So what do you do for fun around here? – well for me – I’m really into flying these days – And currently I’m midway to having my real world private pilots license, but on the side I’m also creating a campaign for the most complicated combat simulator accessible for civilian use – and here’s the teaser trailer! because, you know, why not commercialize it and have my hobby work for me? 😀
My telephone number is being used for spoofing apparently, so if I call you and I don’t sound like myself, while asking for your credit card details, PIN number, waist size or other personal details, please just hang up. Tech support says there’s nothing I can do, but I reported the issue with my carrier, – the average time “they” typically use a number like this is 2 weeks :S
A friend of mine, Torben Poulsen, has created his own electric MC brand and is currently marketing his first motorcycle via his website here – I thought the bike looked interesting and suggested I could do a styling pitch for it, just to expand on where the design could go in the future.
The design I came up with is a simplistic retro futuristic approach that covers the central components of the bike. It adds legacy style gauges where the tank cap would normally sit and lowers the handlebar to allow for a more sporty style rider position.
You can inspect the new design here
Electric vehicles are often measured on range and efficiency, in this case the styling could help achieve slightly better aerodynamics, but it in order to be fully efficient, a wind screen and other alterations would be necessary to properly include the rider in the overall airflow.
Having a tachometer isn’t really necessary on an electric motorbike, but since it connects to the legacy feel it’s included, in this case it’s purely an aesthetic parameter that measures the revolutions of the electric engine.
It’s going to be interesting to see where the design goes from here, Poulsen Motors have expressed interest in taking the design further, so let’s see. As an added benefit my design students will be able to use this as an interesting foundation for their upcoming electric vehicle design class 🙂
During the recent holidays I started building Void Crew models just for entertainment purposes, but I quickly ran out of bricks the right color and size so I took the project online where I found LeoCAD
( freeware LEGO builder from 1997, that still runs great on any machine ) you can find it here.
The project became way more ambitious when I suddenly had access to unlimited legacy bricks, so I decided to build a version of the Metem Destroyer from Void Crew.
Scale wise it’s not really big enough for minifigures, but it was an interesting challenge to interpolate the design 
and there’s some silly choices in there, especially the airlock, which is a screen door brick I think
Anyway, I just wanted to share the result here if anyone else is both a Void Crew and LEGO fan and want to keep building on the model I made or create their own. LeoCAD is free and the native format is .ldr – You should be able to use it if I upload it to a drive link here
I suppose next step is to go and create a bigger model that will allow for minifigures inside OR go and order the bricks for this one and try building it RL – anyway, have a great 2024 ya’ll 🙂
So what’s been happening lately?
Well for the last 1.5 years I’ve been hired as an external 3D artist, working on hard surface designs for a 2 – 4 player Coop space pew pew FPS adventure game. It released on Steam the 7th of September and it’s a lot of fun to play, you can try it out for yourself here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1063420/Void_Crew/
Later, I’m gonna compile a few examples of what my involvement was on the project and see if I can get it cleared for public viewing, but for now, here’s the launch trailer 🙂
