Very cool! I love the concept, and the execution is great as always.
That really is amazing. Very sophisticated computer control and steering fins.
http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/16892430560_f87dff78c0_o_1.jpg
Are the fins for use in the atmosphere, or are they vanes in the exhaust gas?
Lovely model - love the colour, love the whole Raygun Gothic-ness of it all.
Did you cast the flames yourself, or are they repurposed from something else?
Not even close. Nice model.
Geez, you make my adventures in making Mad Max style pony cars seem really tame by comparison. Great job, Rocketeer! I’d still like to see your take on a Damnation Alley Landmaster.
Thanks for your kind comments, everyone!
I cast the flames myself, from a master I made from Aves epoxy putty. I used Pebeo Gedeo resin, tinted with a drop or two of Tamiya acrylic transparent orange. The Pebeo resin is certainly the best clear resin I’ve used; sets up reliably, nice and clear when hard.
I used the same flames on this Eye Gone Wild model; I suppose if I do something similar again, I ought to make a new, different master–no sense getting stale. 
I have been mulling over something using the chassis from this, which has a certain Landmaster-y vibe. Perhaps a giant land cruise ship?
Once again, I love it. Do you have a gallery of your models by any chance?
A thought on making small, clear domes: Could you start with a sphere of salt or sugar, paint on a layer of clear resin, and then dissolve away the sphere in warm water?
After the Photobucket debacle, I’ve moved most of my online albums to Flickr.
(And here’s the old Photobucket link, if you have a masochistic longing for an insanely unusable melange of popups, intercepts, and slow loading. :rolleyes: :mad: Some of that stuff hasn’t been migrated to Flickr yet.)
It sounds feasible enough, except where would I get a nice sphere of salt?
I actually made a spherical mold and tried pouring a clear sphere with an embedded head–but of course, I’d really created a goofy-shaped lens, and the head looked crazy distorted. Whoops. 
Or perhaps I could have blow-molded something, or even shrugged my shoulders and vacuum-formed a couple halves and just lived with the seam line.
So really, on this model, it wasn’t really a case of “can’t”, but rather that I didn’t want to put in the effort it would have taken–this one was supposed to be a relatively quick and simple build.
A sphere of salt would probably be tricky-- You might be able to get it to precipitate into a mold or something, but I’ve never tried. Or maybe you could start with an irregular lump of salt, and polish it into a sphere with a damp cloth. Spheres of sugar, though, are available at any grocery store.
Thanks! I hadn’t seen any of the Ed Roth inspired stuff yet, really great!
Ooo, HMS Titanic meets giant scorpions! The Great Gatsby goes on a Tundra Cruise writ large! I like it!
Excellent work. In addition to your craftsmanship, your photography is lovely.
Some shots of vintage Shasta trailers might have inspired a slightly different color scheme for the blimp, though.
The American flag on the space station has an unconventional orientation. Any thoughts on your inspiration for that?
Thanks! But any credit for the photography goes to the engineers at Nikon 
All I do is set the model up on the dining room table in front of a sheet backdrop, make sure there’s plenty of light, set the little dial on top of the camera to the green icon, and push the button.
As for the flag, that’s what I had in the way of decals–I think the intent of the sheet, which has normal and reversed flags, was to be able to put a decal on each side of a flat sheet of lead foil to create a rigid-but-bendable flag to hang from a tank aerial or suchlike. Anyway, I didn’t worry too much about the orientation, but if you like you can interpret it as a sign that the scene isn’t from The Universe We Know and Love
I do have one of the old MPC scorpion kits…
The flag decals might also be for a vehicle. When displayed on the side of a vehicle, the blue should always be towards the front, as though flying from a mast (see, for instance, on the Shuttle).
Dude, you are amazing. That is all.
That got me wondering… and I found this Blown sugar / isomalt sphere. Not clear enough for glass but still pretty cool.
Once again, amazing stuff Rocketeer. Would you do a commission piece?