> How about a luxury space hotel or a cruise ship with large transparent
I was thinking of something along those lines, though I haven't started on any
specifics yet. Perhaps I'll start sketching and see what I can come up
with...
Another problem is that the techniques I use to sculpt don't lend themselves
to machinery very well, I've got to work on that.
> Also, colonial settlements for Dirtside with large glass cupolas.
Do you have any good references? Aside from a standard geodesic dome I can't
picture this...
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:08:55 -0500 Thomas Pope <tpope@cs.cmu.edu>
writes:
> Also, colonial settlements for Dirtside with large glass cupolas.
My slant. Get 6mm (or other <grin>) scale building set. Place clear plastic
'leftover storage' container (round or rectangle) over it. Imagine any
antennas, towers, or other 'appropriate things' sticking out. sketch. sculpt.
[This from a man who would have flunked Drawing 101 if the professor thought I
was an art major instead of a cartography
student...]
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> How about a luxury space hotel or a cruise ship with large transparent
I was thinking of something along those lines, though I haven't started on any
specifics yet. Perhaps I'll start sketching and see what I can come up
with...
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That's what I had in mind awhile ago; basically, the little press-down
domes on plastic cup lids mounted on some flat space of other ship models. I
know I've seen art of similar things many places.
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> Also, colonial settlements for Dirtside with large glass cupolas.
Do you have any good references? Aside from a standard geodesic dome I can't
picture this...
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I know the first idea I had for the cruise ships were geodesic along the lines
of the Berkshires in Silent Running, but trying to recreate that pattern...
*shudder*
The_Beast
-Douglas J. Evans, curmudgeon
One World, one Web, one Program - Microsoft promotional ad
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> At 10:24 AM 1/12/01 -0600, you wrote:
> That's what I had in mind awhile ago; basically, the little press-down
I intend to make an asteroid settlement in a similar fashion. I've been saving
domes from gumball containers for years now.... Ideally, I'd like to terrain
the interior of the dome; at this scale it would be very easy to create a
fields, a small forest, maybe even a small lake.
In an ideal world, one where I knew what I was doing, I'd include a grain
of wheat bulb at the top of the dome to act as an artificial sun -- the
body of the asteroid could certainly fit a battery, and the result would look
(I think) Pretty Damn Good.
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I intend to make an asteroid settlement in a similar fashion. I've been saving
domes from gumball containers for years now.... Ideally, I'd like to terrain
the interior of the dome; at this scale it would be very easy to create a
fields, a small forest, maybe even a small lake.
In an ideal world, one where I knew what I was doing, I'd include a grain
of wheat bulb at the top of the dome to act as an artificial sun -- the
body of the asteroid could certainly fit a battery, and the result would look
(I think) Pretty Damn Good.
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Just when I'm convinced I'm the craziest mo-fo on the planet... ;->=
I'm somehow reminded of the fellow that does the Really Big Aliens game at
GenCon; the cargo walker, I assume at 25mm scale, has a rotating caution
light.
'Absolutely baaaad aaaaassss.'
The_Beast
-Douglas J. Evans, curmudgeon
One World, one Web, one Program - Microsoft promotional ad
> At 12:53 PM 1/12/01 -0600, you wrote:
Oh, I have many grand ideas that will never actually happen. A year or so ago,
I was babbling about an idea for a space station that would hover above the
table, suspended by magnetic repulsion.... I still think that I could get it
to work, but I don't know if American Science and Surplus is still selling the
bits that I would have used to make it.
The people I game with have infected me with this kind of nonsense. In the
past, we've run games with smoking volcanoes, lakes with real live fish
swimming in them, temples with flickeing lights built into them to simulate
flame....
Crazy people. We should all be thankful that I don't have the skills to
actually realize my insane visions.
> Oh, I have many grand ideas that will never actually happen. A year
I remember an article in a modelling magazine about a 1/72 scale harrier
jump jet hovering by this method. Would be neat for space ship minis. metal
ones are probably too heavy, though.
Greetings Karl Heinz