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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yes, subsurf
[Q] Isn't adding things like bolts and washers and subsurf modifier too early for 2nd blockout stage?
Nice
yeah, I should rather use subsurf
[Q] would a checker board manual decimate work to drop the resolution on that bar?
There's no fooling the master
Dang Kent went into edit mode in all the pieces it seems
The axels look sick
That is a lot of work and typing.
me axles were mainly eyeballing