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05-12-2007, 05:15 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: May 2006 Age: 39
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Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0 | 1/72 ep1 Nubian Here's something I made recently to supplement a project I was way behind on. It's 41.5" long, and made of fiberglass. It will be chromed next week. I used the 3dsMax mesh as a basis for making this.         |
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05-12-2007, 05:42 PM
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| Official Aceminion   Realname: Stephen Withers Join Date: May 2006 Location: Savannah, GA, USA Age: 21
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Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0   | Indeed! How exactly does a ship get 'chromed'?  |
| Lightwave, Houdini and Maya user Portfolio & Demo - www.swithdrawn.com, www.unusedbagels.com If you rearrange the letters in Vin Diesel it reveals his credo: "I End Lives." | |
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05-12-2007, 06:20 PM
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| Yeah, up another 10 cents   Realname: Nate Join Date: May 2006 Location: San Diego, CA, USA Age: 31
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Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0   | that's awesome. I didn't know the spikes at the rear of the engines where so long... |
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05-12-2007, 06:45 PM
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| SFM Obsessed  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: On average, The Atlantic technically!
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Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0 | Looks great! I see it's sponsored by Coca Cola.  |
| "Supposedly Cousteau and his cronies invented the idea of putting walkie-talkies into the helmet. But we made ours with a special rabbit ear on the top so we could pipe in some music". - Steve Zissou | |
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05-12-2007, 08:26 PM
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| SFM Oracle  Realname: Alexander Weber Join Date: May 2006 Location: Schatthausen, Germany Age: 21
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Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0 | wow... nice... |
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05-12-2007, 09:59 PM
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| SFM Guru  Realname: Eric Fritsch Join Date: May 2006 Age: 27
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Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0 | Quote:
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Alternatively, you can just polish the living crap out of certian metals to make them look like chrome. Aircraft Grade Stainless Steel for instance. For plastics, (and the includes fiberglass which is plastic reinforced with glass fibres) you have to use a process called vacuum metalizing. Its a completely different process that basically give the same results. If you really want to know more, Go here. There, my deed for the day is done, you can all consider your life enhanced, and your ignorance purged. At least for today. And now more to the current thread. That looks really, really cool. Did you make a negative mould for it and a plug? If so, would you mine sharing your secrets? I've been wanting to make car parts out of fiberglass but am having difficulty finding a good idea how. | ||
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05-12-2007, 10:17 PM
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| SFM Guru  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: NZ Age: 19
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Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0 | Wow, very nice  There's always something cool about physical models, If they're done right they just look so much better than virtual models. What's this for? |
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05-12-2007, 10:56 PM
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| SFM Nugget Realname: WhyshouldI Join Date: Jun 2006
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Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0 | wow That is really REALLY NICE!!!! I have been trying off and on to make a 3d model of this with 3dsmax and I've studied the meshes available on various websites and I've vome to the conclusion that if someone wants to make a 3d model of it, it must be made from either one shape or two planes that eventually merge into one shape. The problem with using planes is all the verts you would have to move individually and thats what gets me to give up on it everytime I try lol. If you finish this, you will have one hell of a nice ship to hang up somewhere. |
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