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!
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Matthew, same happened at my sister's workplace. Lot of employees had joined together in buying the tickets with numbers chosen by a mathematican. When they won, one such employee who did not join protested and was falsely claiming a share of a lottery win.
agreed Jake, everyone wants some of that free stuff
There's no way Joey could handle a lottery win
There was this one dude some time ago who kept trolling, what was the user name?
or most do, they don't know how to budget all that
yea
jakeblended they all go broke
sshanr let's try to stay on topic a bit better. A lot of your questions are coming across as trolling.
Adding a whole new meaning to “so no one told life was gonna be this way”
I think I'd rather win a mid-sized lottery. I read this article about what often tends to happen to winners of the biggest hundreds-of-millions prizes and....it's very often not happy.