Xenoflora

I made this alien flower for my girlfriend.

Kitbash

The word 'kitbash' refers to the process of using parts from a variety of model kits, in unexpected ways, to decorate a new model that doesn't resemble any of the kits. For example, using details from a battleship kit to represent details on a car's engine at a different scale. When we needed a spaceship for 3001: The Shadow Planet, I had an excuse to try this technique. Although the look of the Venturous (I just now named it, we just called it "the ship") is inspired by Space: 1999, the model is built mostly from Apollo rocket kits, a few parts from an airplane kit and a Star Wars ship kit, a plastic Easter egg, and lots of "sprue", which is the plastic scaffold left between model parts by the molding process. This model never got a proper paint job, because we needed to slather it in day-glow paint to make it visible on stage.

Relativity in Graph Paper

Once upon a time I considered building a model of M. C. Escher's Relativity (scroll down) in Linka. I never really started on the Linka model, but I did finish a study model, which I made by cutting, folding, and gluing graph paper. It was a great way to work out exactly how the architecture fits together. My graph paper model is a bit battered now, and the glue is coming loose in places, so I figured I'd better take a picture while I can. Here it is. (I haven't tried to line this photo up exactly like the print, but you get the idea.)