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Post by Vermin King on May 26, 2023 12:42:39 GMT -9
No photos just yet, but I have been building some Sci Fi stuff, Christopher Roe Northstars and Veloce Brios, Dave Winfield's Fifth Element cab and police car, the old JLH Bladerunner Bus and Commuter (actually, they are printed and in my to-do pile), and AirDave's Sentinel Limo is also in the stack. I seem to have lost AirDave's Spinner that I enlarged. I assume that when I had it out on display, it found a new home, but I do have the Cybertruck Spinner. But I want an EMT/EMS vehicle. There's the ProjectKITT Ratchet, but that isn't futuristic enough. Topo's SAR Chickenhawks are too big. glennwilliams has the civilian Bumblebee, but that isn't exactly what I was looking for. The OLD Ebbles Percheron seems big and not exactly right either. So, I am thinking of coming up with an extended Chichara from Topo or just doing a recolor of a Walrus. Another option would be to take the Brio and enlarge it, cut off the back and drop a box on the back. Another option would be to make a taller Northstar, like a Sprinter, to make an ambulance, similar to the Japanese and German ambulances. Anybody have any other ideas of a floater that could be an EMT vehicle?
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Post by Vermin King on May 26, 2023 16:39:16 GMT -9
I have decided the Air Raft, cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/thread/8640/air-raft-black-nebula , is going to be my ambulance. Now I have a decision to make. squirmydad posted versions of the vehicle, cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/post/86361/threadI could take the flat-bed version and stick a small white Onager cargo box on the back, or I can do some playing with the vehicle's geometry a bit. After I play with it next week, I will show what I mean. As far as texturing, there are so many ambulance models out there, I just need to pick which one to modify EDIT -- I won't be able to use it in the downloadable version, but if you remember the 1/48 and 1/72 Doctor Heli models, the 1/48 version has an interior! I hope to use elements in the interior of the Emergency Response Air Raft. I hope that no one will use the ERAR anagram. Sounds too much like Error. You can find that helo at online.brother.co.jp/ot/hobby/precision/airplane_01/
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Post by Vermin King on May 29, 2023 17:07:22 GMT -9
And I took this with me to the folks to work on this weekend, but my hard drive crashed. We'll find out tomorrow what can be salvaged
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Post by Vermin King on May 30, 2023 3:50:08 GMT -9
Went through all the Microsoft Repair stuff and have things kind of working ... many files are there but will not open. And my backup died. I should have gone to Cloud Backup, I guess.
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Post by Vermin King on May 31, 2023 4:50:46 GMT -9
Lesson learned.
Yes, I had an old hard drive that I was backing up to. I just assumed that it was still working. Don't assume.
If you don't back up, you should start.
If you are backing up, double check that your backups are backing up.
My computer is in limping stage as I back up to One Drive. Typing in this message will probably result in either my backup uploads stopping for ten minutes, or a blue screen of death. I better post my reply before something bad happens.
BTW ... my uploading to the cloud is over 4/5 done
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Post by Vermin King on May 31, 2023 11:49:06 GMT -9
And for some reason, OneDrive has no Air-Raft Ambulance file ... Starting over. I really wish it had gotten uploaded to the cloud. I am not sure how my changes would have looked, or if they make it look more ambulance-like, but I think it was going to be good. At least it hasn't been so long that I don't remember what I did and how I did it EDIT -- Well, that didn't take long, and I do think it appears to be an ambulance. I had planned to do more with this, but now I am just anxious to build it as-is
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Post by Vermin King on May 31, 2023 16:28:07 GMT -9
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Post by aleks on Jun 5, 2023 2:46:24 GMT -9
very nice!
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 5, 2023 4:18:21 GMT -9
I am kicking myself, though. I didn't save the pre-textured extended roof version. I am just not as smooth in this as I used to be
The neighbor kids saw this and wanted to see the ambulance. At least they recognized what it was supposed to be
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 6, 2023 4:47:36 GMT -9
I'm a bit confused. In a lot of Sci Fi, there is a theme of Haves and Have Nots. The Haves usually live at the pinnacle of luxury, while the Have Nots live in slums, if they are lucky, hoping that they aren't victims of neighborhood crime or get harvested for the Haves. In Fantasy, we have palaces and castles, along with the hovels. Why is there so little Elite terrain for Sci Fi? EDIT -- First AirDave's vehicles Collection for this theme thus far
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Post by ignatious on Jun 6, 2023 11:52:49 GMT -9
where did I miss the ups van on treads?
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Post by aleks on Jun 6, 2023 22:49:42 GMT -9
Question? Do you upscaled AirDave models? Amount?
