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Xilisoft is not happy with the encryption algorithm on this Thunderbirds 1965 Blu-ray, but that doesn't mean that we're not doin' it :D ...

I doodled the combat cruiser from Gerry Anderson's Firestorm on a post it note.
It turned out okay so I shoved it through Photoshop.

Here's an old outline of an early layout for the Dai-X's booster in X-Bomber the Game.
I shaded it and gave it some more greebles.

I feel a bit like Indiana Jones; unearthing the lost treasure.  :D

People may well have come across these photos of this Japanese Starlog magazine poster, featuring, well,  pretty-much-everything from the show ...

I used to think that this was from a separate issue of the magazine to the black-and-white Dai-X cutaway, but reading between the lines on these tweets from Re93679621 makes me think that this might've been the opposite side of the same poster, or at least included in the same issue.

https://twitter.com/Re93679621/status/1135483271788109824
https://twitter.com/Re93679621/status/1180059596674588672

If any Star Fleet fans know any more about it, give me a shout in the comments.
Anyway, you can see a lot of scans that I've accumulated from different places of the Starlog and Televi magazine features at:
https://xbomber.co.uk/?dir=Star+Fleet%2FArticles+and+Scans%2FStarlog+and+Televi-kun

When I was clearing out my old rubbish, I found the PADD that I made when TNG was on BBC2 back in the 90s.
I did the graphics in a publishing package by Sierra that we had on a Win 95 toaster.  It got printed on photocard and wrapped around ... a small chopping board or something that had the right rounded corners.
What I had for reference was a TNG trading card with a fuzzy photo of the prop since ... there was no internet.
Anyway, it was kinda-not-in-great-shape-anymore so it got binned, but not before I fed it thru the V750 Pro and fixed it a bit in Photoshop.

Been nearly 48hrs since I spammed people with Thunder in Paradise screenies. This time, it's disc 2:
http://www.xbomber.co.uk/?dir=Other%2FTV+Shows+-+Thunder+in+Paradise%2FReliable+Media+-+Disc+2

For my walkthrough of Terminal Velocity; forerunner of Fury3, I wanted screenshots from the game's cutscenes.
Unfortunately, unlike Fury3, whose cutscenes are in AVI format, TV has video files which I can't open in any application other than the game itself.

So I found a great application called Screenshotter, which generates timed-interval screengrabs in a range of image formats. You can have it capture a specific monitor or even a specific window.  It also has a logic that suspends the capture when it senses that less than a certain number of pixels since the last capture.

I let this thing run while I triggered off the cutscenes one-after-another from the game's hidden video interface menu.

I'm building quite a big new section on xbomber.co.uk to inflict as much Thunder in Paradise on as many people as possible.
 Here are a few edited highlights of the screenshots from disc 1 of the series:
http://www.xbomber.co.uk/?dir=Other%2FTV+Shows+-+Thunder+in+Paradise%2FReliable+Media+-+Disc+1

I put up an illustration of this space outpost a few months ago,
Since then, I found another old outline of it from a different angle, which I worked on a little bit in terms of shading and Photoshop.

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