Little update,... Just a few more mech related items to add:

Mechs in Snow,... Modo & Photoshop CS5

I'm loving my Large Wacom Tablet! It makes drawing in Photoshop a breeze.

For my general drawing and concept design I've been using SketchBook Pro. It's powerful and only cost $60 bucks. Check out the Free Trial.

I've also been working on some more realistic mech parts. My goal is to eventually rig and animate some mechs, but rigging this many moving parts is currently beyond my skills. In the meantime, I'm tweaking the models in order to make the physically work.

I kind of fell back on my knowledge of helicopter powertrain systems in order to add to the realism of the rigs. I'm going to have to adjust the lenth of the hydraulics and possibly the size and location of the mounts to allow for full range of motion,... 

More to follow,...

more Mining Bot

A bit of PS post,... just something quick.

I really need to refine this model. There are a ton of inaccurate technical details that are making my OCD act up! ;)

I guess I'll add a bit more for this mining robot. Here's how it eveolved.

First,... the concept.

Then, the proxy model.

 

 

Then,.. some details.
















I'll add more detailed pics soon,....

perhaps a few more,...

...ships

...mining robot

Hello abandonded blog! here's a few golden oldies.

 

 

 

 

I need to add some new stuff,... maybe fairly soon?

Spaceship- Destroyer

Those who know me well are probably wondering where the hell the spaceships are! ...well,.. here's one of my own design. Don't mind the textures,.. I was just screwing around with them mostly.

Sci-Fi Armored Personnel Carrier

here is an APC I came up a while back. Some of the parts,.. like the turret are only proxys (place holders) One of these days,.. I'll finish this model!

Bell 406/407 Swashplate

Here is a Bell 406/407 Swashplate I did about a year ago. This is much better than the Blackhawk rotor head for two reasons: 1,) I had learned more of Modo (2.) I had an old OH-58D Tech Manual on PDF from when I worked at Ft. Hood. So, I used Photoshop to get the orthographic projections from the book, and used them as backdrops to model from.

Outer Ring- as seen from Modo

Another view of the outer ring. Added Outer Cap and hardware,.. and bearings.

Inner Ring

Support Assembly.

This was probably the most difficult part I had ever modelled at the time.

This took me several hours to get right,.. and there are some minor errors,.. but only a few people out there would ever spot them! :D

Complete Assembly

Not too shabby,.. it's still missing alot. Hardware mostly.

Exploded view! 

UH-60 Blackhawk Rotorhead

 Here's a screenshot of the 3D program I use. It's called Modo 501

I should note. I didn't use any backdrop pictures to model this! I basically did it from memory, then I went back and found some pictures and used those to correct the size proportions.

This was a pretty early effort. I still learning to use this program.

It's far from perfect, but concidering this was my first attempt at Hard Surface Modelling,.. I'd say it came out ok.

Now that I've gained some skill, I should go back and re-do this model.

 I can see that the spindles are too small and the bifilar is too big,.. but hey,.. like I said, I didn't use any orthographic references.

Can you spot the problem with the blades? They are not all facing the right direction. LOL. DOH! I was just learning how to use the mirror tool.

No textures.