Reply To: Polybook – Jake
So that was a fun little break, but – back to work! This thing’s not going to model itself, you know.
I’ve got the cylinder head finished out and duplicated – not mirrored; the two cylinder banks of the engine are offset slightly along the Y axis, so it was a matter of duplicating the head, rotating it around the engine’s Z axis, and then giving it a little nudge to get it exactly in place. I am lucky at least that the cylinder head itself IS a duplicate – I mean, in “real life”, it is literally two of the exact same part-number. So it’s not even cheating, to make a copy in this case. 😀 Linked-duplicate, of course, so any future edits will apply to both.
Also did the timing chain cover, most of the oil pan, and gaskets for all of these. It’s kind of funny – compared to the rest of the engine components the oil pan is almost jarringly plain and lacking in interest; but that’s really just how they are, unfortunately. At least on the other side there’s a drain bolt (that I still have to put in) to break up the bland.
The next components up after the oil pan are the water pump, which mounts kind of across the front of the timing cover, and the fuel pump, which mounts to that sorta house-shaped flange on the near corner of the engine block. The fuel pump on this engine is mechanical, operated by a pushrod from the camshaft. If you look closely you can see the shape on the front of the engine behind that flange, angled slightly upward toward the middle of the block (where the camshaft would be), where the passage that would accommodate that pushrod is cast into the real thing.
I’ve been taking @theluthier‘s advice about the HUMAN course and previewing the whole thing at 1.5x speed. I’m getting near the end, and as soon as I do I’ll be starting for myself – I DID get my tablet working well with Linux and Blender (although Huion not offering a settings app for Linux means some features are inaccessible like an easy way to customize the buttons, but that’s okay). I’ll be splitting my time evenly between that project and this one, so expect updates for my HUMAN project to be interspersed with updates on the car.
Digging the course, by the way. Even just watching the entire process from beginning to end in the course, the results are already feeling more accessible to me. One thing I love is how way back in his earliest courses on the face and the body, Kent is so self-conscious and uncomfortable using even one or two “technical” anatomical terms, but in this course it’s his zone now and he owns it, ha.