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
MC Styling for Poulsen Motors
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 🙂
Holidays, Void Crew and LEGO
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 🙂
Void Crew is live!
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 🙂
Free F-20A Hammerhead for MSFS 2020
Since MSFS announced they’re going to update to a 2024 version I don’t have the time to finish the Hammerhead in the way I want. So I’m releasing what I have now for free so people can at least have some fun with it and then I’ll probably transition to making an updated Hammerhead for MSFS 2024 once that releases 🙂
You can download the community version of the jet via google Drive here, note: This only works for PC users, I don’t think it can be played via Xbox. Why didn’t I release it on the MSFS Marketplace? Well it sorta has weapons which isn’t allowed there – also – it isn’t finished! – I think it’s a fun little hotrod of a jet as it is now, the cockpit needs an overhaul, but I don’t have the time currently, enjoy it as it is and I’ll return with a better model next year 🙂
To install a community jet in MSFS you need to go to your Users/ your name /AppData/Roaming/Microsoft Flight Simulator/Packages/Community folder and drop the “witus-f-20a-hammerhead” folder from the drive link there. When you load up MSFS next time it should be selectable in your hangar 🙂
The jet is a thought experiment between me and Lt. Col. Thibaut from the Royal Danish Air Force – a super small jet with some stealth capabilities ( the downloadable jet here is in “beast mode” so it’s very un-stealthy currently ) I wrote a post about it last year, if you’re interested in the details you can investigate it here
A few tips and tricks:
The jet will shut down the engine if you pull the power all the way back ( past the idle stop ) – that’s realistic – but annoying 😉
You can start the engine by pressing CTRL and E – even in flight, – you don’t need to turn on the battery, APU and ignition in the cockpit, they’re just there for show ( the jet is basically a revamp of the F/A-18, but I couldn’t get the start up to work properly since the Hammerhead is a 1 engine bird, but! CTRL and E works like a charm, even though it’s cheating a bit ).
There’s a lot of vibration around 800 knots / 1482 kph / 921 mph and nosewheel steering is a little wonky, if you turn it off – it stays off :S – so rather have it and be careful on the pedals, then not have it..
I hope you have a lot of fun with it, it’s a been a challenging process for me and I wouldn’t have made it this far without the many contributors to the MSFS modding community, I would particularly like to thank Jonx for the tutorials and guides he’s made for everyone, thanks man!
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