hart by Arthur C. Clarke

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Offline Spey Phantom

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #46 on: February 24, 2014, 04:55:32 AM »
nice, now im motivated again  8)

as bender would say to the JNM's: "I'll build my own Lunar Lander, With Blackjack and hookers"!


« Last Edit: February 24, 2014, 05:02:29 AM by nils »
on the bench:
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on the drawing board:
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-1/72 Eurocopter Tiger (Belgian Army)
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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #47 on: February 24, 2014, 10:41:57 AM »
nice, now im motivated again  8)

as bender would say to the JNM's: "I'll build my own Lunar Lander, With Blackjack and hookers"!




What's wrong with this picture? (It's not Bender)

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #48 on: February 24, 2014, 11:01:40 AM »
While at work (actually the den upstairs) I tune into Digitally Imported's Spacemusic feed.
Work in progress ::

I am giving up listing them. They all end up on the shelf of procrastination anyways.

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Offline Weaver

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Re: Space GB Inspiration
« Reply #49 on: March 10, 2014, 08:59:43 PM »
A whole page of British 1950s sci-fi art here from DRB. Excellent retro-inspiration!

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2014/03/exceptional-british-scifi-artwork-from.html

Just a few examples:





"I have described nothing but what I saw myself, or learned from others" - Thucydides

"I've jazzed mine up a bit" - Spike Milligan

"I'm a general specialist," - Harry Purvis in Tales from the White Hart by Arthur C. Clarke

Twitter: @hws5mp
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