Some of you knew him as Richard. He did the beautiful rendition of Norway as his avatar, and had many, many others of my ships in graphic representation—a talented artist, and a very welcome member here on Wave. He passed away unexpectedly this last week.
Losing Rich impoverishes us all. His talents and focus on Alliance-Union universe vessels were an inspiration and a source of wonder for all of his salads.
I will so miss Rich. He was such a gracious person. He had the ability to make everyone feel that he was their friend and that he was honored to listen to an opinion.
He took one comment of mine and made an entire graphic of the Pride of Chanur with it. Comments were always accepted and (even more impressive) added to his creative process.
We will miss you sorely, Rich. God’s speed.
?? Did he do the Illustrations for MayFair Games Company Wars?
The artwork looks similar. Sorry to hear of the loss.
I don’t think so; but he went from my sketch, and so did Mayfair. His rendition of the rider ships was far prettier than mine. Not to mention kif ships, and hani ships and others.
I am boggled. We’re losing too many people!
He will be missed.
Great guy, very talented. He’ll be missed and remembered.
here was the Pride of Chanur he was working on
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/mattjhamblin/Chanur.jpg
Rich was kind, interested in all things and very talented. Shon’ai, Rich.
HRHSpence: He took one comment of mine and made an entire graphic of the Pride of Chanur with it. Comments were always accepted and (even more impressive) added to his creative process.
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He told me more than once that the reason he totally redid the Hellburners was my comment after he posted Thor “round seems so …friendly”
He had an incredible sense of humor, witness the lovely Pride of Chanur, which led to the inflated looking Pride with larger cargo holds and then the progressively sillier Bumblebee Pride of Chanur and Pink Hello Kitty Pride of Chanur.
We lost him entirely too soon.
Carolyn, your Shon’jir lament from the Faded Sun Trilogy seems very appropriate here:
From Dark beginning
To Dark at ending,
Between them a Sun,
But after comes Dark,
And in that Dark,
One Ending
From Dark to Dark
Is one voyage.
From Dark to Dark
Is our voyage.
And after the Dark,
O brothers, O sisters,
Come we home.
Thanks< HRHSpence for finding the lament. Rich's ships made space more real for me. He will be missed.
No amount of losses makes the next one easier to bear.
I miss him.
Very much.
Rest in peace.
oh dear, that’s very sad. I love this image of the Pride …. perhaps we could see some more?
Please, please don’t tell me this was RKnuckalls from Shejidan. Please no!!!!
Joe, yes, Richard Knuckalls. I am very sorry to say.
Augh! I thought he was doing better since he was staying with his sister, who is an RN. I wonder what went wrong that he’s gone. People I make friends with and never get to meet shouldn’t be dying before that time. So that means nobody else can die before I meet you.
I am deeply saddened by our loss of Richard, I could feel his pain through his posts on Shejidan, and I had thought he was getting over that pain, too, just like the sickness. My condolences to his family and all of his friends.
This is a very sad occasion for our group as a whole. I feel cheated by death – I shared so many interests with Rich and he was opinionated but friendly, just the type of individual to liven up the conversation.
– S