OK, Steve. Sorry for the delay. Here's the story:
From age ten I knew I was going to build models professionally for the movies; just about every free moment of my life -- through school and a career in the Navy -- was spent studying and practicing the Craft.
One vital aspect of the discipline is learning how to draw, both technical and sketch type work; stuff you can work from and stuff to tickle the creative juices of you and the client alike.
One such exercise was to draft a very famous SF movie spacecraft, 'The Ark of Space', and make the presentation in an ersatz 'general arrangement', three-view, orthographic format. Complete title-block, technical authentication blocks and listing of associated drawing numbers. Very official looking. That project done during off-hours aboard the USS YOSEMITE on a Mediterranean half-year deployment -- something to add to my ever-expanding resume; my door-opener for the day Ellie and I would march into Burbank and demand a high-paying model-builder's job.
Later, I added axillary views to illustrate suggested model building techniques -- all that condensed into an article for one of the many model magazines I was contributing to at the time.
Professionals either publish, or they perish! Mom taught me that. And she was right.
Much to my surprise, that drawing recently found its way into the pages of Bill Warren's magnum opus of SF movies, KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES. I don't know if he's aware that the drawing is merely a work of fan-art and not from the Parmount files. Well... cat's out of the bag now!
And in time we did get some movie and TV work -- and that portfolio, featuring sketch, conceptual, orthographic, and story-board work got us the jobs. A life well planned.
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A much better way than flicking the spatter via toothbrush!
[/QUOTE]Last edited by redboat219; 02-02-2023, 01:13 AM.Leave a comment:
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So today in Merriman's shop while looking for that one and only screwdriver that fits a 6-32 phillips head screw...okay, I didn't find it because somebody reorganized...but, I found THIS behind his crayon/ toothpaste/ paint collection. Had a note on it, 'Install in Moebius Seaview'...? Wonder how it's going to go 88mph and juice up 1.21 gigawatts?Leave a comment:
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Now that I'm finished with this tool and have successfully practiced on the test-article, I'll start below waterline weathering on my long suffering 1/96 SKIPJACK (must be at least the 50'th I've put together over the decades)
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