About Me
A little about me:
I think I first saw Star Wars in the early 90’s, but it wasn’t until I got the VHS THX Mastered version that I started buying Star Wars toys. For some reason, I never wanted the Kenner figures and vehicles; they weren’t “movie accurate” in my opinion. Yet, I loved the Galoob Micro Machines. So naturally, when the AF line came out, I started collecting them. When the AF line died, I decided to collect the Titanium series to fill the gaps in my AF collection.
I didn’t start customizing anything until around 2002-
These days, with a lot of patience and encouragement (and a great online community), I am building vehicles, starships, and some completely original designs. My hope is that I will inspire other people to try their hand at models/customs and enjoy this amazingly rewarding hobby.
A little about my philosophy on scale modeling:
I started scale models with German WWII aircraft, which is a great subject with many dedicated sites and reference material. If you talk to most modelers about this or any modeling subject, you find that they like making replicas of something. These are exact duplicates of what existed, and making them accurate is what they enjoy. Now I have no problem with that at all. I think it takes a lot of skill and patience to get the number of rivets or bolt-
Therefore, I went to the sci-
I hope that more younger people will get into this hobby, and do so in a way they enjoy...regardless of how someone tells them do it.
Excellently put my friend. We share the same sentiment. – IvanTheTerrible
Thanks man. Best!!
Amazing what you make, and really great you’re sharing your experience, Thanks !
Thanks man. I am glad to share, and it’s great hearing from fans. Thank you for commenting.
Love your work,do you have a Facebook or Instagram?
I have my personal Facebook page, which has some models on it. Feel free to add me if you like. I always enjoy talking models and/or Star Wars.
Will do im working on a Bandai R2 that im making into a Boba Fett droid
you are a legend.. excellent site!
You got THE philosophy of scale modelling Jonathan : “Do not remain a prisoner of history”. thanks a lot for sharing your art
Thank you Phil, and thanks for the article on your blog.
This is your contact you thing you told me about on deviantart
Hi there, been using your site for most of the day cataloging my action fleet collection. An amazing resource! I never knew there were so many different variants of ships. One thing I noticed is that most of your ships have the black with gold text for stands. However some of the ships I have, only have the plain black text (the worst looking one) and yet there are no variants for those ships listed on your website.
Did you just buy the stands separately, paint them yourself, or is there something i’m missing? I’m getting a display case for these and just noticed this now. It’s going to drive me crazy to not have them all match. Look forward to hearing from you! 🙂
Hey man, glad my site is proving useful. I think I have all of the major variants listed. Now, for stands, check of the Variations page. Originally, Galoob released the stands with silvery, rainbow-like, reflective text. After the first wave, they switched to gold for most of their releases. Then, for their final few Classic ships (like the E-wing and TIE Defender), they switched to black. Episode I stands were all black. But Hasbro resurrected the gold text for their 2002 releases, as well as the Titanium Ultras. Best!!
Hi Jonathan,
Great stuff! Really digging the Rebel tanker. It’s a little tough to tell just from the photos — assuming the door under the cockpit is about 2 meters, how long would that make your tanker, roughly?
Thinking of doing a paper model to scale with my tiny paper Millennium Falcon, crediting you, of course! And if you don’t mind 🙂
-David C.
Thanks man, that will be cool to see. The door piece I used was 1/350 scale, so I based it’s size on that. It’s about 28 cm long, so probably 98 m actual size.
Best!
Great! Thanks, That’s invaluable. I’m currently working on a Medical Frigate, which is just a heckova thing to do at this scale. If you’re interested you can see my stuff at the website I entered on your form.
If you happen to have any ortho views of your tanker you don’t mind sharing, my e-mail is david@otherlifeart.com .
Cheers!
That is some insane detail on paper models. The Blockade Runner looks spot on to the movie miniature. I can’t wait to see what you do with the Frigate.
Beautiful work on your projects! I was googling sci fi scratch building, hoping for something inspiring and one of your images came up (My wish came true). I ended up commenting here as your modelling philosophy is as endearing as your projects. The sci fi genre allows aesthetics to counterbalance veracity and enlivens the imagination. I hope to pilfer your roject logs for ideas that could help me build war gaming terrain. Rather than vehicles I work mostly on figures but a stirring narrative needs momentous sets as well as a heroic cast of characters. Your Skip-ray blast boat has given me some direction on how I might construct a squad transport/close support gunship. Thanks!
Thank you!
Your doing a great job my friend. I love your work. This is my 10th time to this website. I’m just getting into the hobby. I love the Galoob Action fleet. I was to old to collect them in the mid 90’s, besides I began to have kids. Now their graduation high school and I finally have time and money. lol Some of my favorite of Galoob toys are the Star Ship Troppers and Aliens. I believe the Aliens dropship is the holy grail of this whole line. Do you have a favorite?
Thanks man, I’m glad it’s helping. I love the Starship Troopers, Aliens, and Predator Galoob toys. I don’t have many of them, but they are nice. I would probably agree that the Aliens dropship may very well be the rarest of the “released” Action Fleet toys. There are dozens of unproduced Action Fleet however, like the Star Destroyer and the Mining Transport from Aliens.
If I had to pick a favorite, I love the Imperial Landing Craft. It had so many features and I love the design of it.
Best!
Fantastic work! If it wasn’t for you, where would we get all this valuable information? You are awesome! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to the toys we all love.
Thank you, man. It means a lot. All the best!
Hey there. Would you consider selling your Foxcatch or building one for me?
Shoot me an e-mail at thetamegoby@gmail.com
Hello are you there?
I just started kitbashing micromachines. the scale of ships has haunted me since the Space 1999 Eagle. yet i did fit a stormtrooper in there once,but his left arm got a truckers tan from being outside the cockpit window
Awesome
Howdy! Do you attend Wonderfest in Kentucky? Are you going this year?
I have never been, but I would love to go. It seems like a lot of fun.