Marathon Day 27 R...
The last day of the marathon! Some great updates today. I filled out the Waffle House today and came to this design: Then while discussing the design ...
Marathon Day 26 R...
For now I'm onto another model. I'm waiting for some reference material before I finish up the Flying Wing. This is Jimmy Chan's neighbor - out ...
Marathon Day 25 R...
I've been really busy lately, and I should have moved on from this model already. Some little things I worked on today: Ramp transition Rigging control handles ...
Marathon Day 23 R...
I didn't get much time to work on things today but I did get a lot done. From the yesterday: Build out the connection points to the ...
Marathon Day 22 R...
Been adding in the details that bring out the believability in the design of the landing gear. Almost done. Main landing gear to do list: Build out ...
Marathon Day 21 R...
I missed a day due to being on the road, in the air, and out of town. Huge bummer to have a gap in this ...
Marathon Day 20 R...
I'm on the road and working on my portable computer. I spent some time on the landing gear.
Marathon Day 19 R...
I spent most of the morning really digging into aircraft landing gear kinematics. Oh boy what fun! No seriously, it was fun. So I finally ...
Marathon Day 18 R...
Very light day today. - Bored out intake scoop. - Added counter rotating propellers, much like the Northrop XB-35.
Marathon Day 17 R...
Added pipes and shaped out a new intake system for the supercharger. It's more like the old school plane scoops with a hint of a ...
I just had to share ...
I've been watching this show, America at a Crossroads on PBS, and one of the documentaries had this great motion graphic animated short in it. ...
Marathon Day 16 R...
I put in some work on the supercharger and intake this morning. The supercharger has that funny car look, and might not match with the ...
Marathon Day 15 R...
Today I worked on blocking out the cockpit windows for the flying wing. Then I started on building the Allison 1720 power plant. This engine ...
Marathon Day 14 R...
So after yesterday's trash bin of a post, we come to marathon day 14 and a newly redone flying wing model. [youtube]QO_D3ltOilk[/youtube] Or Click Here I'm liking how ...
Marathon Day 13 R...
Okay did some research and modeling today. The research gave me some ideas about what I want to do with with the engines, and the ...
Marathon Day 12 R...
I'm going off on a new model right now. It might look like I'm all over the place but there's a plan - really, there ...
Marathon Day 11 R...
Worked on the head today. I like the teeth, and some of the overall shapes. It needs to look a little meaner though. I'm going ...
Marathon Day 10 R...
This morning I worked on some pipes for, what I'm now calling, the Hunter model. As I designed them and was imagining a motorcycle by ...
I love it when CEO&#...
... or more precisely the former CEO of Chrysler. Lee Iacocca on the first page of his new book, Where Have All The Leaders Gone? gets ...
Marathon Day 9 ̵...
The video I posted yesterday shows how I block out models in Sketchup. Today I further refined the legs. Not sure if the weighting is ...
Marathon Day 8 ̵...
I'm trying out several screen capture programs; Captivate and Camtasia. Captivate records well enough (slows down Sketchup a bit), and plays them back, but when ...
SketchUp and Comics...
As it turns out some comic creators are using SketchUp! Joe Quesada, Editor in Chief at Marvel, uses SU every now and again to create ...
Marathon Day 7 ̵...
Slow day today. I had plenty of other work to do. But here are some notes that I wrote about yesterday's posing test. Some of ...
Marathon Day 5 ̵...
Lots of work on the Bull. The Bull is related to this massive machine known as the Crawler. It's the same vehicle that brings the ...
Marathon Day 4 ̵...
Worked on the bull early this morning at 7am, cleaning up some things, and started the feet. But I'm not posting about that here. I had ...
Day 3 – Crazy...
It was a crazy day today. Spent a lot of it reinstalling drivers and booting and rebooting my machine to fix some odd crashes. Ugh. Plus, ...
Marathon Day 2 ̵...
Took a break from organic characters to follow a recent sketch inspiration. This is a bull. He might look cute, but he's pretty dangerous as ...
Fuel & Fire Apr...
Okay, so today marks the start of a marathon. Why a marathon? Well, I just want to get my hands dirty and post some new art. ...