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 7, 2023 10:37:15 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 7, 2023 10:43:07 GMT -9
Question? Do you upscaled AirDave models? Amount? Generally speaking, I move the parts around on the page to where I can maximize it to fit a Letter-sized page. Taxi was 140% 5th Element Police was 140% Spinner was 112% Sentinel 400 was 130% I just maximize part density and see how much I can go
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 8, 2023 8:45:40 GMT -9
Did a green Veloce Brio done and was working on squirmydad's recolor of the Jackrabbit. Been trying to get my head around how I used to do roofs, so that I can do a series of roofs for topo's IKubes. It just isn't clicking well. Also decided to do a recolor on Tommygun's big building. I'll probably do two of them. First, a version of the Leonardo Glass Cube Second based off The Broad And I am also going to do a group build of ignatious's recolor and enlargement of Jan Rukr's Coral Explorer PT-3
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 21, 2023 18:40:43 GMT -9
Well, finished the Coral Explorer PT-3, cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/thread/11283/jan-rukrs-coral-explorer-shuttlesquirmydad's recolor of the Ebbles Jackrabbit is seen in a couple photos in that thread. I have two roofs done for gothique's Carnevale IKubes Started work on doing a recolor of Tommygun's Big Building to be reminiscent of the Leonardo Glass Cube, but keep getting side-tracked looking for other modernistic buildings. The problem with most of them is that they were so busy being 'innovative', they forgot to be 'inviting'. Okay, some of them have totally unusable space under the elevated buildings. I imagine that some folks might want to leave their vagrant camp and live under there. Seems to me that you need a purpose for creating a space like that. I keep seeing photos of a new museum in Turkey. Buildings look great, but they are surrounded by barren plazas and a boatload of steps everywhere. I assume there is no Turkish version of our Americans with Disabilities Act. Give me grass and trees, flowers and bushes and buildings that serve a purpose other than being an experiment Enough ranting. I actually started things out with a recolor of the Big Concrete Building, brightening the concrete and enhancing everything else. I think it needs solar panels on the roof still
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Post by gothique on Jun 23, 2023 7:18:03 GMT -9
These Ikubes, not my design but something I am trying to fit into my growing Carnevale collection
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 28, 2023 4:52:49 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 28, 2023 15:08:07 GMT -9
A tad more difficult for the Leonardo Cube recolor than I first imagined, but not moving too badly This is not going to be anywhere near an exact model of the building (taller and narrower), and no downstairs, but I think it will make a very attractive building for an upscale area. The top and bottom 'strips' had a major variation in color, and I attempted to 'balance' the color of the glass from end to end, but it looked worse, so I discarded that. In starting the West wall, I found that keeping the 'strips' even going around corners is a little more tedious than I expected. Haven't decided whether to make optional white boxes for the roof hvac units. Oh, yeah, this is twice I have mentioned the downstairs. When you look at the satellite view, you will see a couple gray areas. Those are patios outside the downstairs windows
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 1, 2023 15:59:27 GMT -9
Well, I unsuccessfully tried to turn one of my dune buggies into an air buggy, so I decided to build another one of the Kemono Friends. I built Serval the other day and today I did Arai-san, the Raccoon Gal I was trying to decide on whether I wanted to do another Friend, probably one of the owls, or Lucky Beast or Bag, but then I decided to go back to Sci Fi and build something that I don't see around much. I was looking at Michael the Haggard's Albion Shuttle and Captain's Gig, both of which I thought I ought to recolor. The shuttle needs to be enlarged. Then I remembered the Gnat Vtol from Reviresco, web.archive.org/web/20031211030722/http://www.tin-soldier.com/paper/corridor.htmThe Gnat will be my next project. It's a wee bit smallish, but until I built it, I didn't know if it would be worth a whole lot of effort
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 4, 2023 7:34:09 GMT -9
In a floor plan for the Leonardo Glass Cube that I saw (but unfortunately did not save), it indicated the main entrance on the North wall and an emergency exit on the South. Nothing about the exit on the West, so I was confused about the different faces. But while I was sorting this out, I found that the phrase 'Hyper-natural' was used to describe the exterior and interior decoration. In my brain I just substitute 'swoopy' for 'hyper-natural'. But I really like this style. The same company that designed the Cube, did the Kaffee Partners headquarters in 'hyper-natural' style I think I would like an office that looked out onto that covered terrace. Another thing to like about these is that one could design traditional rectangular building in cardstock, but totally give them a new vibrancy with the terrace levels in between the floors EDIT -- The images were showing when I posted this, but not now. Hmmm
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 5, 2023 10:05:14 GMT -9
