It’s Friday as I write this and it has been a long but good week. Glen Kramer and his wife Valerie visited and picked up the Enterprise E and the K-7 space outpost. We had a wonderful meal and some good times.
I was able to get some quality time on my laser cutting skills and advanced with my abilities to use it quite far.
Yesterday I took a photo of the bronze “Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” and using the Lightburn software traced the contours of the bricks and shapes for laser engraving. I also created another layer I used to cut out the lighthouse and the windows from the optic section storm panes.
After working much of the week with the cutter I got a feel for the settings and my best guess was perfect and the panes just fell away and I had a perfect cage to place difusion behind and light.
I experimented with the beast itself placing some washes and highlights so in the day time in an office there’s some feeling of detail. This is mainly designed to be seen backlit and in the dark as the original scene in the film.
Next is to make the rocky base the lighthouse and the creature stand on, make an ocean at night background and a starry sky that will also be lighted softly.
I’m off to a good start and should have this finished and in a shadow box next week.
Mary and I are preparing our rockets for this weekend’s launch. I’m flying my all scratch built self designed “Rocket Rider” and Mary’s scratch built designed “Vanguard Monet”.
The Art of Steve Neill 