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The Soviets assault a German city.
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Salute, one of the largest wargames events in Britain was held on Saturday at Excel London. The event attracted more than 6000 UK wargamers, military modellers and re-enactors of all ages and featured table-top wargames based on many periods in world history.
Now part of a set: www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/sets/72157616074778920/
As well as table-top wargames there were re-enactors from the Zulu War, Elizabethan period and even a Lara Croft look-a-alike. There were some real military vehicles including Fox and Ferret armoured cars and remote-control model tanks in huge 1/4 and 1/6 scale. Truly these were big boys' toys!
This is a scaled down version of an Excel spreadsheet that displays all the players in team history, and how often they appeared with one another. The vertical and horizontal axes are both sorted by the players' debut, so the starting lineup for the first game is at the top left, while Santiago Prim (the latest Crew player to make his debut) is at the bottom right.
A larger version of this cart may be posted to my Slideshare account, or to my public Box account, in the near future. Leave a comment if you're interested in receiving it.
ExCeL London, international exhibition and convention centre
eyetech expanded metal mesh facade system
What's new on the Excel Blender model front then? Well, I've updated... the front. Yes, I have quite literally made updates on the Excel front.
Working from the top down, if you look (very) closely you can see the glass part for the destination blind area is marked out; it is in fact inset from the 'metal' part by a very tiny amount because I don't think the glass and metal would be exactly flush in real life. Above are the two upper marker lights which have also been added in 3 dimensions! The whole destination blind box area is ever so slightly over-scaled and comes a few inches further down the windscreen than it does in real life, but like I've said before this is not going to be millimetre perfect because I'm not that skilled at Blender, but so long as it looks like an Excel and doesn't have any big problems then I'm pleased.
Moving down to the windscreen itself, I've added the rubber gasket that runs around its edge so now you can see its exact position, as up until now I had its shape cut with the knife tool but now I've added and extruded the rubber part it's visible in the 3d render.
For now the dash panel and headlights have remained as they were before, but the angle between the flat dash panel/lights part and the front bumper has been tweaked, so that it slopes more and the upper edge of the bumper has a smoother join to its front edge.
The final addition for now is the extra protruding lip stuck on the front of the bumper, which features on some Excels and not others. I previously said this was going to be separate object so that when the time comes I can make it a setvar in OMSI (assuming that's how it works), and that's exactly what I've done, so it's not part of the same model as the main body.
In fact neither is the registration plate area for that matter - I made it its own box so it stuck out lower down and then cut the bumper around its top edge with one of the modifiers (boolean difference I think..?)
The reg plate panel I can group in with the main body when I need to but the bumper lip should be kept as a different object. At least that's how I think it should work anyway!
So, what next? I'm actually running out of things to do on the body that require the mirroring on both sides, so I'm thinking of applying the modifier to allow me to edit each side separately and add things like the door aperture, emergency exit, fuel filler and engine grille. Of course I might run into other difficulties before I can do that since I'm sort of learning by doing, plus I think I might have made a mistake with the area I've left for the side windows, so it's all busy and fun in the world of Optare Excel modelling.
(Also, work on this is going wayyyy better than how work on the Omnidekka ever went)
ExCeL London, international exhibition and convention centre
eyetech expanded metal mesh facade system
ExCeL London, international exhibition and convention centre
eyetech expanded metal mesh facade system