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Wow, that Leatherman Charge looks like a nice one. I have the Victorinox Swisstool, and it is very hard to get the individual tools out without ripping off your fingernails. Other than that, though, it makes a very good hammer.

Hmmm... I have a 5$ sort-of-swiss-knife which is very simple and is mainly a foldable pair of scissors with knife and some other less useful utilities at the "handles". Low quality, but works pretty well. Had it for more than a year now and still hasn't failed yet.
Never heard of Leatherman, but I strongly recall victorinox. I used to break my nails on those too .

Sewage Treatment Worm wrote:

But I prefer "Infection Girl".

What does it mean? No chance fpor my dictionary to make some sense out of it...

Hehe, I tried to model an old Austin once...

http://www.ak3dgfx.com/minitut/minitut.html
This is an old (but still worth looking at) tutorial by a famous Truespace User Andy Kay* - he now uses C4D but still has an
open mind for other Truespace Users and is very helpful.

I would like to do something similar (or better?) in AOI once the reference images have been implemented (I can hear some people roar).
- Just because i´m no artist and keeping the scale is to hard for me without reference.

Harald

BTW:
If i would call my beloved better half "pumpkin" or "muffin"  she might think that something´s wrong with her shape...



* Andy is also a mod in the speed modeling challenges @ threedy.com

Last edited by Vidiot (November 11, 2005, 2:44 am)

Sewage Treatment Worm wrote:

One of the first depictions of a "car"-crash:
http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/cars/cugnot.jpg

Even the wheels will be fun to model and hard to texture (aged wood and so on).
Those things are good to model even without precise knowledge of the scale.
I´m just guessing - not that I´ve tried it so far.

That really could be a nice Splashscreen for AOI!

Harald

Well - Richard, let´s see what we can do about that.
Collaboration sounds promising.

We have to splitting the 3wheeler in the main parts and fit it together then?
Be warned: I´m building a house right now - so my modeling time is eventually = my lunch time at the office
That means it could take a while.

It´s now 24:00 (midnight) around here , - maybe I have some more time on sunday evening.
Some thought: Degree of detail, maybe just a clay model first (no textures), 

The crash reminds me on the first car accidents where poeple where hurt or brougth to death.
In those days the cars were slower than 10 km/h... much slower than carriage with horses.

Some more pics:
http://images.google.de/images?client=f … amp;tab=wi

Harald


EDIT: One of the best sites:
http://pboursin.club.fr/cugnot.htm

Last edited by Vidiot (November 12, 2005, 5:16 pm)

Vidiot wrote:

Well - Richard, let´s see what we can do about that.
Collaboration sounds promising.

We have to splitting the 3wheeler in the main parts and fit it together then?
Be warned: I´m building a house right now - so my modeling time is eventually = my lunch time at the office
That means it could take a while.

It´s now 24:00 (midnight) around here , - maybe I have some more time on sunday evening.
Some thought: Degree of detail, maybe just a clay model first (no textures), 

The crash reminds me on the first car accidents where poeple where hurt or brougth to death.
In those days the cars were slower than 10 km/h... much slower than carriage with horses.

Some more pics:
http://images.google.de/images?client=f … amp;tab=wi

Harald

EDIT: One of the best sites:
http://pboursin.club.fr/cugnot.htm

Clearly there are lots of great sites and reference images to work with, even including some internal schematics!

I think a casual, leisurely collaboration as time permits would be perfectly fine, and a fun challenge. What do you guys think?
We could even put it on our resumes and use it for our portfolios. Very impressive. Well why not?
Eventually, we could even re-create the crash... and sell it to some museums.