Hi, I hope this post/question is okay - I’m doing some art that includes various radio antennas and I’d really like to run them past someone who knows more than I do to make sure they look okay.
I’m working on location art for a solarpunk TTRPG campaign and am doing a scene for a somewhat old fashioned (in this setting), heavily automated farm. The guy who lives here does a lot of the work maintaining a meshnet in the mostly-abandoned town where the campaign takes place. I figure he’s also sort of generally a tinkerer and has probably amassed a decent assortment of old tech.
The last time I was working on a scene with antennas I asked the folks over on r/hamradio for advice and they were super helpful so I reused a lot of the antennas from before, and tried to scale them to match that scene and to photographs I’ve seen, but I’m definitely not knowledgeable on this stuff and am happy to make changes to get it right.
As before, I really just want to make sure it doesn’t look offensively dumb to folks in the ham radio scene, and if you have any recommendations for antennas you’d like to see or that would say something interesting, I’d be happy to include them. Thanks for any advice you feel like giving!
Also is that a drone swarm flying out of the top window? That’s so cool!
It is! On a previous project I read up a bunch on agricultural UAVs and how some farms even send out multiple passes with different types of drones before going out in person to inspect an issue, and I fell in love with the idea of a farmer adding a sort of drone hangar to their barn. It’s probably not a realistic amount of UAVs but I love the visual of drones just pouring out like bats.
That’s super cool, like a technological aviary. I’m imagining a Ghibli-like scene with uavs starting their day, streaming out of the attic in the early morning with melancholy piano in the background. They’re up in the attic bantering like the attic of the post office in Baldurs Gate 3. That’s a great detail!