We know a true steampunky visionary artist when we see one, and Michael T. Rea is definitely one of them. But we’re a bit biased  – multi barrel ray guns and wooden mecha war-suits are the type of design preferences that only daily gadget bloggers can acquire over the years.

Using materials such as wood, burlap, and rope, the artist creates life-sized versions of objects that appear in the fantastical worlds of science fiction and tries to make them come to life through the material.

While he says in his website that fictional stories (like time travel) inevitably lead to false interpretations, the use of the hard, lignified, earthy substance known as wood, plus its deliberate process, also convey an element of reality to the far-off ideas.

But what we probably like the most about these wooden designs is the effect they have on our imagination. Taking a couple of woodworking classes, we're completely certain, will inevitably lead to the creation of our own wooden spaceship which we'll use to get out of dodge city when the Day comes.

Check out other some of the other sci-fi wood structures after the break.