Happy Star Wars Day

The Robot from Lost in Space TV Show

This is a model of the Robot from Lost in Space.

I was running out of ink so I printed it in black ink only.

When I was growing up we only had a Black and White TV so I made all the pictures in B/W

Here is a short video I made for fun.

 

I also made a old school video of me making the model from start to finish.  

It took 3 hours 55 minutes to make so I sped up the video so it only runs 16 minutes.

The video is rough looking I made it using a webcam and feed it to a VHS recorder.

Then I recorded it with my digital camera. The lighting is harsh but I am working on other ways to do it. It was just a test for me but I think it looks OK.

Click picture for link to video album:

Star Trek: TOS Communicator

Here are pictures of the Star Trek: TOS Communicator (Beta Version) from Michael Haggard.
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I built it as a gift to a friend who is a big Star Trek fan.

Season's Greeting from South Dakota

Drones from Silent Running

These are the drones that were in the movie Silent Running.

Their nick names were Drone 1 (Dewey) Drone 2 (Huey) and Drone 3 (Louie) 

The main human character in the movie was Freeman Lowell who was played by Bruce Dern.

The movie was directed by Douglas Trumbull and came out in 1972.

The ship the movie takes place on was called the Valley Forge. It was near the planet Saturn.

In the movie the drones were taught to play poker. 

There were four human crewmen on the Valley Forge.

A couple of side notes for the movie, Joan Baez sang the theme song and Joseph Campanella was the voice of the Berkshire' Captain, he was  uncredited. 

JP Aerospace Blog posted my video I made of my Gemini model taken to the edge of space.

Click picture for link to their blog

Mars Rovers

In the middle of August I had built the mars rover Curiosity, This weekend I built it's cousins Sojourner and Opportunity.

1/24 scale Mars rovers, Curiosity,  Sojourner and Opportunity

1/24 scale Mars rovers, Curiosity,  Sojourner and Opportunity

1/24 scale Mars rovers, Curiosity,  Sojourner and Opportunity with soda can to show scale.