A while ago I ran into a box of old spaceships of mine in our cellar, I photographed a few of them and thought it would be nice to document them all while at it. I found a total of 11 spaceships (not including the numerous LEGO ships) in our house, most are my oldies, a couple of them belong to the kid. I shot all of them straight from the bow to capture their character.
After I had photographed them all I thought they'd look great in a poster, I added some trendy graphic noise to go with it. I think it turned out allright.
There's an Avanaut Facebook page for those who like liking such things.
UPDATE (August 18): There's a typo on the poster (Calactica instead of Galactica, bummer!), but I'm not going to fix it, as replacing the image would sever link between this and some of the pages it has been posted to. Maybe later. Also, I'm aware that the snowspeeder is not a "spaceship", but I thought it would pass just this once. And yes, the relative size of the ships varies, they're not in the same scale, in my mind it just looked better this way. :)
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Avanaut 9 months ago | reply
swfan1963 9 months ago | reply
That is FANTASTIC. Too bad about the copyright infringements - I would SO buy a poster or print of this!
trike 9 months ago | reply
This is tremendous. I am totally stealing this idea.
Pinko Scum 9 months ago | reply
This is awesome! Great work.
bill.d 9 months ago | reply
I bow to your awesome geekness and photography skillz.
T.G. Swenson 9 months ago | reply
Amazing work! B-Wing Starfighter sometime please!
Avanaut 9 months ago | reply
orchidtears666 9 months ago | reply
An amazing poster. You really should get some of these printed to sell. I would certainly buy one. Maybe get rid of all the small writing on it which mentions ship names etc and that way you shouldn't have any issues with copyright infringement I would have thought.
AndyLand 9 months ago | reply
VERY cool photos. Tried a similar approach here hereinandyland.tumblr.com/post/29792585352
MH LC 9 months ago | reply
I'm too lazy to do any of this myself but, these thoughts were posted on anther website
bitchin'
couldn't agree more but since its the first one I've seen, pretty cool. Can't wait for your corrected chart. In fact, this a challenge to all.
Read more at thechive.com/2012/08/19/top-tapiture-photos-of-the-week-5...
Appendices as attached links with schematics, original credits, original design development, etc would be nice. Could really nerd out on that.
Read more at thechive.com/2012/08/19/top-tapiture-photos-of-the-week-5...
D for Derivative [deleted] 9 months ago | reply
Beautiful. Now where do I pre-order?
DrezLab 9 months ago | reply
Magnífico.
Jazz_Lego 9 months ago | reply
Amazing work here, very inspirational. Thank you.
m_o_n_k_e_y 9 months ago | reply
great piece of design
davey_g 8 months ago | reply
Submit it as a T-shirt design to Threadless - you can make some money that way.
Mishria 5 months ago | reply
Cool poster, but the Snowspeeder is not a spaceship.
trike 5 months ago | reply
(I'm a little sad that I know that.)
Avanaut 5 months ago | reply
I did not give it too much thought when I made this poster, I figured the Snowspeeder would pass as a "spaceship" along with the other ships. I still think it's good to go with the others, even though, according to starwars.wikia.com, it is not supposed to be capable of spaceflight after all. I don't care, though, it's all within the science fiction realm. Cool ships, good enough for me. :D
Thank you all for the supporting comments!
Tehsi 5 months ago | reply
Wow, this is great. It reminded me of toys of days long past.
skrump 5 months ago | reply
This is awesome, Great Work!!! A friend shared this image on Facebook, and I hunted all over the Interwebs to find you. Damn those copyright issues, I would LOVE to buy a poster of this image and hang it in my boy's room! (The little dude is 2 years old, gotta get him started off right!)