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mrbeaver.07:

--- Quote from: Steve on August 30, 2021, 08:08:29 pm ---Nice models!

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Yeah, I like them too

Old Codger:
I decided I needed a spiral staircase for a project. The individual steps were easy. Copy - paste - adjust settings for position and Y rotation then hand place it. The hand rail supports were even easier because no rotation was involved. The hand rail about drove me batty. I was ready to give up and make a simple straight staircase even though it would have meant altering a main parameter on the model. Then I figured it out. I stopped trying to work in 3 dimensions and dropped back to aligning everything in 2 dimensions then shifting my POV 90 degrees and working - again- in 2 dimensions. It worked out. Here is the finished result. A clockwise spiral staircase.

Old Codger:
I built a model of a ducted fan for someone but he decided to go a different direction. I still like how the spinning fan turned out. I used Photoshop elements to create a prop blur effect and applied the result as a trans channel texture. I think it worked out pretty well. I do all my textures in PSE.
The first image is the ducted fan quad copter with blades still. The 2nd image is the copter with spinning blades. The final image is just the fan assembly. As always comments are solicited.

mrbeaver.07:
You are talented in modeling tech in 3D

Old Codger:
Thanks, MrB. I have to be. Bioforms and I do not get along. I simply cannot wrap my head around them. So I have to design/make things - most often vehicles. BTW, Just before I went to sleep I figured out how to make a better railing for my spiral staircase. First thing this a.m. I tried it. I used lathing and then adjust the individual end points of the segments vertically. After that it became a matter of tweaking the rail supports. Those I could not calculate and so had to place by eye. My eyes do not work so great any more. It's been 20 months since I got my eyes checked. Darned VA keeps cancelling my eye appointments but not calling me to reschedule (they're SUPPOSED to call when they canx but it's the government . . . ) I have had 5 eye appointments cancelled so far this year. Got one coming up in a week. Right eye is going. Age-related macular degeneration. (my dominant eye for shooting, wouldn't you know) plus the left isn't getting any better with time.

Anyhow, here is my revised spiral staircase. I think I got it pretty good.

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