Odd request, not for the faint of heart!

[ericpetersonSA]

A few months ago I bought a mail-order photo-etch system from MicroMark. Regular price $160, bla bla bla, on sale for $119.95. It took two shipments to get everything that was supposed to be in the box, but it works OK. The resolution limit is about .007" .... er, a bit less than two-tenths of a millimeter ... but for $120 it's hard to beat.

So... you just dove in to restoring redlines, or did you dabble at it before?

- E

[The Bronzesnake]

[CaitlinsChoice]

~Ed

Don't forget to check out www.theredlineworld.com for more redline fun!

[ericpetersonSA]

John,

There are some other folks around here who are artists. Check out Jonathon Rotten's work.

I know what you mean about the childhood imprinting. Except I was fortunate.... I stashed all of mine and came home and got them one summer.

Ed,

Thanks for the kind words. It's been wet-sanded and hit with a second coat of primer, but it doesn't look that different yet. Working on the photoetch and flames design so they're ready by the time the pearl black coat dries.

- E

[The Bronzesnake]

[ericpetersonSA]

Nope. Never saw a single episode. Rick Sternbach is an acquaintance -- a member of a digital art mailing list I founded in the mid-'90s -- and I've boycotted it on principle (not that it matters to anyone but me). The Old School illustrators and modelmakers were canned by Paramount just prior to it going into production. Way uncool. I also have two beefs with Paramount dating back to issues from that era. First, there was a stance they took on content I wanted to use for one of my 3D Studio MAX textbooks published in the late '90s for New Riders Publishing, which at the time was actually a subsidiary of Viacom as well. But more importantly, when a third party misused (commercially) digital content I posted for instructional use only, I caught the legal paper for it because it was *assumed* I had sold the content. Also way uncool... and not quite fair.

I was the first "fan" to post "pro-quality" digital artwork online back in the days of the CompuServe 3D Forum, and the co-founder of the old Wolf359 site, back when Wired called it "the finest sci-fi fan art site in the world" in the heyday of the dot-com boom. I actually had very little to do with the artwork itself, since most of the better pieces were done by real artists using my models. My models now.... while you will find some criticisms of them today, some folks remember that they were done in the days before DVDs, before the orthos in the big color glossy books, using nothing other than movie posters and blurry VHS screen grabs as reference material. They've appeared in video games, cut scenes, video game box art, novel cover artwork, textbooks, illustrated starship reference works.... But I haven't worked on ST models in the better part of a decade.

When I have time, I've been trying to improve my skills with organics, but I'm not really an artist, just an excellent technician... so I have problems and get frustrated.

One of the images on the server -- not ST -- was submitted for cover art for the re-issue of a relatively well-known novel. The main criticism I received when it was rejected was that it "looks too hard-edged and technical, like something an engineer would create.."

Not surprising, considering that I *am* an engineer.

So other folks know what the heck we're talking about....

eric-peterson.org/images/Art/


- E

[The Bronzesnake]

[The Bronzesnake]

[DDavis13]

Caskets made of bronze are the top of the line. I would think that perhaps a casket of a bronze color would be more appropriate for the "Bronzesnake"

[The Bronzesnake]