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[uncle twist]

AHHH Ok, thanks for that factoid, it must be very cool to have that kind of inside relationship with him. I looked at the thread you posted, I vaguely recall it, to bad all that happened. I hope things have gotten better with your son. Doing a little research, I found this..>>>.......https://www.flyinggiants.com/forums/showthread.php?t=280133........ The rolling circle starting at @ the 7:15 mark in the vid. is nothing less than insane, to say Jase is an extremely good pilot would be a gross understatment. Seeing him stop an insane roll in perfectly level or inverted flight is also pretty freakin` cool.. ?

 

[abaser]

Decided to add some rib bay swag tonight. That led to creating a set of bones. This will hopefully come in handy with an idea I have on having a little translucency through the covering. RF doesn't render that effect, so I'm going to try to force it by cheating a little on transparency.

 

[uncle twist]

Great shots Andy, really lovin` the fourth one, Great job on the "bones"....

 

[technoid]

Very nice Andy those look great.

 

[Bristow737]

Amazing job !

 

[abaser]

No progress pics today. Decided to start mapping what I’ve got and get an idea where I’m at for the final 1x1. There’s going to be a lot of parts on this one to lay out for sure.

 

[abaser]

Got a little mapping done tonight. Still have to tweak the fuselage bottom to eliminate the stretching. Not much to show, but it's a start at least.

 

[uncle twist]

Loving the pics Andy, Any progress....no matter how much.....is progress,..I`m going through the same thing with this CS I`m doing, some of the graphics take more time than others, I just finished the "Sky Dynamics" logo today, after three days (on & off) of working on it. here`s a pic.

 

[Bristow737]

Loving the pics Andy, Any progress....no matter how much.....is progress,..I`m going through the same thing with this CS I`m doing, some of the graphics take more time than others, I just finished the "Sky Dynamics" logo today, after three days (on & off) of working on it. here`s a pic.

I like it ! Looks great!

 

[Boof69]

Looks so good andy. Lovin' it

 

[abaser]

Thanks for the kind words. I’ll probably spend a couple days on mapping everything I’ve got so far and doing a rough CS for it just for a change of pace and to see how things look overall. I’m in no way near through with the modeling, just looking for a change. That being said, anyone know if a good resource for high res anodized aluminum textures? I’ve found a few, but they’ve either got glare on them from lights, or a watermark all over it to make it useless.

 

[Boof69]

You may have a hard time finding that since a texture like that would only make sense with reflections over a brushed texture. Instead you may want to use a aluminium brushed texture then to a translucent layer above that and let the spec map add the reflections.

 

[abaser]

So my weekend didn’t quite go as planned, and I didn’t get near as much time for modeling as I’d hoped for, but I do have most of the base model mapped and ready for scaling and such. This morning I went back to work on fine tuning the pilot to have a much better edge flow and make it easier to map. It ended up with a much cleaner look in my opinion. I’ll post pictures when I can. Kind of got carried away and played a little too long so I didn’t have time to post them before leaving for work.

 

[technoid]

Yeah eating will win out over modeling that's for sure. <grin>

 

[abaser]

Eating....... you’re funny.? More like my daughters softball team got cleared for practice for the first time since fall (he travel team, HS team was cancelled) and that’s a 2 hour drive one way. Add a 4 hour practice in between drives and that’s 8 hours. Then her pig escaped and went to visit the neighbors down the road a 1/2 mile away. Wrestled that thing for almost 2 hours. In the meantime, I threw my back out so I was done for the day.

Sunday started off with a one hour drive to pitching lessons (once again for my daughter), 1 1/2 hours there, then an hour home. Get home and eat only to have to build a kitchen table for a customer. Knocked that out around 10:30 that night so once again I was done physically but did do a little while I wound down from the day.

So, long story short (May be too late for that), I might’ve eaten once or twice this weekend.

 

[asj5547]

Nice Table.

 

[abaser]

Thanks. Not a fan of it all being stained, but I wasn’t paying for it either. This is the one I built for myself.

 

[uncle twist]

Nice Tables Andy, I as well like the one you built for yourself better, it`s nice to have a little contrast.

 

[asj5547]

Nice carpentry

 

[abaser]

Nice carpentry

Thanks.