Sky Fortress Studio

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Eye Exam Device Replica

This is a replica of the eye exam device from the film Bicentennial Man. It was originally fabricated by Adam Savage (see http://adamsavage.com/film.html) for the film and eventually also showed up on the TV show NCIS… for some reason. At any rate, I love art deco, I love props and I love Adam Savage’s work.
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The Derelict

I’ve been designing, 3D printing and building some set pieces and active hand props for an upcoming Halloween event (which I informally refer to as The Derelict because I’m a huge Alien nerd. That’s not the actual name.) The theme is a spaceship over-run by an alien infection that has turned the crew into, well, we’re
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Sky Captain – Dex’s ray gun

2022 version: So let me just get this confession out of the way. I unapologetically love Kerry and Kevin Conran’s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I love it to death, warts and all. Roger Ebert said of the film, “It’s like a film that escaped from the imagination directly onto the screen, without
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Scratch-built Commlock

I’ve put this one off for ages. I’ve always wanted to scratch-build a Space:1999 Commlock but I’ve seen it done by real masters of scratch-building. I’m calling it a prototype in that the idea was to figure out how to build one well by building one at all. And, yeah, I was nervous about not
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Brain Box

I needed something steam-punkish and a little gross. What’s more gross than a brain in a box, I ask you? Like the Cthulhu box, this is made from a craft store box, followed by paint, rub-n-buff and a wash of black acrylic. The fake lock, corners and other bits were fabricated from brass and upholstery
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Samaritan

UPDATE: The STLS for the psrtas for the stand shown below can be found in my designs on Thingiverse. UPDATE: I’ve since built another Samaritan. This one full-sized and finished more realistically. More pics later, but here’s a shot of it right after finishing it. Back to the original post… I probably implied I was
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Cult of Cthulhu box

FYI: This box is available for sale on my Etsy shop. This was a weekend build (but more like two evenings) of a prototype for an idea I had earlier in the week; A box for Cthulhu cultists to hold sacred artifacts.  I’m happy with how it turned out, however I think the next version
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Spaceship of the Imagination

I built this recently for the Atlanta Star Party to auction off for their charity. It’s an 18″ (plus stand) replica of the Spaceship of the Imagination from the new Cosmos series. I first built up two sections using foamcore as a base (with a hole left for the sphere). On top of this I slathered quite a
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