Sometimes you just gotta follow your heart

 I saw this record cover ages ago and added it to a screensaver slideshow, so every once in a while it pops on screen and I think "those guys are so funky lookin, I gotta model them one day". Well that day is to-day. Still needs work, but I'm pretty happy with R2-Apollo-11 and DisCo-3PO

The Star Wars (1955)

Recently I've been poking at a fun mash-up side project.

So it's well documented that George Lucas had originally wanted to recreate Flash Gordon, but couldn't obtain the rights and so he made Star Wars instead. My project imagines a 1950s show called The Star Wars, which would have aired alongside Flash Gordon, and that it's this show that Lucas idolized. In this version he successfully obtained the rights to it and rebooted it to great success in 1977.

Here are some of the props I've designed so far...

The Falcon

Star Destroyer

A Stormtrooper Bucket

and finally, R2-D2

Updated 2026

When I posted this in 2017, I had these crappy screengrabs from sketchup because I really liked the ideas but didn't want to spend any more time on it. Got myself sidetracked this morning updating the renders. Really happy with the results keeping my original clunky details but realizing them fully without taking months off my life for an admittedly very silly little project.

New parts

Taking the Falcon for a Spin

The Droids of A New Hope

A work in progress that I'll be updating periodically.

All droids are in order of appearance (left to right, if multiple droids have their first appearance in the same shot).

all of these were made in sketchup.

more to come...

Linear Falcon Interior

This drawing was done by Production Designer John Barry, as a proposed interior to the Millennium Falcon (then known as the "Pirate Ship")

Here's my take on that. 

Farewell to a nice weekend