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ll adding things like turbolaser turrets aerials and dishes i had a few design touchstones in mind but nothing i studied overly closely first was the consular cruiser from the prequels i d already built one of these and i liked the central section with its array of sensors and communications equipment as a republic ship it would make sense for similar elements to transition into a similarly sized imperial vessel second were actual real world naval corvettes just as star destroyers echo the design of real world battleships i wanted something that evoked smaller military ships that ties in with the desire to have more stuff protruding above the hull finally i was thinking about other fan designers of star wars ships and particularly ec henry s work reinterpreting early or barely seen designs from the original films such as this it s also worth calling out these fan designs i found on the ffg forum from when the raider was first announced they did a lot to shape my early ideas about where i wanted to go with this and to convince me that chopping up the ship could lead to something i would like but as for my actual method once i d taken off the wings and made those hull extensions i pretty much just sat down with my box of spare parts and bits of other models and tried things out till i had something i liked and here s what i ended up with i m happy with this it s very much a mini star destroyer but i m happy with that it makes sense in the same way a naval corvette is pretty much a mini destroyer it s got a much more defined superstructure that draws a bit on prequel ships like the venator and even aethersprite starfighter these were unconscious influences at first but as i recognised them i decided to go with it they make sense in terms of the development of an early civil war ship i think the more pronounced bridge provides more of a visual focus and together with the larger turrets helps establish the scale better i ve got the antennas turrets and communications dish but actually fewer of these than i d planned with the raised bridge i didn t feel like i needed too many of them and although i toyed with other star destroyer elements like the shield generator bulbs and the x shaped tractor beam emitter tiara that sits on top of the bridge tower i didn t feel like they quite worked visually or made sense on a ship of this size i m very happy with the removed wings there s some lovely detail on the bottom of the model which they almost totally conceal i briefly considered turning the whole thing upside down but it was tricky to work with the mounting pegs and with the hull extensions it still feels balanced and not overly narrow finally i repainted it in a much paler off white colour scheme closer to the star destroyers of a new hope and rogue one this ties in with a back story i d cooked up that this is the raider i class which was in use before the destruction of the first death star particularly on the empire s furthest frontiers as the empire recognised the threat posed by rebel starfighters the raider was redesigned with the latest more streamlined technology as more of an anti starfighter vessel nicely it turns out that battlefront ii refers to the raider there as a raider ii so this all fits quite nicely i hope other people will like this but i m sure many will consider it sacrilege ultimately i m happy with it and that s all i care about next time i field this alongside a fleet of ties it s going to feel a bit more like my kind of star wars i m looking forward to it hot air and high winds a love letter to the fantasy airship february 8 2020 philip boyes leave a comment i ve written another article for eurogamer this time about the empirically best form of transport https www eurogamer net articles 2020 02 08 hot air and high winds a love letter to the fantasy airship new book understanding relations between scripts ii early alphabets december 3 2019 philip boyes leave a comment the first book i ve worked on is now available understanding relations between scripts ii early alphabets edited by me and philippa steele is the first book to emerge from the crews research project into ancient writing it s based on a conference held in 2017 and includes chapters from a number of experts on early writing thanks to eu european research council funding which also funded the conference this is based on and pays my wages the whole thing is available open access you can download it on the publications page of this site if you d prefer a physical copy you can get those from the oxbow website they re currently discounted contexts of and relations between early writing systems crews is a project funded by the european research council under the european union s horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant agreement no 677758 and based in the faculty of classics university of cambridge understanding relations between scripts ii early alphabets is the first volume in this series bringing together ten experts on ancient writing languages and archaeology to present a set of diverse studies on the early development of alphabetic writing systems and their spread across the levant and mediterranean during the second and first millennia bc by taking an interdisciplinary perspective it sheds new light on alphabetic writing not just as a tool for recording language but also as an element of culture contents acknowledgements abbreviations 1 introduction issues in studying early alphabets philip j boyes and philippa m steele 2 a ʽtop downʼ re invention of an old form cuneiform alphabets in context silvia ferrara 3 variation in alphabetic cuneiform rethinking the phoenician inscription from sarepta philip j boyes 4 ancient egypt and the earliest known stages of alphabetic writing ben haring 5 much ado about an implement the phoenicianising of early alphabetic reinhard g lehmann 6 vowel representation in the archaic greek and old aramaic scripts a comparative orthographic and phonological examination roger d woodard 7 mother or sister rethinking the origins of the greek alphabet and its relation to the other western alphabets willemijn waal 8 the development of greek alphabets fluctuations and standardisations philippa m steele 9 between scripts and languages inscribed intricacies from geometric and archaic greek contexts giorgos bourogiannis 10 the matter of voice the umbrian perspective karin w tikkanen 11 writings in network the case of palaeohispanic scripts coline ruiz darasse bibliography anthropological horror in doctor who october 11 2019 philip boyes 1 comment a couple of weeks ago i watched the 1977 doctor who story image of the fendahl it s not the best example of the series not by a long shot but it s lingered in my mind because despite the things that don t work the wonky pacing the stilted performances the fact that the monster doesn t really do anything there s so much there that does it s bubbling with great ideas the atmosphere is wonderfully spooky the monsters look great when they re not moving even if they have nothing to do there are some sparkling lines of dialogue there s an anthropologists dog called leakey i keep thinking about how you might rejig the story to really work what really appeals about image of the fendahl is its use of palaeoanthropology many of the non regulars are anthropologists bringing novel scientific techniques to bear on extremely early human remains or are they the idea of a human skull from too old a