Kwstas,

Wow, that's looking good! How much work have you done in Sketchup?

I know it's sort of scary to post your work here for the first time, so kudos for taking that first step.

You'll find the people here are a fantastic source of information, and are more than willing to provide help and advice whenever you need it. I know that when I started out I wouldn't have made it very far without their willingness to answer my many, many questions.

And as far as your "horrible" renders, I see nothing to apologize for. At least you can render. It's something I've never been able to do, gave up on a long time ago. So don't beat yourself up, just keep at it.

I hope you will become a regular here on the forums, and am looking forward to seeing more of your work.

Well done!

Steve

@kwstas said:

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Dear Hellnbak
I am very impressed with your model vw thing, I love it.
I'm a big fan of this car and my son and I have two vw things in real life.
I also made a vw thing model in 3d, and I have spent many hours doing my model.
I would love you to contact me. I am very interested.
I can show my 3d model.
please write to kwstas in gmail.
Kwstas

Kwstas,

Thanks.
Boy, I hadn't thought about this thread for a while.
I don't know from gmail, I sent you a private message.
I'm sure everyone here would love to see your Thing model, why not post some pictures here?

Steve

@majid said:

These are really superb!

Thanks Majid

@mike amos said:

Steve has an amazing talent, every model is stunning in attention to detail and care in its creation.

Mike, thanks for the kind words, much appreciated

@richard said:

You're doing some pretty funky fun stuff mate!

Yeah, my stuff can be pretty funky sometimes

I think it's great that you are posting this information. I bought your book a while back, and have delved into it on and off. I have very little hope that I will be able to accomplish anything worthwhile as far as rendering any of my models, but that's not due to any shortcoming of your wonderful efforts. Strictly my own shortcomings.
But hey, I keep trying.
Thanks again for passing along all this information.

Alright, someone actually modeling a car! (I want to put a smilie here, but of course the one I want to use has been unceremoniously done away with, along with all the other good ones everybody actually liked to use)

@ric323 said:

I was going to ask your permission to repost some of your material from here

Feel free to repost any of my stuff. This great movie needs a dedicated site.

Richard,

Nice website. I do have some interesting stuff about the movie I came across when researching the Hannibal 8, I'll try to post some of it to your site.

Steve

Probably something that very few people want to hear, but I really love your wrinkles and sags

Very nice work

@jql said:

What a nice display of fair play! Cheers Kathryn!

I very much agree. Well done, well said, Kathryn!

Here's a good reference photo (you'll have to work around the bullet holes)

If there is some way it could be done I think this is a great idea. Anything that makes information more readily available to those looking for it can only be good.

@mike amos said:

Trying to find something with fewer arguments with sketchup, Not so simple and there are area's that require compromise which I am still adjusting to. The Camel is going to have a fair few of these compromises.

Apparently jpeg and png are invalid files types. Can someone tell me when that happened please?

Mike,

Not sure what you are saying here.

As far as jpeg and png being invalid file types, do you mean when importing them as textures? If so, I've found that if I have altered them in some way in a graphics program, then saved them and then tried to import them as a texture, it will give me that error msg if the image is still open in the graphics pgm.

Steve

Much appreciated, Ken.

@ric323 said:

@hellnbak said:

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Was going to include a bunch of background stuff but that seems to bore some people. I might include some stuff later on, as the model progresses.

+1 for more background!

Thanks Richard. Yeah, I will include some background stuff eventually. Lots of good info to pass along.

You're really using a pre-6 version of SU? Just curious as to why.

Anyhow, been playing around with this, thought I would post a few photos.

First, the robot on her "chair".

Difficult in the respect that few shots show it, and of those that do the vast majority of them are from a distance and show very little useable detail.
An interesting fact -- The seat of the chair was set at angle because the "suit" did not allow Ms Helm to sit all the way down. But even with that an apparatus had to be rigged so that someone pulling on a lever behind the chair slowly tilted the seat forward until she could stand on her own.

Also took a stab at Maria on the lab table, just prior to her 'essence' being transferred to the robot

Still a lot to do, about 600 miles of cable and wiring to add, a lot of electronic doo-dads, this, that and 'tother. Gonna try to make the face look like Brigitte Helm, now that should be fun.

Both of these scenes proved very frustraing because of SU's inability to work realistically with 'glass' or transparent surfaces. Go below a certain amount of transparency and no shadows are cast or received, along with other problems. Drove me nuts, finally just gave up.

So much to do, so little time.

so do you actually have these kits?

Welcome to the forums!

I know that posting your work for the first time can be intimidating, but I don't think you have anything to worry about.

Very nice work, well modeled and nicely presented

Very nice work.

Although I have never understood why anyone would put a big picture of a can of soup on their wall

Give me a nice Ansel Adams any day!

Very impressive work!

Thanks for the replies.

I have downloaded and installed the plugin. I have also checked out some of the documentation, manual, videos, etc. Looks like another one well beyond my very limited capabilities

Oh well.

It was McAfee Web Advisor that flagged the download. I don't know about flagging false positives, I just installed it a few weeks ago. Normally I avoid anything to do with McAfee but decided to give this one a try.

I am very cautious about what I download, your website name didn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling

Just purchased this plugin (on the off-chance that I may actually understand and be able to use it ), BUT...

when I went to download it I got the following warning

evilsoftwareempire.com??????

I haven't downloaded it yet, am understandably reluctant to do so until I hear that it is indeed safe.

Perfect in every detail!

So who won the bet, and just how long did it take you to create this amazing model?