Police Transport - Miniature

I had word of Mark Cheng the other day, the director of Deployment Strategy, he put me in touch with Prop and Model Maker Brian Thone, as Brian is interested in turning my Police Transport craft that I made for the film into an actual real world model. Brian told me he will be designing the inner structure and supports in Corel Draw 12 and having all the parts cut out on a laser. He will then assemble the parts and begin to fill and skin the model until the desired shape is achieved. Once done, he will ad all the final details and mold it in silicone or fiberglass. Depending on the size it is made up to be.

This will be so cool, seeing my CG model turned into one or more real miniatures. Anyway I've send Brian over a whole bunch of orthagraphic renders and other stuff to help him along with his project, Brian is currently working on a half studio scale Battlestar Galactica (3 feet) and this is being built up in the same process.

I'll keep you all updated as soon as I get word off Brian.

Gingerbreed - Spaceship - Work in Progress Pt 4

UPDATED

Here's an update on the ship, or at least the parts of the ship I can show you all. Been texturing the engines and side thrusters and picking out panel details etc...
I've added an updated pic, I've done some external texture work around and on the engines and started picking out parts using a sandier coloured material.

Davis Sisson Link

I've added a link for David Sisson . Check out his site for his wonderful replica's of Space 1999 and Thunderbirds vehicles amongst others, and also restoration of actual studio miniatures used in some of the Gerry Anderson shows.

Mudbox creation

I made this a while back when I was seeing what Mudbox could do, this is as far as I got, thought it had a bit of a Giger look to it though.

Gingerbreed - Spaceship - Work in Progress Pt 3

With the majority of modelling work on the main ship finished now I've started texturing the ship with this first pass, markings and other details will be added once all of the ship is mapped. The guys in the US will handle final shaders for the materials etc... as they'll be doing there work in Maya and I'm working in Max.
Szymon tells me they're in the process of signing someone to score Gingerbreed.

Snow Scene

Looking for something to post I found this pic I did in Vue of summertime in the UK. :)