stratum that reveals a pentagram in the bone sutures when x rayed is genuinely creepy as is its concern with the deep time of human existence all those long aeons before we organised ourselves into settled urban communities and started writing history anything could lurk in that vast span of years what if there was something fundamentally off with humanity s whole evolutionary process thinking about these ideas led me to wondering about anthropological horror as a subgenre and whether it s really a thing whether it could be google doesn t turn up much i should say now i m not the world s biggest expert on horror fiction and nor am i an anthropologist except in the sense that any archaeologist has to dabble in the discipline to some extent i do know doctor who though so that seems like a good place to begin looking for other examples of anthropological horror and to start to define what it is continue reading building a star wars medical frigate september 29 2019 september 29 2019 philip boyes leave a comment it s been a long time since i ve posted here i know sorry about that i ve been busy partly work partly not one of the things i ve been busy with since i last posted is getting somewhat obsessed with the x wing miniatures game it s a fun and in depth tactics game involving little star wars spaceships so regular followers of this blog will see why i like it but i don t want to talk about the game itself today because i ve also been getting caught up in the arts and crafts aspect of the hobby mostly that s meant repainting ships which i ve done a whole lot of but from time to time i ve also made my own ships that started with an extremely rough and ready extra tie fighter i made not long after getting the starter set purely to beef up my rather thin imperial roster two years or so on i now have all the tie fighters i could ever want and my ship building has switched to the vessels that don t yet exist in the game the first proper project i undertook was director krennic s shuttle from rogue one when that was a success i moved on to something a bit more challenging with more colour and a lot more surface detail the consular class republic cruiser that appears at the beginning of the phantom menace and throughout the clone wars that went very well and i still love looking at it up on my bookcase now that a growing slate of republic ships are appearing in the game i m looking forward to flying it properly but what i ve always really wanted to tackle was the rebel medical frigate that first appeared in the empire strikes back the nebulon b escort frigate to give it its proper name is one of the most iconic and gorgeous big ships in star wars its unorthodox shape making for an extremely visually interesting ship that combines power and fragility as well as a wealth of details that make it a model maker s dream or nightmare depending how you look at it i ve tried making one before early in my x wing career i built a 1 350 scale one out of foamcore card and paper clay the card nebulon b it s lost its stand and static discharge vanes in the intervening years this went ok and i had a lot of fun doing it but you can t get a lot of detail out of card and it turned out i d made it too big to really be practical to use in game as my shipmaking skills grew i knew i wanted to revisit it and make a slightly smaller nebulon b out of plastic this summer i did continue reading haunted futures and alien archaeologies january 7 2019 january 18 2019 philip boyes 1 comment just before christmas i attended the annual theoretical archaeology group conference in chester to be honest i mostly steered clear of the hardcore theory while i do quite like it i liked it on my own terms and when my brain is feeling fresh and focused the week before christmas at the end of a long and tiring year not so much but there was a lot else going on at the conference and i attended several inspiring panels about outreach engagement and how archaeology relates to other fields i ve written about the conference in general over on the crews blog but here i wanted to go into a little detail about my own paper which was firmly in this blog s thematic ambit since it was about the archaeology of alien megastructures in fiction continue reading writing in time and space the writing systems of doctor who october 5 2018 philip boyes leave a comment i ve written about invented writing in doctor who over on the crews project blog anyone who s followed the crews blog will know that we re fond of a bit of sci fi and fantasy we ve talked about the writing systems of star wars game of thrones and indiana jones but ever since i was a kid my absolute favourite piece of science fiction has been doctor who since it s finally back this weekend what better time to look at how it handles writing view original post 1 188 more words further experiments in ancient baking pop tarblets august 14 2018 august 14 2018 philip boyes leave a comment i ve been trying my hand at ancient baking again over on the crews project blog a couple of weeks ago when i wrote about my visit to the british museum one person commented that the cuneiform tablets looked like pop tarts anyone familiar with the crews project and our love of ancient baking will know that this is the sort of challenge we can t let go i haven t had pop tarts since i was a kid and not too often then but it turns out they re not too difficult to make naturally we had to give it a try view original post 357 more words jabba s guide to bronze age diplomacy august 2 2018 august 2 2018 philip boyes 4 comments i just mentioned jabba the hutt in the academic book i m writing at first it was a bit of a joke something that would never make it through the first edit but actually the more i think about it the more i think it s helpful i m going to drop one of those terrible academic clichés now so forgive me but when it comes to the late bronze age mediterranean jabba might actually be good to think with let me explain continue reading rebel scum conceptualising rebellion in star wars and the ancient near east june 25 2018 june 25 2018 philip boyes 2 comments the ancient world is full of rebellion in my patch the bronze age near east the world was one of dominant great kings with imperial aspirations in the southern mediterranean was egypt ancient and arrogant in the east babylon and later assyria in the north the hurrian kingdom of mitanni which was later supplanted by the hittite empire most histories of the bronze age tell political and military tales of the waxing and waning of these great empires and the great campaigns of their rulers people like ramesses ii or šuppiluliuma i but these empires weren t all there was of course there are other histories to be told in my research i work on ugarit a small but important kingdom on what s now the syrian coast it was militarily weak but a great trading power like many of the small levantine kingdoms it found itself charting a dangerous course between the rival influences of its powerful neighbours in the middle bronze age it seems to have aligned itself with egypt but around the middle of the second millennium bc it made the shrewd political decision to invite in the hittites and become a vassal sparing itself the punishing repercussions of being taken by force for the great kings of the bronze age these smaller kingdoms were one of two things vassals either their own or someone else s assuming they accepted the legitimacy of the claim or rebels the latter was not ...