"Soon
it will come to the folk-attention how close Wernher von Braun's birthday is to
the Spring Equinox..."
- Pynchon, 'Gravity's Rainbow'
Arduenn Schwartzman is
the creator of the marvellous 'Warbug' range of SL aircraft, as well as many
other gadgets, gizmos and widgets - not to mention the BratWurst
Oral Valentines Day Gift, the Potato
Chip Cruncher, the Terror Bunny
shoulder-pet and the adorable Wearable
Dogfight Planes.
Tutsy, the Puddlegums and I are big fans of
Arduenn's work. His sense of humour, sense of fun and creativity scream out at
you in most everything he makes.
Arduenn is currently working on a rather hush-hush project
with the much respected MadPea
Productions. We look forward to seeing the outcome of that
collaboration in a few months or so.
Tutsy and I discovered Arduenn's SL region, Black Forest , by accident when we were
looking for a specific scene for my MachinimUWA V entry, "Fwd: Evolution". As it happens,
we did find what we went looking for but on another region entirely! And then,
the scene in question didn't actually make it into the final cut of the film anyway!
And thus was the circuitous route that the Mistress of
Serendipity introduced us to Arduenn's creations! Since then, between the lot
of us, I reckon we must have purchased at least one of everything in his stores!
Of special interest to us in this particular blog-post is
Ardueen's fabulous 'WarBug' aircraft and the dogfights which occur in them at Black Forest .
The cumulative Combat Score for successfully shooting down
an opponent is displayed on this website. I am currently ranked #67.
Rocky Vansant - a charismatic and fun guy that I have met
before - is ranked #1. However, he somehow neglected to mention this fact while we were dogfighting...
Last week, I was dancing at Old
Lar's House when I received an IM from Arduenn. In amongst
our much longer chat was buried this gem in reference to the v2 iteration of
the LLab viewer:
Arduenn Schwartzman: I blame V2
Pixie Rain: the WW2 German rocket?
Arduenn Schwartzman: lol
Arduenn Schwartzman: I should make a V2 Warbug!
Pixie Rain: YES!
And so was born Arduenn's latest creation - the V-2 Warbug Rocket - which I am
grateful to be recognised as the Muse for and to have received a free copy of.
Saturday morning Tutsy and I piled over to Black
Forest itching to dogfight against all comers in our Red Barron and V-2 Rocket Warbugs,
respectively.
It is fair to say that Tutsy and my skill level was a tad or
two under Rocky and Arduenn's. But, it was nevertheless great fun and highly
recommended!
Watch this short film to see us in action - 'The WarBug Jitterbug'!:
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