Ask Barking Alien - Lost in Space

Foomf asks, "Have you ever created models or art of Traveller spacecraft?"

The answer to this is yes. Unfortunately, I have no proof.

I'll explain...

Most of the spacecraft art, whether two, or three dimensional, that I've made for Traveller over the years was made long ago. It's been at least 10-15 years since I've made anything of a model-kit, or original illustration nature. 

Never particularly good at drawing Science Fiction vehicles (especially starships), and yet loving them to pieces, I would most often use already existing art found in books, and magazines. Eventually I met other gaming friends better at illustrating spacecraft, and left the depictions to them. 

I am pretty good at imagining, and designing ships, just not getting them on paper.

As my modeling skills improved, and I started to customize Japanese Robot models more, and more, I tried my hand at customizing Star Trek, and Star Wars models. I sold a battle damaged Klingon K'Tinga that I'd made, which originally hung down from the ceiling in the old Forbidden Planet comic book store here in New York. I later sold a customized A-Wing fighter diorama that included miniatures originally made for Star Wars D6.

By the time I started college I had begun creating kit-bashed speeder vehicles, and shuttles for Traveller, but this was around 1989-1990. We did not have cameras in our pockets like we do now, and so I never took pictures of any of my work. I also never kept any of it, since I rarely used miniatures in my own games. Instead, as with the K'Tinga, and the A-Wing, I made it a habit of selling my pieces to supplement my income.

So, the answer to the question is yes, I have made models of original ship designs, but no such works remain in my possession, and no photos exist of them that I am aware of.

You'll just have to take my word for it.

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Zoomorphs! Instant Chimera Maker

Check out this awesome series of interchangeable creatures I discovered at a local toy store - Zoomorphs!

I've seen them up close and they are the perfect size for being considered rather large creatures to your standard gaming mini, about a inch or two tall and two or three inches long (depending upon construction). While not super cheap, they are certainly less expensive then most metal miniatures of monsters of a similar size. They also seem pretty rugged as they are designed to be played with by kids 4 and up.

Now go grab Raggi's Random Esoteric Creature Generator and have a blast!

Done say I never gave you nothing OSR.

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