{"id":1716,"date":"2015-04-16T10:59:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T09:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2018-07-05T11:06:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T10:06:37","slug":"colony-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/2015\/04\/colony-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Colony 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A commission I had last year to draw concepts for a Science Fiction 28mm miniatures range Kickstarter has been funded within a few hours! <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Colony 87 Kickstarter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/62661939\/colony-87-28mm-sci-fi-civilians\/description\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/62661939\/colony-87-28mm-sci-fi-civilians\/description<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the sketches (an amphibian-alien trader, human trader, a pair of nobles with a freakish pet and a porter with a some sort of servo-yoke). The designs were influenced by, amongst many other things, Ridley Scott&#8217;s Bladerunner (1982) costumes by Michael Kaplan and Charles Knode and the nobles costumes in the David Lynch Dune movie (1984) by Bob Ringwood.  I tried a gothic-arch hat from Russian history for the female noble though we settled on a simple cowl.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mycenter\"><span class=\"image-share-wrap\"><span class=\"hidden-share\" style=\"width:24px;\"><a rel='nofollow' href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2015%2F04%2Fcolony-87%2F&picture=http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sketchbook-Mar2014-SF-Traders-and-Nobility-ideas.jpg\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/facebook.png' \/><\/a><a rel='nofollow' href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Colony%2087&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2015%2F04%2Fcolony-87%2F&hashtags=colony%2087%2Cminiatures%20concepts%2Cscience%20fiction%2CSF%20citizens\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); return 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href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2015%2F04%2Fcolony-87%2F&title=Colony%2087\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/reddit.png' \/><\/a><\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sketchbook-Mar2014-SF-Nobility-and-pet-ideas.jpg\"><img  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-196 cool-image-share\" title=\"SF Nobles and porters\" src=\"http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sketchbook-Mar2014-SF-Nobility-and-pet-ideas.jpg\" width=\"950\" height=\"671\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nThese have been sculpted by the talented miniature designer Mike Anderson.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3><div class=\"ngg-related-gallery\">\n\t\t\t<a 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The designs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/2015\/04\/colony-87\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colony 87<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[366,292,18,200],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-sketchbook-pages","tag-colony-87","tag-miniatures-concepts","tag-sf","tag-sf-citizens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}