VertexNormal's Avatar

VertexNormal

@vertexnormal.bsky.social

I make big stompy mechs in my free time to compensate for living on a mountain and not having a social life. I did a 15 year stint at Maxis as lead artist on SimCity and TheSims, now I work on actual robots - self driving cars.

78 Followers  |  32 Following  |  23 Posts  |  Joined: 18.09.2023  |  1.8211

Latest posts by vertexnormal.bsky.social on Bluesky

Post image

Still cranking away on the old battleship.

11.02.2025 08:52 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

1459 days to go!

21.01.2025 04:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

Cry haaavoc!

21.01.2025 04:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This isn't the kit you put together as a kid though, it has resin parts, photo etched brass parts and turned brass. Aftermarket detail kits can add a few hundred more.

10.01.2025 15:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

1/350 is $350, 1/200 is ~$5-600. 1/200 for an Iowa class battleship is like 5ft long though.

10.01.2025 15:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

note that the only thing on here modeled/textured to the final quality are the 5in DP guns pointing straight out to the sides.

10.01.2025 06:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

Trying to decide if I want to spend a couple hundred bucks on a model kit to use as reference or just scrap the whole project. Battleships are reaaaaly complicated apparently.

10.01.2025 06:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Nobody asked for Jupiter Ascending but here we are..

22.11.2024 06:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image 14.11.2024 07:43 — 👍 35    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Only took them 23 years! Hot Date was my first shipped title.

13.11.2024 20:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Post image

Trying to decide if I'm willing to dedicate the patience and love I would need to complete such a project.

08.11.2024 09:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image 08.11.2024 00:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

I did this more than a decade ago, maybe it's time to take another crack at The Big D.

08.11.2024 00:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My lizard brain sees this and goes "RARRR".. my physics brain sees this and goes "HUH?? WTF?".

08.11.2024 00:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can belittle your intelligence, question your breeding, or just generally be an a-hole to you if it helps you to feel more at home.

08.11.2024 00:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Post image

He's got leggggs.. and he knows how to smoosh you.

08.11.2024 00:09 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Post image 14.09.2024 01:43 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Post image 05.09.2024 17:51 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Post image 21.02.2024 22:12 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

When I was designing futuristic vehicles for SimCity I would have never made something as stupid looking as a Cybertruck, I would have probably been fired.

15.11.2023 00:05 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

#battletech

19.09.2023 23:03 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Just the basic facts, can you show me where it hurts?

18.09.2023 00:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hello.. is there anybody in there? Is there anyone at all?

18.09.2023 00:10 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

@vertexnormal is following 19 prominent accounts