Digital Kit Design » The Drifter

One of my first collaborations for Industria Mechanika products was with an artist named Ian McQue, famous for his diesel-punk airship designs. I was a huge fan of his work and as it turns out, he was also a fan of mine. Over the next decade, I sculpted four 1/35…

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Digital Kit Design » The Songbird Ornithopter

I created a lot of different insect ornithopters, but birds always eluded me. Over the years I’ve designed many different attempts at bird wings for one, but nothing seemed to be just the right combination of functional and aesthetically pleasing. Some used photoetch, some laser-cut parts, others solid sculpts. Finally…

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Digital Kit Design » AG Recovery Vehicle

Inspired by construction equipment and customers love for maintenance-bay dioramas, I designed this anti-gravity Recovery Vehicle essentially as a flying crane. I’ve always loved giving customers multiple options when creating my own and collaborative kit products and figured this design could be used with dozens of my past Industria Mechanika…

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Digital Kit Design » AG Gondola Racer

Few forms of Anti-Gravity (AG) racing can compete with the thrill of watching pilots bank and spin their colorful Gondola Racers through circuits filled with towering obstacles and tight turns, all at breakneck speed! I was inspired to create this anti-gravity racing vehicle by the game WipeOut for the Playstation…

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In Progress » The Dragonfly

Apparently I posted nothing about this here on my own site, but the follow-up to my Hornethopter kit, the Dragonfly is done and in-stock at Industria Mechanika. Much like the Hornet, I designed the entire Dragonfly craft, but this time I had my friend and iMech collaborator Christophe Desse create…

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Completed » The Hornethopter

Here are the final images for the Hornethopter. It was a fun kit to design, build and paint and I hope the hundred of you that purchased one of the first edition releases enjoy building it up. Watch for the second edition to be on sale at Industria Mechanika.

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