News..

18th May 2012

Last but one update of this Lynx cutaway, almost done

Lightning and 2001 craft and roman stuff to come Amazon tie-in with my forthcoming shop was activated yesterday, news on Cutaway posters

and print images to come over the week following next

cutaway westland lynx

17th May 2012

Yikes, test of wild animals for perspective new client...

elephant rhino

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16th May 2012

Cutaway Lynx now getting weaponed up ( sorry- terrible English ) Yikes, they are heavily armed!

cutaway Westland Lynx weapons up

14th May 2012

Ooopps - forgot to post the Cutaway Orion spacecraft form 2001: a Space Odyssey- Progress so far is slow as there are so many of these things to do.

Heres the latest scamp..about 20% done

Cutaway Orion spacecraft from 2001: a space odyssey

Started the texturemapping of the Cutaway Lynx and also started the detail refinement for those interested

cutaway lynx

13th May 2012

Update of the Lynx and preparation of a new section for the homepage showing the MADDEST BADDEST MACHINE of the month as voted by you.

Thanks to Emily and John for picking the first that you think should win.. results to come next week!

Westland lynx cutaway

10th May 2012

Another update of the venue of the super-boat thing interiors

ghdyk

10th May 2012

The revamp of the new Bowerhouse Magazine starts with a revamp of the new Bowerhouse website, new levels of patience needed here!

Additional icons on the home page showing what can be done 3d wise for displays etc.

9th May 2012

Yet another revamp of the royal olympic venue! yikes, seems to be endless.

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hfh

nmh

7th May 2012

Getting hassled now by the client to finish these 2001 craft for the book and poster market- heres the exterior of the

Discovery and pod before the interior reveal and texturemapping. Bitch of a model to create as its so complex...

New spacecraft gif link added on the home page

2001: a space odyssey discovery ship

6th May 2012

more progress on the Lynx, just hard slog now, sigh

cutaway lynx

 

5th May 2012

Even more changes to the site and an experiment for a friend; Mr Harper...

sink

4th May 2012

More changes to the site, most animations will now play on tablet devices such as the ipad and smart phones etc..

3rd May 2012

Two new commisions: a Westland Lynx and an English Electric Lightning cutaway, should be fun.

Heres a gif of the very early stages.

lynx

2nd May 2012

Another update of the site to make it more manageable and also the first of several main mag and shop updates to come as I can fit them in

1st May 2012

My goodness its May already and its raining again for a change - no worries, big changes are afoot with the promised shop opening

and the announcement of an entirely new and revamped Bowerhouse magazine!.

For the uninformed: Bowerhouse will be a homage to the Amazing Martin Bower who many sci-fi fans will know

built many of the models for the Gerry Anderson shows and major Sci-fiction feature films, all of which will be covered in

articles in a new e-magazines format.

Martins fantastic model making skills will be show-cased with many amusing anecdotes and episodes of his life as a professional model builder.

Bowerhouse will also be encouraging Sci-fi amateur model builders to submit photographs of your models to appear in the magazine.

Details of the conditions and timings will be posted in this exciting mag soon.

 

Some of you guys have been wondering what happens to visuals of the concepts I am asked to illustrate: so here is an example of what happens.

Below is a link to the Thorn lighting stand I did earlier this year and the eventual finished article- enjoy!

ALSO: toying around with several requests to have a Maddest Baddest Machine section... sounds like an awesome idea- watch this space..

http://www.thornlighting.com/holding/l_b_gallery/

Vulkan

 

29th April 2012

New Banner page and additions to come...

26th April 2012

Lancaster Dambuster cutaway poster first draft to guage reaction before the addition of all interior detail

Cutaway Dambuster poster

Part of the animated sequence without full texturemapping for speed- finals to follow.

cutaway dambuster cuaway dambuster

cutaway dambuster

25th April 2012

Work continues with the Dambusters e-book I'm working on with Nick Spender and a poster along

with another secret project I am trying to get permission to post.

Clients pretty cagey though, more later

cutaway dambuster cutaway lancater dambuster

23rd April 2012

More Titanic sequence

cutaway Titanic sflf cutaway titanic 16

22nd April 2012

Titanic sequence in 1st draft for the Titanic poster with the dambusters to follow in the next couple of days.

Very busy with all these super-detailed jobs. Shop opening soon!

cutaway titanic sequence 3 cutaway titanic sequence 4 cutaway titanic sequence 5

cutaway titanic sequence 6 cutaway titanic sequence 7 cutaway titanic sequence 8

cutaway titanic sequence 9b cutaway titanic sequence 10b cutaway titanic sequence 13

Cutaway titanic sequence 14 Cleaned up versions to come , sequence last 21 frames so more to come.

