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It is so work!
Right. So as one of my ideas for generating art for the SF con next month (aaaaugh!), and as stretching my wings a bit, I thought I'd try to paint some space scenes, with spaceships and stuff like that. Of course, I am utter crap at designing mechanical stuff. But then I was reading through one of my how-to-art books, James Gurney's Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist, and he suggested kitbashing--getting cheap model kits and basically, randomly gluing bits together until they look like a spaceship.
That I thought I could do. So I hied myself off to a couple of arts and crafts stores and bought models they had on sale, and have spent the past week or so wandering by the living room coffee table, where all of this is spread out, and randomly (well, maybe not quite so randomly), gluing bits together until they looked like spaceships.
I've just taken photos of them.
And what I've learned from the photos is that I need to pull Toby away from his current videogame and have him hold them, because I can't hold them out far enough to get the entire ship in focus. :)
Kitbashed Spaceship 1:
Kitbashed Spaceship 2:
Kitbashed Spaceship 3:
Spaceship 2 is pretty obviously, at least to me, some sort of freighter, with one lousy gun on the top to protect itself. It was originally going to be some sort of non-spaceship wheeled transport, until I glued a set of car seats upside down to a wheel base that I'd mutilated and the car seats looked like exhaust ports, and I needed something that needed exhaust ports and glued them together.
Spaceship 3 wasn't doing much of anything until I glued the grey bit to the top and all of a sudden the scale changed from small to MASSIVE and it became...er, some sort of MASSIVE starship.
Spaceship 1 is kind of sleek, although in the dead of space you don't really need sleek that much and I've got too much crap on all sides for it to be able to land in atmosphere. :D
Thoughts? (Does anything stick out and go HEY THIS IS A CAR PART or something?) I probably ought to get some grey flat spray paint and paint them all one color, but that would be work.
That I thought I could do. So I hied myself off to a couple of arts and crafts stores and bought models they had on sale, and have spent the past week or so wandering by the living room coffee table, where all of this is spread out, and randomly (well, maybe not quite so randomly), gluing bits together until they looked like spaceships.
I've just taken photos of them.
And what I've learned from the photos is that I need to pull Toby away from his current videogame and have him hold them, because I can't hold them out far enough to get the entire ship in focus. :)
Kitbashed Spaceship 1:
Kitbashed Spaceship 2:
Kitbashed Spaceship 3:
Spaceship 2 is pretty obviously, at least to me, some sort of freighter, with one lousy gun on the top to protect itself. It was originally going to be some sort of non-spaceship wheeled transport, until I glued a set of car seats upside down to a wheel base that I'd mutilated and the car seats looked like exhaust ports, and I needed something that needed exhaust ports and glued them together.
Spaceship 3 wasn't doing much of anything until I glued the grey bit to the top and all of a sudden the scale changed from small to MASSIVE and it became...er, some sort of MASSIVE starship.
Spaceship 1 is kind of sleek, although in the dead of space you don't really need sleek that much and I've got too much crap on all sides for it to be able to land in atmosphere. :D
Thoughts? (Does anything stick out and go HEY THIS IS A CAR PART or something?) I probably ought to get some grey flat spray paint and paint them all one color, but that would be work.
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I spent the first few days thinking that it was all crap and I had wasted money on the models and nothing was going to work out and the all of a sudden things started looking like spaceships. I'm still frustrated by wheels--I glued various wheels that came in the kits to various axles, but none of them really worked out for the transport-turned-freighter. I bought a tank (the turret became #3) for the treads, and actually put the treads together properly (except for the bit where I didn't), thinking I might use them, but ended up not doing so. I'll keep them for future model use.
So a qualified "not that hard, considering." :)
(And I'm annoyed that the chrome-like pieces that came with a couple of models don't work with the glue I have because I have rims and steering wheels that could be airlocks! And I can't put them on the spaceships!)
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#2 is freighter, tug, or drop ship.
#3 feels steampunky. One of those steam/aether powered airships floating a mile up.
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2) My hours of playing EVE Online suggests to me this is a small scale independant mining vessel. The "gun" is actually an oversized asteroid mining laser, the grill on the front is some sort of "ram scoop" that captures, grinds and filters the smaller rock chunks for precious whatevers-valuable-in-your-asteroid. It does still have an unfortunate feel of "armoured car" about it to me, mostly because of the "windshield" and the large black shield on the front combined with "front mounted weaponry" = dystopian authoritarian government vehicle to me for some reason. I blame comic books (I bet it was 2000 AD/ Judge Dredd's fault!)
I totally would not have got that those were car seats if you hadn't said so, because they are so clearly exhaust ports.
3) "Earth Force" command ship. Almost screams "I am a huge, important military vessel" to me along with "I don't need the really big guns because that's your job". This one seems to be the most conventional of all 3 to me, and other than everything being different colours I wouldn't have thought it was bodged together from different kits at all.
TL;DR: They all look "spaceship-y" and cool to me and I don't notice anything that obviously seems like it's an improperly used part of a model kit. I'm a little bit in awe because if I tried this I'd just be left with a big pile of jumbled, half melted plastic and absolutely nothing that resembled a spaceship.
My story line (not that you need a story line, but I'm up early and have nothing else to do) is that some troublesome outlaw raiders (#1), have been preying on the mining ships (#2) of a small asteroid colony/ family owned company, but a call for help has put out and now the system defense force is on the scene! (#3)
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