52nd_state said:
hello
i got your terminal pep file off your flickr page and started making one of my own. hope you don't mind.
i have the model printed on regular paper and glued to some really hard cardboard. i was thinking of fiberglassing (sp?) the model and making a frame of metal around a the lian li motherboard thingy to fit inside. i will be using modern computer parts. i was thinking of putting a C=64 inside but i would have been to complicated. anything i should think of? its going to be my project in school so i have access to pretty much every tool you can think of.
thanks in advance
52nd_state
SWEDEN
That's fine, anything I've got up for download people should feel free to use for whatever
I can't really offer any advise or tips really, mine never got past the prototype stage. A metal frame would be a good idea, would give a good solid base to build off of. Fiberglassing should work too, personally I would go with sheet plastic (or metal) just because it's mostly a square build and there would be little warpage.
I was just going to use my old Mac Mini and a small
ish LCD screen in mine but a purpose built PC might be the way to go and you'd have plenty of room for stuff inside
Bigwillie5 said:
what ur doing is really nice, you have talent and it really shows in your work. this is the type of stuff that i hope to be able to do when im older. just wondering how do you convert the 3d models into actual models? is it like through a machine or something?
Thanks
As for building physical pieces from the 3D models, it depends on what you've got access to and/or how much money you want to spend really.I've got a small 3D printer that I can use to 'print' some of the smaller models out in ABS plastic. They also have much larger versions that basically do the same thing but on a much larger scale that you can use to print things like helmets or weapons.
For my larger models I'll be doing most of them on a large CNC mill and other stuff I'll build by hand from bits of PVC pipe and such... all depends on the project
BY680 said:
what do you use to make these
You mean the 3D models? Mostly I use Solidworks but I also use a combination of Cinema4D and Modo. There are others too but I don't use them much.
Had to render this model out to check on a possible problem and figured I'd throw the renders up here.
With and without the inner helmet piece:
You can see the problem area, there are two nasty seams running along the inner helmet piece that I need to fix. It won't be a problem when making the physical version but it may look crappy in the renders Took the better part of the day just to get the ear pieces right, need better front and top views so I can get to work on the rest of it.
For those not familiar, this is what the finished helmet looks like:
It's one of the FROGS from MGS4... I've wanted to build the helmet for
ages but there aren't any decent references out there so I've had to wait until I got a PS3 to play the game on, which I have now so there's references-a-plenty!
You can find them
here if you need them, there's more coming too.
Also FYI I'm moving most of my current references and any future ones to that Flickr account above, that way I don't clutter my other account