Thanks to my kids I've become quite fond of "diggers" over the past couple years. 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 1) | Modeling Heavy Equipment: Backhoe (Part 3) |
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| Modeling a Motorcycle | Modeling a Post Apocalyptic Vehicle |
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Spikey is a walking Blender encyclopedia 😉. I got many tips from him, thanks!
It works, it's just finicky
I'm thinking the lug nuts need the Spikey spikes
[Q] array is alway does not work properly
Gotta love arraying <3 elegant solution, well played !
Yeah, agreed. We're going to be expecting more spikes on the next go
Spikey it's unforgivable you didn't put Spikes on your wheels
thanks
I don't think bolts and nuts and washers are a bad thing at this stage. But subsurf is too much at this stage.