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Goodie. I'll be working on a book cover soon and maybe building a model of a space station for it.

Here's the beam of the mobile which have a length of 31 times the diameter of the Earth for a to scale orbit.

I'm back. It's been awhile. I had to suddenly travel to Colorado and left my tools behind. I replaced them in time to make models at Milehigh con in Denver. They're a great conversation starter. I dropped the scale of my Earth and Moon models to make them easier to carry along. The larger model...

Zathros, Look what I found! This is perfect for the gantries on my space station docks. In space, they wouldn't take all that much gas...

At last someone appreciates my cardmodels! Here he is with one of my model planets. It seems to be the perfect size and texture to get claws on.

I'm on track for bring out my next SF novel in February 2017. The manuscript is with an editor for the second round of line editing, so I've shifted back to cover art. The book is science fiction romance but the romance community doesn't like my stuff, too much science fiction. With the cover...

I've gotten diverted. I first did a style test with the panel on the left. The colors seem too loud and floral to me, so I want back to the art supply store for iron oxide colors. Here I put a smears of the colors on some paper to see what they look like. I'm surprised that Payne's gray is so...

I've taken off from build your own planet. Now I'm modeling Jupiter. Here is where I was with building the planet. I've decided to focus on the painting part of things. This is a canvas panel painted as an experiment along with a section of the globe in the process of being a painted.

I've shifted to modeling Jupiter while making edits to my novel to come out next February. For the skin, I've modified the planetary icosahedron models designed by Calvin J. Hamilton. My plan is to decoupage the map skin in place and then paint over the top of it. The image isn't as high...

I just might do that.

Do you want the tutorial on the shape of the triangles or on placing markers in Google earth to getting the image onto the triangles? With making the triangles it's mostly trial and error with the Coreldraw polygon tool. The globe structure is the hard part. It gives a regular grid for...

Nice ideas. My difficulties with both these repairs is that I have a chemically sensitive roommate, probably due to overexposure to epoxy resin, but her requirements are stringent as far as what can be in the air. No solvents. This knocks out nearly all cements and glues. The printer is also...

Yep It's all cellulose. So is linen, cotton, and rayon.

Cardmodel techniques work for repairing plastics. The tray on my printer broke. It's fragile plastic, maybe polystyrene. I bumped the tray and a tiny piece broke off. The tray wouldn't stay. It's difficult to even get a good look at the problem, and I can only fit the fingers of one hand into...

Plastic models have never appealed to me. I like the design puzzle of converting flat to dimensional, and usually work with fabric or paper. If I work with fabric (clothing design) I start with paper and masking tape. I use patterns as a starting place unless I want to know how something goes...

I'm putting the map skin over the model using acrylic matte medium in a decoupage technique. I'm going to use gel medium or acrylic molding past to build mountains as actual texture. It right now I'm working with getting the images from Google Earth. This is a challenge. I've placed markers on...

Interesting. I've got three printers, 2 Epsons and a Brother. The Brother is cheapest per copy. The big Epson can handle bigger format and has archival ink but it's older and the paper feed doesn't seem to be working right. It can be frustration. The smaller one is newer and more reliable. I'm...

Zathros has been talking about water forming. I think this may be what he's talking about. I'd like to see what others are doing with similar techniques. These are some models/sculptures which I made years ago before I knew what cardmodeling was. I'd been studying ceramics. I tried making the...

Tonino, your work is gorgeous. My thought, for what it's worth, is that the most expressive art uses the simplest tools. It's hard to beat charcoal drawings on Japanese brushwork for expressiveness. If tools and materials are expensive, the art can comes across as more about money than skill...

Mine has vertices in the middle of each polygon. Or maybe you get from one to the other by making the Bucky ball pentagons bigger so that hexagons become triangles. I'm delighted with the results. I had a copy of a book about Buckminster Fuller, but I sold it. I didn't think I'd want to...