By tetsujin on 2008-05-27 in Models | 0 Comments
Tags: 1:100 Zaku Kai, Blender
I recently picked up the book The Essential Blender and have found it very helpful in learning more about the Blender application. With the animation chapter as my guide I produced a simple animation of my Zaku Kai mesh – the robot itself is standing still but the camera spins around it… I know it […]
By tetsujin on 2008-05-11 in Models | 0 Comments
Tags: 1:100 Zaku Kai, shoulder armor construction
Since doing the basic form for the shoulder armor I’ve spent a bit of time refining the two parts – matching them relative to each other, correcting some minor mistakes I made in the templates, etc. In the mean time I’ve also begun work on the spike for the shoulder armor – I’ll be building […]
By tetsujin on 2008-05-08 in Models | 0 Comments
Tags: 1:100 Zaku Kai, shoulder armor construction
I haven’t been getting enough done on this project lately, so I started work on a new part: the shoulder armor for the left arm. I started by using the Blender model to create five cross-sections of the part – I then transferred these cross-sections to styrene, cut them out and assembled them, and filled […]