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Post by Vermin King on Feb 21, 2015 8:17:21 GMT -9
This is the guy that I would really like to learn to use Gimp to texture. I generally have good success with making changes in Gimp, but my experience with textures is not going well. I have a friend who is a horse breeder. I have an obsidian horse's head in my office that she likes, so I thought that this guy would look good in a 'glassy' texture or marbleized texture with a 'wood grain' base. BTW, for such a beautiful model, it looks amazingly simple. You can find this model at www.sasatoku.co.jp/hp/present/paper_craft/eto/uma/index.htmlWhile there, click on the 'Present' link and check out the other projects offered there
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Post by cowboyleland on Feb 22, 2015 4:47:32 GMT -9
I find these elegantly simple designs so inspiring! I still think of myself as more of a gamer than a modeler so I want my models to look good with my needing to be obsessive about it.
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Post by Vermin King on Apr 26, 2015 18:04:33 GMT -9
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Post by cowboyleland on Apr 27, 2015 17:33:28 GMT -9
Looks great.
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Post by Vermin King on Apr 27, 2015 17:42:18 GMT -9
Showed it to the lady's son and he thinks it is one of the 'most elegant' pieces that I've done. I showed him the build photos, and he said that he might want to start learning this ... if he can figure out how to blow it up onto sheet metal. I didn't think to show him some of the buildings, which would be well accepted by his daughter if enlarged and done on plywood
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Post by cowboyleland on Apr 27, 2015 17:44:23 GMT -9
Sheet metal would be cool. I have some roofing aluminum in the basement . . .
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Post by eran on Apr 28, 2015 2:13:20 GMT -9
Oh man. I've got a ton of copper flashing that would make this look AWESOME.
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Post by squirmydad on Apr 28, 2015 6:17:14 GMT -9
Neat! The final build looks complicated at first but your progress pics make it look not too bad. It looks like a lot of patient curvy sweeping cuts though. To transfer the design you can use a projector hooked up to a computer or print on transparency and use an over-head projector to shine the pattern on the wall where you have your medium hanging, then just trace it. That's how I had my students transfer the pattern for the Fiddlers Green GB plane model to make it in 1/3 scale on cardboard sheets. Copper sheets would be really cool, please post pics if you do this eran.
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Post by Vermin King on Apr 28, 2015 8:21:43 GMT -9
The sweeping cuts are minimal (around the mouth and nostrils). The main thing that makes it work is the way he lined out the peak and valley folds. It would take some patience, but should be quite do-able.
Hey, Eric, that is how I did my first papercrafts. I was using papercrafts to make stage props. I printed on the overhead projector sheets and built them as big as they needed to be
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