Gary Bouton's non-Xara Art II

**Egg Bramhill** · 22 January 2016, 10:08 PM

... or a chamber pot?

Just admit it's a torture chamber pot Gary!

**Gare** · 25 January 2016, 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Just admit it's a torture chamber pot Gary!

You really don't want me to put an iron maiden on top of that bric-a-brac piece, Eric, because I would do it.

How about instead I spin a short story that explains the following piece.

As a sci-fi head as a child, I used to dote on the cheesy space ships in the B movies. And I actually saved up enough to buy the space ship I found in the back of a comic book.

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All parties that took advantage of tykes ordering this are probably dead by now, so I feel no remorse posting their ad.

Cheap cardboard, took ages to assemble, fell apart the second time I sat in it.

Okay, so this is a mash-up of the comic book offer and the B-movies, done the way they should have been done from the get-go:

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**pauland** · 25 January 2016, 02:32 PM

Cheap cardboard, took ages to assemble, fell apart the second time I sat in it.

It was never designed for adults, Gare..

I half remember a similar thing that used to be a submarine you could sit in. I think the ads were in DC Super-Hero comics.

Sadly, all mine were thrown out. I hate to think what their value would be today.

**Gare** · 25 January 2016, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by pauland

Cheap cardboard, took ages to assemble, fell apart the second time I sat in it.

It was never designed for adults, Gare.

No, no, Paul, you misunderstood me. I haven't sat in the rocket ship for at least two years.

Mine was from DC Comics, too, Green Lantern most likely. But enough back-story!

The art? The art? Thumbs up on the art?

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**Gare** · 25 January 2016, 02:47 PM

So light-speed to 2016.

I just got a plug-in for Cinema 4D that adds detail—actual small pieces, not a bump map—to meshes. I only tried out a cube below, so it sort of looks like a Borg ship from Star Trek, the added fake detail doesn't bloat the overall saved file size, and I'm going to build a spacecraft and see what the plug-in does. I might use a different rendering engine, though. The detailing can be exported as OBJ files as well as anything one creates in Cinema 4D.

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**pauland** · 25 January 2016, 02:57 PM

My favourite.

BTW, If found my submarine!

The US government could have saved a fortune!

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=po...PExs6D_yAFM%3A

**mwenz** · 25 January 2016, 03:00 PM

Love the light bulb, Gary.

The spaceship reminds me of yesteryear.

**pauland** · 25 January 2016, 03:07 PM

Nice work on the retro spaceship.

This looks similar to your toy.

https://terrordaves.files.wordpress....cket20ship.jpg

**Gare** · 25 January 2016, 03:13 PM

Thanks Paul, and Thanks mwenz for liking the imp-candescent light bulb!

Here's a piece of trivia for you, Paul. Do you know who has the largest fleet on Earth?

Freakin' Disney! Between all the amusement parks with the safari rides, et al, they have more water capable ships than the Brit Navy or the US!

Crap. I'm glad you found your submarine!

Did it come with cardboard torpedoes with nuclear warheads, or was that an extra few pence and couldn't be delivered until they were invented?

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