Finally got my Lancaster kits, so my docking ring end cap CAD model is complete. Also trying out Maya’s Arnold renderer to render raw styrene plastic. I usually render stuff in KeyShot, but I like playing with new toys…
Lancaster
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Nichimo 1-500 Japanese IJN Ise
Tiny, tiny parts…
Airfix 1-72 Pontoon Bridge Girders
These girders make me see double…
Tamiya 1-12 Ferrari 312B Engine assembly
Sometimes, when modeling donor kits, I realize that the parts I’m digitizing actually make something other than a Millennium Falcon… Most of the engine parts from Ferrari 312B are used. Assembling them digitally was a cool way of cross-checking that my parts are accurate. All the little gaps and misalignments in the original plastic parts are a good test of accuracy…
Airfix 1-72 Lockheed Hudson
Bandai 1-15 Panzer IV
Radar Dish
Some studies on the radar dish assemblies
Tamiya Ferrari 312B bits
more to come – but these are some of the big ones…
Cockpit Canopy Greebles
Master Model Update
Those gun platforms and docking rings will need to attach to something. Our master model is still in flux. More than a year after Andre and I published our version 1.0 draft, we’re still discovering new things. Not ready to start cutting plastic yet, still some details to work out. Thank goodness digital prototyping in Fusion 360 allows us to make all sorts of mistakes for free…