16th April 2012

Another quick scamp for Don at the royal enclosure, nearly there.

visual of royal enclosure

14th April 2012

You will have noticed I have switched the order of this part of the site so that you can see almost immediately

what I have done instead of trawling through all the old stuff, so its new stuff first

and old stuff at the bottom! Thanks for the headsup from you guys!

who hate having to wait for the new stuff at the bottom of this part of the blog-site

Scramjet for Frechman

cutaway scramjet

11th April 2012

More Olympic Venue...

venue

venue 2

cutaway venue

25th march 2012

Another update- this time of the Hercules transport for HIW, one of the most successful aircraft of all time

known for its robustness and breath of abilities

hercules cutaway

This Titanic has most of the elements in place and will soon be a super-detailed printed poster that can be bought here online

watch this space...

cutaway titanic

24th March 2012

Another update of the Titanic, so much mail about this model, I will get back to you guys when I have a moment to think

engine room

steering gear

staircase

 

18th March 2012

Update of the Cutaway Type 45 for Haynes Manuals super detailed, roughly halfway there. Gulp!

Type 45 cutaway three quarter view

16th March 2012

Update of the Vulkan stand at the Thorn lighting hall

Vulkan

vulkan 2

 

14th March 2012

The finished result: This can be seen in the BBC's focus magazine explaining how modern ships have technology

that the Titanic could only have dreampt of. Enjoyable job

ky

A revision to this news site is about to happen. Things are taking far too long to load in this site as the volume of work fills the

site too quickly, my rule of thumb was to take things off the top and archive them once they had been up for a year.

I now realise that even that is too much and will be only keeping news here for 6-9 months to speed up the loading

process, I will obviously shift the old stuff to "archived news" but now realise that even that will have to be truncated.

I will let you guys know in due course.

 

10th March 2012

Azimuth control for a passenger ship for the BBC

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8th March 2012

More detail and an update of the new cruise ship cutaway I am doing for the BBC focus magazine

More to come on other projects, apologies to Luke, Jane and natalie in the lack of updates as it is very busy.

Hello Jane!

 

24th Febuary 2012

More visuals for Thorn industries and an Update of the Titanic poster

note: engines and boilers going in. State rooms and engines next..

Update delayed just a day for maintenance

20th Feb 2012

Another small Titanic update of the engine firing sequence

21st Febuary 2012

Titanic lifeboat so far, detailing to come

17th Febuary 2012

Another small update of the DC3 Cockpit for Frechman

tjt

 

24th January 2012

Trieste so far for HIW

Also the 707 for Frechman so far pre-design page

28th Jan 2012

Trieste final for HIW

nearly finished Boiler of the Titanic...

Almost finished DC3 for Frechman...

2nd Febuary 2012

Update on DC3..

7th Febuary 2012

Another update, this time its the Junkers J52 for frechman so far

15th feb 2012

Small update of the JU52 but t big one coming of the Titanic soon

16th Febuary 2012

Quick update of the Junkers JU52 cockpit

 

4th January 2012

Thorn new stand first sketches

 

Mirage 2000 for HIW finished 9th January 2012

10th January 2012

2 lovely commisions from HIW for the JSF f-35 and the Trieste deep sea submersible, fun

and one huge commision from 2 seperate clients of the Titanic! so exciting!

Watch this space!

16th January 2012

Finished f-35 with exploded engine parts

and heres the first sneak peak of a partially exploded Titanic...

21st January 2012

Update of Titanic and a great honour to be the first illustrator to be allowed to do the illustrations in 3d for the Haynes series of manuals

that has traditionally been rendered in black and white . wow.

Haynes manual of the type 45

Boiler so far off the Titanic

18th December 2011

 

 

All this works on ipads: click on thumbnails below to go to interactive animations

Happy new year!

13th December 2011

An experiment to go in the new Fantastic series of e-books to go on sell soon..

12th December 2011

The finished Pirate ship.. The Pirates life for me..!

jdliy

Mirage Delta 2000 to come next...

7th December 2011

More visuals for Don and the olympic venue and very swanky canopy!

 

 

29th November 2011

Completed tnker to How it works for Helen Laidlaw.

gj

 

28th November 2011

A cutaway pirate ship being prepared for HIW's magazine as briefed by Helen again- love that girl!

tk

25th November 2011

Cutaway of an oil tanker for Helen at HIW

jt

 

November 18th 2011

Yikes here come the russians to the royal dock! Part of the olympic venue along with the Oligagh boats or is that ocean liners!?

More to come of the venue!

very early sketches of the canopy, next step is to dress the set, so to speak.

November 9th 2011

Avro Lancaster Dambuster filling in nicely

ky

 

7th November 2011

Completed B-17 for Helen @ HIW

Lovely job coming up for the olympics coming shortly for Don Jones design, a real biggy! cant wait!

Also, a taster of the new super -detailed Dambusters book and interactive cutaways on the forthcoming Dambusters e-book!

!st November 2011

Lots more updates in the new visuals section ( click here )

Update of new B-17 for HIW's emag and mag

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1st september 2011

first 2 covers for the Flight Frechman book series

3rd September 2011

Endpaper roughs

5th October 2011 Pano tech for new client

12th October 2011

Lots more updates in the new visuals section ( click here )

Thorn

 

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