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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Peter, check out too Thang010146 and King Mechanical. Both channels are highly prolific in their outputs of videos on mechanism.
I like how the reference images look like they are surrounding and intimidating the mesh
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[Q] When you align the side of ref, how do you know what is the center (ie not to make it look stretched length wise)?
F for Kent's old monitor
HI silent!
Hi Peter!
Hi
silentheart00!
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Haha yeah Omar
A bit late, but I happened to remember!