News Displaying 101 to 110 of 126  I'm sure I've come across this blue outline of X-Bomber before, but more recently, I came across the outputs from Illustrator, showing the process of making it, along with a very nice and useful graphic of the X Bomber logo.
I see that the creator has a redbubble, featuring this and other designs.  Found on nitter, this is an AI enhancement of the often-seen publicity shot of the X-Bomber studio model.
The enhancement process is quite striking and it gave me a very strong Chris Foss vibe.
At the same time, it seems to have introduced a few features that don't make perfect sense.
It makes you feel like you're looking at an Escher when you examine it more closely.  While things are quiet on the Star Fleet front, I wanted to share with you a website that I came across the other day while browsing around about the subject of Y2K futurism.
Deadnet Internet Services
Your pitstop on the Information Superhighway!
This site looks as though its design has been more-or-less untouched since 1999. It certainly has the turn-of-the-century website feel and yet it even now has a very active forum and IRQ full of very friendly people.
Also the internet radio stations are great.
I've been listening to the TechnoBase FM station a lot. It helps move the day along and, with the announcers being German, I can practice my German a little as well.  I set up a Star Fleet Teams for 23rd Oct at 20:00.
It's an hour-long Teams call for Star Fleet fans to catch up and chat on about whatever.
Please use this link to join the meeting, nearer the time.
You can join the group, to get future notifications directly, and get more info via the Star Fleet Teams page.
If anyone would like to join, and can't make it, please let me know and I'll see about shifting it around.
I wanted a 'Teams' logo for the Star Fleet Teams page, but the actual logo design is so bland, that I decided to throw my own one together based on the old MSN Messenger logo.  With all the work that got done giving the site selectable themes and colours, I thought the available selection could be expanded.
I sometimes miss my old Tripod site from about 2003. I based the colours for it on the Subaru Impreza WRC.
I went over to archive.org and some old files that I had lying around to reconstruct the look of it.
I'll add it to the theme select page once I've tested it a bit more.
In the meantime, try it out by clicking here.  The topic of the series Tugs came up in conversation the other day.
It is Thomas the Tank Engine but set in a harbour.
I see that, since the other year, when I tried to find this series for my daughter, the show is now available from archive.org.
The video quality is pretty OK: better than VHS, which is all that was previously available, and you can play the files directly from the site or download them as a torrent etc.
With almost all the shots containing water, I think the show would've benefitted a lot from having been shot at 120fps high speed, and being slowed down to 24fps: as lots of shots in Thunderbirds were, in order to make the water look like a large, slow-moving body of water.  The train job is getting back on the rails.
I want to use the existing mechanism for spawning the Alliance space trains on levels 5 and 14 as the basis for the trains inside the level 16 Alliance fortress.
That way, there's just one set of code and objects doing it all.
The space train mechanism that was upgraded back when level 14 was being done has been improved quite a bit so that the space trains can overlap eachother.
A lot of bloat has been taken out of it too.
That was needed before it can be extended to do the level 16 bit.  I found this build of the Good Smile MODEROID Dai-X by Design Works.
The builder clearly took a lot of trouble to make the result as accurate as possible: using a lot of reference material.
I've seen a few people build this model with reflective/fluorescent paint on the eyes that gives the appearance on camera that the eyes are illuminated.
In this case, it seems clear that this model has a light inside the head to make the eyes glow: possibly with batteries being located in the body.
At the same time, the large canopy on Mainbody is transparent unlike an out-of-the-box build, where the cockpit is opaque.  It seems like a bit of a coincidence but I came across a photo of the Asahi Sonorama X Bomber disc on FromJapan the other day.
Sadly, it was without its book: as part of a set of Sonorama discs that were being sold.
This bit of merchandise has got me a bit intrigued.
It would be great to get a complete item of this to scan all the pages and photograph the whole thing. For, what I count as v11.3 of the site, I made some changes to the way media pages display images.
The thumbnails are cropped to 4:3, as it was messy having images from different places creating all different row heights etc.
The thumbnails have been made about as big as they can be to make them easier to see.
I thought it would be much cleaner to have the titles of the images hidden unless you roll over the lower part of the image, at which point it gets revealed.
This feature might get a little further tweaking.
As always, clicking on a thumbnail opens the image in the lightbox and clicking the title opens the image direct in the browser window, which can help in downloading the image if the browser lacks a "save target as" option.
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