The Luveno

So Doug came over one evening and brought his trays of Perler Beads all sorted by colour. I gave him a few bucks to cover him for enough beads to start my first project.

I got thinking about how much I loved those old school 8-bit games. My favourite by far was Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System. This 1988 game was way ahead of its time, and I remember playing it when I was in Junior High School. It featured the illusion of 3D dungeons and highly-detailed monsters. It had a great story that mixed both fantasy and science fiction. What I enjoyed the most was the ability to explore three different planets by hopping on various spacecraft.

Hence, my decision for a first bead project. The Luveno was a spacecraft that the Phantasy Star main characters had to find part way through the game in order to make their way to the third planet, Dezoris. Some screenshots...

Overall, the Luveno took about one hour to complete as my first Perler Bead Pixel Art project. The beads were able to fit on one regular-sized Perler peg board. Once all the beads were in place on the board, they were fused together using an iron. The results (on my ugly wall)...