This a movie that I made featuring my custom figures and dioramas. It basically uses some rudimentary stop motion and "puppeteering".
It is meant to showcase my dioramas and custom figures. I basically shot it a little at a time after my family went to bed. I will be posting it over the coming weeks in small incriments.
I purposely left out the dialogue, it would have made the project too long. I felt by cutting the dialogue it allowed it to move at a quicker pace. I did use sound effects and music to capture the feeling.
This controversial photo is thought to be the root cause of the Great Nerd War of Boise, which lasted 2 days, left 5 geeks dead, 7 others with permanent "atomic wedgies" and made a shambles of the Manga section of the local Boarders Books.
The seat has been covered with the ads from the various companies that advertised back issues, showing the prices for available issues in 1991. The seat lid features the Magneto cover and assorted images of the Master of Magnetism from all the issues. The back of the seat lid features the “Blast From the Past” centerfold poster, with only X-Men as the background, no bad guys or filler pics. The bottom of the seat is glossy images from the deluxe edition only. It’s shiny and makes a wonderful frame for the lid back when opened…..The credits for the issue, along with the indicia, are intact on the base, along with the author’s name in large letters from an ad featuring his novels. After all the separate images were glued in place, they were coated repeatedly, first with the glue sealant, then with 5-6 coats of polyurethane. The whole process took upwards of 80 hours and a full pint of polyurethane.
The project has a budget of $8.5 million, which is chump change by Hollywood standards, and the producers have been desperately trying to raise funds.
Well, it worked. Through a combination of investors and fan donations, Iron Sky has 90% of its budget squared away, its casting is near complete, and filming is set to begin in Germany and Australia later this year.
Voila! Roasted Chestburster ‘a la Coloniale’! Big hit with the crowd for the disgusting aspect, the uber-nerdness of the idea, and the fact that it was basically a nice bit of roasted meat, when all’s said and done. Yum!
Bit of a close up on the jaw. Pictures aren’t perfect because Kim declined to photograph that one (Her exact words were something like: “OhGodUrgh…”), and the man who stepped forward to do it for her had already sampled the blue milk quite a bit!
Ground pressure is the killing word to the armored war walker. Consider getting off the couch, strapping on a 100 pound backpack and going for a run. Now imagine you’re running through a patch of ankle deep sticky clay mud. Now imagine stopping or turning. DO NOT ACTUALLY ATTEMPT THIS, because you will BREAK A LEG OR POP A KNEE, fall face down in the mud, drown and die. This is what life will be like for a 20+ ton walker, every day, on all terrain.
The ground pressure that a 10t IFV exerts is less than a fully loaded infantry grunt.
Even if you imagine some spectacular future miracle technology or material that will remove some of the above problems, you’re still left with sky high ground pressure and I will use that same unobtanium to make better tanks and tank killing flyers that will make tin foil out of your walker.
Engineering is not about finding ways to make cool things work. It’s about solving problems at a lower fiscal, materials, logistical and manpower cost than current solutions. The purpose of a mechanized army is to take and hold territory by killing people and breaking their things. A force of armored walkers make this task harder, not easier.
You consider yourself a pretty well informed nerd, right? You’ve watched just about every geektastic movie and television show, and played every game there is. You have a certain level of pride in the time you spent earning your nerd cred. The things you do to attain your authoritative-ness demands respect. However, the embarrassment of being the last guy to the party is enough to shatter your world. It’s a situation we’ve all be in. Friends being all chatty cathy about something that you haven’t quite got into yet. They’re all really into it and your not. Damn friends making you feel all ashamed.
The only potential glitch in the Star Trek books came about because I couldn't figure out how to write a love scene where the protagonists called each other by their surnames. So I gave Mr. Sulu a first name, "Hikaru," which is from The Tale of Genji. I was blissfully unaware of the glitch till long after the fact; someone at Paramount objected to the idea of the character's having a given name, for reasons unclear to me. David had the good idea of asking Gene Roddenberry and George Takei their opinion, and both of them said "Go for it" or words to that effect. And so Mr. Sulu has a first name.
