Reply To: Polybook – Jake
So that’s the frame completed!
While this component looks incredibly complex, overall as a model it was not. The only really challenging part was that wide crossmember in the front (left-most side in this image) – with all kinds of important curves, angles, and intersecting plane-changes, it took a couple of failed tries and a “eureka” moment before I could finally nail that shape down correctly. After that, all of the remaining parts were quite simple to edge-model; there were just so many of them that it took a while to do them all. Most of the small tabby-dealies along the sides with the bolt-holes in them are single-sided meshes with a Solidify modifier; but a few bits and bobs didn’t play nice with Blender’s solidify math so I decided to give those parts thickness myself and exclude them from the modifier with a vertex group.
So yeah – on average, time-consuming but not too hard. There are certainly far more challenging components waiting for me yet in this project.
With the frame done, it’s time to move on to the next set of parts that it makes logical sense to me to work on. I hate to leave you all in SUSPENSE, but…..yes fine, the suspension comes next. And oh yeah, I’m going to have lots of pun with this project. You’ve been warned.