I was tasked to build a durable Alien Spacecraft combining my imagination with raw industrial mechanical realism.
The alien spacecraft sculpture is less about smooth perfection and more about raw, industrial imagination made visible in metal.
It looks like it’s made from salvaged alien tech, a rough, tactile surface creating a sense of mechanical realism.
Most important are the proton cannons that bombard targets from a distance. The nuclear core power source feeds sustained firepower.
The central command bridge houses a floating nuclear reactor wrapped in armor, firing beams of concentrated energy.
First the sketch and then two strips of brass are filed to a taper, made half round and then soldered closed with another matching strip.
Making the command control body out of two domed shapes and then soldering them to the wing leading edges.
I make the inner body frame in similar way as the leading edges, except that I use a combination of brass and copper.
Now I add two inner struts that are a composite of five plates of 1 mm brass and copper sheet.
The frame is clad with copper foil (0.1 mm) thick. I anneal the copper first.
I repoussé and blacken the copper foil section of the wings.
I cut out the decorative wing shapes out of 1 mm aluminium plate.
Then I file them to half round shape. They are riveted to the copper foil.
I make the floating nuclear reactor cannon out of brass and silver.
It will be wired directly to the bridge central control room.
Composite picture of the proton cannon being manufactured.
I etched a pattern on the deck cover. Then added finishing touches of lethal shooting spikes to the floating nuclear core power source.
Now, for the bridge porthole windows. I made the copper armour and silver surround for the glass, that I am cutting on my gem cutting machine.
There are two forward facing needle cannon producing high energy light pulses on this attack craft.
A close-up of the command center portholes, the nuclear reactor and proton cannon ready for sci-fi warfare.
The underside of the control bridge of the spacecraft.
