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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Karen, ATM thefts are very common here. Where there are diggers around, thieves are QUICK to steal them in the night and remove ATMs locally.
The yellow figure
Check this link for the chassis
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Analysis-of-Backhoe-Loader-Chassis-for-Weight-%26-FEA-Vaniya-Arvind.S.Sorthiya/0975bfff185f310594627b47d92a6873ff512a11
It is probably going to provide support for that axel
Im surprised how clean the under part is
@ritag lol I can bet they would use that.
I mean thieves use *diggers to remove ATMs from walls.
lol