{"id":2550,"date":"2018-07-05T11:17:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T10:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2025-01-10T13:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T12:50:01","slug":"colony-87-awakens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/2018\/07\/colony-87-awakens\/","title":{"rendered":"Colony 87 Awakens!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new wave of Jon Boyce’s science fiction Colony 87 miniatures are on their way, concept drawings by me and sculpts by the excellent miniature sculptors Mike Anderson and John Pickford.<\/p>\n

The brief from Jon was to draw a “female, deep space pilot wearing flight suit covered with pockets, cabling, tubing etc. Hard-seal connection at neck, calves and forearms. Helmet is removed and under arm in classic pilot pose. Mature, but attractive – think Helen Mirren. One side of head is shaved.”<\/p>\n

My process is to created a reference sheet from all sorts of images I’ve collected from the internet and my own books; ranging from space suit designs by Fred Freeman of ex-Nazi rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun’s First Men to the Moon (1960) book to actual space suits and movie space suits from science fiction films. Then produce a sketch of my initial ideas to send to the client (in this case Jon Boyce).
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You can purchase this miniature here:<\/p>\n

Colony 87 range – Pilot A<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new wave of Jon Boyce’s science fiction Colony 87 miniatures are on their way, concept drawings by me and sculpts by the excellent miniature sculptors Mike Anderson and John Pickford. The brief from Jon was to draw a “female, deep space pilot wearing flight suit covered with pockets, cabling, tubing etc. Hard-seal connection at … Continue reading Colony 87 Awakens!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[366,292,18],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-sketchbook-pages","tag-colony-87","tag-miniatures-concepts","tag-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","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=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3687,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}