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Sublight Drive Crafts
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I make spaceships 🖌️📐🚀
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Watch me build the J-77 Fulcrum from scratch:
Not quite enough detail for you? Full video is up on YouTube
December 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Share your flying machines!
December 9, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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The Rochelle Heavy Dynamics J-77 Fulcrum.
Kit and template for making it yourself are both available on my Etsy shop, go check it out!
A grey, boxy spaceship against a background of stars and cosmic dust. A blue drive plume can be seen behind it, suggesting it is flying towards the viewer. In large white block text above it, the words “J-77 FULCRUM”, and above that in smaller font, the phrase “Lift the Worlds”
December 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Ugly. Heavy. Reliable.
The Rochelle Heavy Dynamics J-77 Fulcrum is the first choice when you need to get that ore shipment to Tau Ceti and you don't need it to be pretty.

New video up (hopefully) later today.
A grey spaceship against a black background with no stars. It is streaked and scuffed with grime and rust. A blue and orange spaceship, of the same design as the first. It is similarly grimy and rusty. Both spaceships posing together, against a black background.
December 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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After many trials and tribulations I have modeled and print some stands for these spaceships. I will not be answering questions about how long it took or what the earlier drafts looked like.
Two model spaceships on a worktable. They are both resting on black, 3D printed stands.
November 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Two dirty spaceships, in the pipeline. These are originals so I’ll have templates available in my shop once the video is up!
A geometric blue model spaceship with orange and white piping. Streaks of dirt and grime can be seen on its surface. It is held in hand against a worktable background. A geometric grey model spaceship with faded white stripes. Streaks of dirt and grime can be seen on its surface. It is held in hand against a worktable background.
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Halloween means cardboard crafts time
A cardboard prop version of the MA5B assault rifle from the Halo series, resting on a worktable.
October 31, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Owning a 3D printer has given me a near unlimited capacity for owning little plastic trinkets. Remains to be seen whether other uses exist (but I remain hopeful)
A 3D printed dumpster, held in hand.
October 23, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Looking for opinions- which geometry do you like best: Vertical indent, horizontal indent, or flat?

These aren’t even close to final, I’m just using my new 3D printer to do the prototyping
Three tiny versions of a geometric spaceship: one with a vertical indent running from top to bottom, another with a horizontal indent around the bottom, and one with neither.
October 18, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Watch me build a real version of the ship from the cover of Asteroids for the Atari 7800! Full video is on youtube, be sure to check it out.
#shiptember
September 30, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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More photos of my Atari 7800 Asteroids project. Full build video is up on YouTube now!

#shiptember
Front on view of a model spaceship against a black background. An asteroid is visible in the background. Underside view of a model spaceship. Many small details and patches of color are visible, and the canopy is just visible on ver the edge of the ship. Closeup view of a model spaceship. Small details, like decals, oil stains, and small mechanical parts are visible.
September 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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And the compositing process for this image. The full video for making the spaceship should be up this weekend.
September 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Seeing the cover art for the Atari 7800 version of Asteroids struck me with an overwhelming desire to replicate it with physical models.

#shiptember
A space scene made by compositing photos of a model spaceship and asteroids. Two delta shaped spacecraft fly between the asteroids and towards the upper left of the image, shooting purple blaster bolts at a green explosion. The cover for the Atart 7800 asteroids game. It features an image of two delta shaped spacecraft in an asteroid field, being shot at by UFOs as they destroy asteroids.
September 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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I made a rock #myrock
September 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Show me your pink art!! 🎀💝🌸
September 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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I have made a rock
A small model of an asteroid, on the end of a thin black support. In the background, out of focus, is a model spaceship.
September 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Preshading

#shiptember
A model spaceship, held in hand in front of a spray booth. Individual panels in the surface of the ship are outlined in black, airbrushed onto the surface.
September 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Pew pew pew 🚀🪨💥

#shiptember
An arrowhead-shaped model spaceship, mounted on a stand in front of a cutting mat and hobby workspace. It is unpainted, and many small details are visible
September 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Greeblies!

#shiptember
The back end of an unpainted model spaceship, held in hand in front of a cutting mat. It is dense with small details and wires.
September 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I have been fighting a months long battle to get my cutting machine scribing tool to produce more consistent lines. Turns out, it was coming loose in the jig, and all I needed to fix it was a bit of masking tape to give it a TINY bit more grip.

Sometimes it’s the low tech fix that works best.
A scribing tool for a Cameo cutting machine, held in hand. There is a tiny (less than half an inch long) piece of blue masking tape on its side.
September 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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First round of panels on. I haven’t even started the greebling yet!

#shiptember
Unfinished model spaceship with an arrowhead shape. The flat surfaces are covered by detailed panels.
September 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Pausing to put everything together with sticky tac to make sure it’s working.
An unfinished model one man spaceship with an arrowhead shape. It’s being held in hand in front of a cutting mat.
September 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Real talk we all know it’s gonna go down more like this
Scene from the 2017 film The Death of Stalin. Various leaders of the Russian communist party stand around, staring at Stalin’s corpse on the floor.
August 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Some closeup shots of my N1 Racer.
Close up on the engine nacelle of a model Naboo Starfighter. It has been modified to show the engine internals, which are painted in metallic copper and chrome, with a dark oily cast to them. Close up on the cockpit area of a pink Naboo Starfighter. The pilot is visible, as well as a section of exposed internal parts. Multiple logos can be seen against the pink and black livery.
August 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Building my F1 inspired Naboo Starfighter #kitbash #starwars #F1
August 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM