Saturday, 21 February 2026

BBC Arts - Out-of-this-world spaceship designs based on everyday objects

These are such cool illustrations! 

See what you think. 

BBC Arts - BBC Arts - Out-of-this-world spaceship designs based on everyday objects https://share.google/YAlezSw2lYTniiI3N 

10 comments:

  1. Not as good as the Matt Irvine 'two hair dryers stuck together' spaceship design😊

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    1. Which show did that appear in Dave?

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    2. My immediate thought too!
      It was Blake's 7, Woodsy.
      The invading space fleet needed "dozens" of spaceships which didn't look like Federation models. I've always thought the two hairdriers glued together was a masterful solution to buget limitatations!

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  2. The first one's good, but the others, especially the sriracha bottle, look rather too much like what they were.
    The trick is to alter them so they become unrecognisable as what they were.

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  3. Mat's hairdrier ship featured in Blake's 7, I believe.

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  4. It did. A ship flown by Travis in the episode 'Star One'. Must make one at some point. The hairdryers aren't hard to get, it's the old R2D2 kit domes that are pricey!

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  5. Vacuum Cleaners make good parts
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ujrea-Uf050&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1VUw%3D%3D

    The "Cut Transform Glue" guy is quite creative--though I was screaming at the screen about how he used greebles.

    The clear, curved part needed to be a phaser rifle barrel.

    I would have put sprue over the vents to keep detail--not slather it over into a simple cylinder.

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  6. Space art
    https://e05.code.blog/

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