Making Dreams Come True
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Lost in Details--Storeroom Door
An interesting comment prompted me to post a detail image of the Jupiter 2 small storeroom door. Located just behind the radio control station a very small storeroom was tucked away next to the porthole and under the sloped hull. In this SketchUp model I've removed the outer hull for clarity and shown the door in in both its closed and open positions. The door was actually designed as what is known as a bi-fold door. It swung into the storage room cutting into a portion of the interior space. Because of the way the manual door operated and was cut at an angle it actually had plenty of practical clearance to stay under the sloped hull.
Saturday, October 15, 2016
The Outfielders
Sometimes love can
come out of left field.
Tony was waiting
until he went away to college to come out to his parents and start his new gay
life. Unfortunately, at twenty-four, it doesn’t look like college is going to
happen after all. Stuck in a dead-end job in a small town and still living at
home, with all the arrested development that entails, he finds escape in
playing for the company baseball team and lusting after his straight outfielder
crush, Alex. But Tony’s best friend, Jennifer, thinks she’s found a plan in the
pages of gay romance novels. All Tony has to do is convince Alex he’s gay for
you… or for Tony. It’s easy—just find some excuse to be alone in bed together
and let nature take its course. What could possibly go wrong?
You can’t get to
first base if you don’t take a chance and step up to the plate.
Monday, November 16, 2015
Jupiter 2 Exterior
Okay, this model is really a cheat. I have used the lower
section of the full-sized Jupiter 2 exterior with its landing gear as a base.
The full-sized spaceship had diameter of only 43’-6”. The miniatures of the
spaceship were scaled for a diameter of 48’-0”. The full-sized
interior/exterior of the spaceship had a diameter of 47’-4”.
This version of the Jupiter 2 has the 47’-4” diameter of the
full-sized interior/exterior.
The other cheat comes from how tall the upper deck portion
is. To scale the miniatures all had an upper deck portion of 6’-0”. The same 6’-0”
was on the upper deck portion of the full sized exterior spaceship. The full
sized interior/exterior had sloped sides that continued up into the scaffolding
of the stage. Here the upper deck is 7’-8” in order to house the spaceship
upper deck interior.
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Jupiter 2 Master Control Console
This view of the master control console shows the panel as
it appeared during the first season. Instead of a central control panel the closed
panel could unfold into a pilots seat. This was perfect for the concept of a
single pilot, but by the second season a second seat was added and the center
panel became another control panel.
Here the view out the window is of Gate 115 (or, double one-five,
as it was called on the second season episode “The Ghost Planet”). The gate is
not exactly as seen in the episode. Design drawings indicated that the
full-sized exterior spaceship was to be used outside of the Fox Lot Mill
building. The location was the same location used for the third season episode “Visit
to a Hostile Planet.” Here I have dressed the mill and painted it as it was
intended.
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Jupiter 2 Interior Elevator
One of the most significant changes from the set of the
Gemini 12 to the set of the Jupiter 2 was the addition of the elevator and
ladder leading to the lower level. Along side of each are doors that would lead
to storage compartments. In the third season the door nearest the elevator led
to the Space Pod.
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Jupiter 2 Upper Deck
I’ve been recently asked why I haven’t followed up on my “Lost
in Space Design” book series. The sad truth is there isn’t enough interest. It
took the publisher three years to sell 1,000 copies. The audience is just too
small to make this labor of love profitable.
For those interested from time to time I’ll post a few images from
the books that might have been. It was my intention to make a series of five
books. Book One is “Lost in Space Design: No Place to Hide.” Book Two would
have been “Lost in Space Design: The Reluctant Stowaway.” Each of the remaining
books (Three, Four and Five) would have been dedicated to one of the three
seasons.
Sunday, September 13, 2015
The Hide Away Exterior
Another location featured in the novel is The Hide Away, a
gay bar. The design of this building is based upon a bar never clearly seen in
the ‘Back to the Future’ film series during the 1955 visits. The colors have
been changed some. In the films a cheerful yellow and green base had been
painted over the bricks of the dead-end alley. In my story the alley connects to Grand Avenue (New York Street) and the bricks are red to help the
alley remain dark and foreboding.
The bar’s name is significant for a couple of reasons.
First, blueprint drawings from ‘Back to the Future’ showed ‘The Hide Away’ as
the name for the bar—although the sign is never clearly seen on film. The
second reason is for the play on words. Hideaway should be one word when
indicating a place or a location. But the action—to hide away—is what my
characters are doing and they are using this location to do it in.
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