Back to the Gnat. According to the template notes, the original design was by Jim Neal, redrawn and colored by John McEwan of Reviresco, with a copyright of 2001. On the link above, it lists it as being 1/64, but is listed as 1/72 on the actual download page, but as I have mentioned elsewhere, scale on fictitious things is a little wibbly-wobbly (yes, I am looking forward to the return of Doctor Who). I think it will be fine, if considered as a one-man fighter. When I was looking it over, I was thinking tabs were odd in some places and instructions weak. I also don't understand why two of the landing gear struts are wrapped toothpicks and two are just toothpicks that you just need to pick a color and paint. I think I am just going to do all four as black toothpicks. The toothpicks are supposed to be 1.2 inches long. I wish there was a guide on the template for cutting instead of needing to find an English ruler that is decimal or just guessing at something less than 1 1/4 inches. I'm getting ready to build the engines and engine mounts. This stage reminded me of when I was talking about how the Kei-designed AH-1S anti-tank helicopter would convert well into a SciFi vehicle, and you wouldn't have to deal with saggy blades over time
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 5, 2023 16:43:07 GMT -9
The Gnat continues. Parts 10 are the toothpick wraps, but it looks like you glue your toothpick along the diagonal line then line up the points to form a triangle spacer, gluing the triangles until they secure the toothpicks. So, the triangles are structural. Part 11 goes under the cabin to be the front landing gear. Parts 12 and 13 are the pads, but they need coloring for the bottom. That means the other toothpicks to hold the rear landing gears in position will need to be colored and will not match the wrapped ones. I think I am going to make them black and also paint the wrapped toothpicks black to match. I do not have painting skills to get the unwrapped picks to match the camo of the rear ones. Hmmm
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 6, 2023 7:57:55 GMT -9
Well, parts 10 are not square, so putting the toothpick on the line doesn't work. The points of the triangles won't match, yet if you match the points, you have a lot of white showing. Half tempted to just create my own landing gear, especially since I don't like the feet anyway. Any ideas? I might just do a slap-dash throw-together and say 'lesson learned'
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 8, 2023 16:38:47 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 11, 2023 15:12:58 GMT -9
When I was going through files for 'obscure' Sci Fi vehicles, I found this guy in my OBS file. I don't know if he did a Pay What You Want on this or what, but I have the Taxi by itself. I think it is part of the eight-variants for $1 at www.drivethrurpg.com/product/100152/RGP011--SciFi-Scenics--Set-1--Hover-Taxi-and-Hover-Car?filters=0_2220_0_0_0There are some tabs issues that make it a more difficult build than it should be, and better yet would be to have a main body with a separate nose and tail, but it is a quick build that looks pretty good. I really wish the final closures were on the bottom instead of the top
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 31, 2023 11:00:25 GMT -9
So, still on the sci fi kick, but besides Dystopian Future World, I also have been contemplating Transition World. Transition World is a location that was being colonized by two opposing groups, and they got into fisticuffs, so militaries were called in and small fortifications established. These were expanded to more permanent and defensible facilities. Now comes the questionable peace. Besides state-of-the-art military facilities being built, a fortifiable city is being established. So I am planning on doing a mixture of colony buildings Arsenal Green Line for first defenses With any military base, regardless of size, there is always a civilian support contingent living and working in questionable housing. Think glennwilliams's Shantytown and Dave's Offworld Habitat No. 3. More permanent military will have elements from several sources, transitioning to Christopher Roe's Firebase Maginot While Slagtown II Box City is under construction. Actually Maginot is in construction-mode, too. Under Construction. That is the part that has spurred my interest. Getting from Point A through the other Points to Point D for Done. Original Colony buildings are pre-fabs that require little construction. Arsenal, I think, is a combination of pre-fab and in-situ build. Support Village is throw-together Maginot has to have the solidity of built in-place Slagtown II by definition is pre-fab. Other than the Samsara Add-Ons, ground prep either needs to be done with conventional construction equipment, or something like DarekPages's Ratte and Bulldozer, or something I am unaware of. Placing of pre-fabs requires VTOL or cranes to place the units. I am leaning towards cranes. Slagtown Junkyard has a crane. Volker from Streetpaper has some cranes and lifters. Or ... the idea I am leaning towards is a re-work of the 1963 Rostock Hafenkran, for which I don't remember where I acquired it. It can be placed on temporary rails to deliver the boxes quickly and efficiently in straight lines. I'll probably never get it all put together, but that doesn't keep me from building the elements
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 4, 2023 14:08:58 GMT -9
And with Papercuts! - 2024 upon us, this will have to be set aside. I think I can get some Post Apocalyptic vehicles to the finish line before the end of the month for models and can probably finish the Leonardo Cube kitbash of Tommygun's Big Building done. I had what I thought was a good idea for another model, but there is no way it can be finished in time. Why is it that time always is the biggest stumbling block?
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Post by gothique on Aug 5, 2023 5:38:03 GMT -9
Slagtown Salvage by Finger and Toe Models has loads of useful construction items, including two different cranes (if Glenn no longer has those on file, I may be able to help). Slum City is great for unfinished buildings.
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 5, 2023 6:45:25 GMT -9
I believe it is Slagtown Junkyard that has the Tower Crane. Industrial Sector has the Overhead Crane. If there are others, please let me know.
I'm still leaning towards the Hafenkran, though. If you lay the rails in what will become the street, you can stack the boxes on both sides of the street. I don't believe I have seen any of the trucks and trailers from Slagtown built. I can just picture lines of them ready to be off-loaded.
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