My kids absolutely love "diggers" and as a 3D modeler I certainly appreciate them too. All the complex shapes, hard edges, bolts, hydraulics, tire treads, etc. It's a modelers playground and labyrinth rolled into one.
I'm going to start building a digger - a Caterpillar 434E specifically - as accurately and detailed as I can. The name of the game here is organization, perseverance, and efficiency because most of the shapes are not difficult to build. There's just. so. many. of. them. Which gave me an idea...
Why don't we build this thing together? For those interested in following the project, I'm hoping at least a few will participate by modeling certain pieces of the backhoe themselves to be submitted to me for review and incorporation into the final model.
Check out the Collaboration Forum thread for more info!
| Modeling Heavy Equipment: Backhoe (Part 2) | Fundamentals of 3D Mesh Modeling in Blender |
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| Modeling a Motorcycle | Modeling a Post Apocalyptic Vehicle |
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thanks Peter and Omar
[Q] in the detailing phase, will you use subsurf or the auto smooth sharp trick?
[Q] @thelutheir will this help for the cab part? Its has a little more info than your original. http://s7d2.scene7.com/is/content/Caterpillar/C740874
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it probably tappersand yea trust the photos, the manual pic is just schematic
That rebel vert
Put it inside the question tag and it will get his attention
Nah Karen, just that it is hard to teach, stream and pay attention to the chat
I'm invisible to Kent lol...oh well
@ritag hahahahhaaaa... now I cannot unsee those... thanks!
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