Interior, Jamestown Moon Base. Wall plan. Modeled in SketchUp and drawn in Layout.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base. Wall wilding plan. Modeled in SketchUp and drawn in Layout.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base. Flooring plans and flooring details. Modeled in SketchUp and drawn in Layout.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base. Reflected plan and ceiling details. Modeled in SketchUp and drawn in Layout.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base. Sections and elevations. Modeled in SketchUp and drawn in Layout.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base. Airlock hatchway detail. This does not include the CNC files to make the pieces of the hatchway coaming.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base, Airlock hatch detail. This does not include the CNC files to make the pieces of the hatch.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base. Galley detail. This does not include the CNC files.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base. Materials, VFX, SFX, and Dressing call-outs. Even though we drew everything and Construction built it, different departments paid for and installed different parts. This all had to be kept straight.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base. Materials, VFX, SFX, and Dressing call-outs.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base. Materials, VFX, SFX, and Dressing call-outs.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base. Materials, VFX, SFX, and Dressing call-outs.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base. Materials, VFX, SFX, and Dressing call-outs.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base working set. View, towards the airlock hatch.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base working set. Galley view, plotting table in FG.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base working set. Galley view.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base working set. Airlock atrium, airlock hatch in the open position. The hatch levers and dogs work. Yes, it was a pain in the neck to work out.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base working set. Airlock atrium, airlock hatch in the closed position.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base working set. View toward docking adapter. This set was only 20 feet (6m) across but took three months to build and dress.
Interior, Jamestown Moon Base working set. View toward bunks from the galley.
Lunar Cable Car, Plans and Elevations. Modeled in SketchUp and drawn in Layout
Lunar Cable Car, Welding and structural details. Modeled in SketchUp and drawn in Layout
Lunar Cable Car, base station decking assembly drawings. Modeled in SketchUp and drawn in Layout
Lunar Cable Car, Cable car assembly drawing. Modeled in SketchUp and drawn in Layout
Lunar Cable Car, Cable car winch details, and assembly drawings. Modeled in SketchUp and drawn in Layout
Lunar Cable Car, truss detail, and decking assembly drawing. Modeled in SketchUp and drawn in Layout
Lunar Cable Car, Dressing plan. Modeled in SketchUp and drawn in Layout
Lunar Cable Car, working set.
Lunar Cable Car, working set. Lit.
Lunar Cable Car, working set. The scissor lift below the cable car allowed it to raise and lower. The lift traveled on tracks. By manipulating the two the car would appear to slide down a cable. The cables would be added in post as CG.
Lunar Cable Car, working set, lit. The scissor lift is deployed, It was later covered in a green shroud so the lift could be removed in post.
For All Mankind is a fictitious, alternate history that begins with the deceptively simple premise that the Soviet Union lands on the moon first. This shifts the entire cold war to a race to colonize (and thus militarize) the moon. The first season covers the years 1969 to1973 and it required us to build the Jamestown Lunar Habitat, a cable car that descends the side of Shackleton crater, Ice mining equipment, an advanced, double-sized LEM as well as pieces of Saturn V exteriors, fighter plane cockpits, chunks of the NASA launch towers, all of mission control…etc, etc. It was not simple in any way, shape, or form. I was on moon base detail and was responsible for Jamestown Base, the cable car system, ice mining junk, and a miscellany of rocket and plane parts. Jamestown was the most involved set of drawings I have done since Armageddon and the most involved I have ever done solo. Eighty pages of drawings and twenty-seven CNC patterns (no ‘quantity over quality’ jokes). And that does not include the custom-designed set dressing or 3d printed parts. The most interesting part of this very demanding project was the sheer variety of materials we worked in. Often, we constructed our NASA hardware from the same materials that were used in the original space program. We also pushed the boundaries of what CNC routing could do, as the exhausted faces of the CNC guys at Dangling Carrot Creative will attest. When a construction coordinator says ‘It ain’t rocket science.’ I got news for him…
