CaptMac: Wow that's some beautiful woodwork there!!! 

And maybe I should put some of my stuff on Ebay. I'm not a great modeler but I modestly believe I can turn out a better model than that. 

Bakster: Well guess Duke needed some shades when he's diving out of the sun! 

Gamera

Bakster: Well guess Duke needed some shades when he's diving out of the sun! 

If you guys don't mind to get back to the ape theme may I bring up what's probably the worst giant ape movie ever- A*P*E! It was a low-budget (very, very low) joint US / South Korean production from the late '70s intended to cash in on the '70s official Kong remake.

Plus since 'Jaws' was made a year earlier they had the ape wrestle a giant shark by having the stunt guy in the costume swing around a dead shark:

The gorilla costume was so cheap when the stunt guy in the costume raised his arms you could see his tee-shirt though holes in the armpits.

And he stepped over a toy plastic cow:

A pair of giant A*P*E legs and feet were made so the Korean extras could run past them. Apparenty no one told the extras they were supposed to act scared and not the laugh and giggle while doing this.

The climax of sheer goofiness happens when the South Korean and US Army throw everything they have at A*P*E but since he's huge he's magically bullet-proof. So A*P*E flips the soldiers the bird...

If you should ever want to see it, the movie is on YouTube. Don't blame me if it rots your brain though...

PS: My favorite part, A*P*E like Kong has a taste for blondes. So he invades South Korean- a nation well known for it's large blonde population... (He does find a blonde American movie actress to kidnap finally!)

littletimmy

And I would TEST FIRST .... but maybe a light "sprinkle" of Baby Powder over it al

Good ideas there, young man.

Actually, in my stored away stuff, I've got soapstone cutting dust (talc is milled from soapstone), so no oddball admixes to attract critters.  Makes really good ash for a dios of a certain scale.

Speaking of testing, I do have a hair braned (or hare braned) do do a batch of plaster of pairs with club soda instead of water, just to see if I can preserve the thing we all want least in resin castings.  My stash of moulding plaster, sadly, got into enough humidity to become a brick of no particular utility.  [sad face]

But, one presses on.

This is from about 2001, using, of all things, AutoCAD R14 (Release 14, not 2014)

Gamera

may I bring up what's probably the worst giant ape movie ever-

I got one that's worse...

I actually sat through the first 30 minute's of this "Train Wreck" !

Gamera--that is pure cheese. It must be limberger because I can smell it from here. Wow. What a hoot! I am crying over that someone made something so bad. I'd like to buy it just to watch it. 

Tim--I don't know if the Robot Monster trumps Gamera's ape movie. Robot Monster is a close second, if not. I love that helmet, man. I'd like to wear that into work. 

You guys are a hoot!

CapnMac82

 

 CAD R14 (Release 14, not 2014)

 

Actually I kinda like 'Robot Monster'- it's one of those 'so bad they're good' movies. A*P*E is one of those 'so bad they're terrible' movies. 

I know A*P*E is on YouTube, that's where I watched it. Looks like 'Robot Monster' is as well. I believe it is in public domain now, my copy is on a cheap 250 krappy movies for forty bucks deal. 

CaptMac: That's pretty friggin' incredible. I'd like to learn 3D rendering to try to print stuff in 3D sometime but never get around to it. 

I will check them out on youtube to get a flaver of them. Too funny though.

Bakster

I will check them out on youtube to get a flaver of them.

You will rip your eye's out !

Don't do it !       You have too much to live for !

Bakster

Cool pic, Capn. I would love to watch how this is done.

Relatively boring, actually.

You build up the furniture one bit at a time.  With ACAD's Rednder 1.0, you had to mind which way you extruded things, as the materials "followed" the extrusion.  Anything you wanted to render differently needed a unique Layer.

The windows are a bit of a bear.  With R14 you could not embed a Void into the stucture of the Block to cut the wall geometry; so the openings had to be cut by hand.  Then a windo block installed in the void.

To make a painting, you modeled up the frame, and added a bit to be the image.

So, the blueprint of the drafting table is a pdf of an actual blueprint (scanned for some other reason).  The computer has a screen grab decaled on its "glass."

The walls are a (middling easy) extrusion from the 2D plan set.

Revit makes much of this easier.  Mind, it's meant to work in 3D from the get-go.  So, you have to plan a bit further ahead.  Even so, it likes to frustrate me at least once a day.  $5000 per seat software, and nobody thought to include a way to model a fence.  Phased construction with tower cranes, sure.  But, a wooden stockade fence?  Not so much.  Sigh.

CapnMac82

$5000 per seat software, and nobody thought to include a way to model a fence.  Phased construction with tower cranes, sure.  But, a wooden stockade fence?  Not so much.  Sigh.

It sounds interesting though. Do the plans include human figures and such? And by the way. To me, it would be interesting. Photoshopping is something that I dabble with, and that I enjoy. Doing what you do would open a whole new world to me. I would love to create from the ground up.

littletimmy

 

 

Bakster

I will check them out on youtube to get a flaver of them.

 

 

You will rip your eye's out !

Don't do it !       You have too much to live for !

 

PS. It looks like I am not getting emails again. Sigh. Who stopped up the pipes? Timmy? Was it you?

[ Muterring ]   I know I saw a plunger when I came in here .... ???

Bakster

 

 

littletimmy

 

 

Bakster

I will check them out on youtube to get a flaver of them.

 

 

You will rip your eye's out !

Don't do it !       You have too much to live for !

 

 

 

 

Lol. You'll rip your eyes kid! Ho Ho Ho.

 

 

Dang straight Timmy, I wouldn't watch them back to back without locking up all sharp objects, firearms, and drugs in the house...

I noticed the MST3K version of 'Robot Monster' is up on YouTube too. Joel and the 'bots might help the pain go down better. I wonder if 'A*P*E' will ever pop up on the new MST3K.

Yeah it was you. Since you plunged I got a slew of emails. 

Good job plunging, Tim.

Gamera

Dang straight Timmy, I wouldn't watch them back to back without locking up all sharp objects, firearms, and drugs in the house...

LOL.  These must be so bad that they are good!

Bakster

Yeah it was you. Since you plunged I got a slew of emails.  Good job plunging, Tim.

Yea ..... I had  to have some help ....

Gamera

Joel and the 'bots might help the pain go down better. I wonder if 'A*P*E' will ever pop up on the new MST3K.

Ok .... This took a "minute" ...

But just for you....

littletimmy

 

 

Gamera

Joel and the 'bots might help the pain go down better. I wonder if 'A*P*E' will ever pop up on the new MST3K.

 

 

Ok .... This took a "minute" ...

But just for you....

 

Lol thanks!!! 

I've got that boxed set around somewhere... 

I like MST3K. We used to watch the show here at work over lunch hour. We used the company overheard projector. It was a hoot.

Can you rewind this a bit ? I want to see what happend to the Icarus ...

( this is my attempt at getting us back on topic .... I know , I know.... of all people  ...)

littletimmy

( this

Well,   guess I'v exausted all my idea's ..... ( I did everything I could.)

littletimmy

Well,   guess I'v exausted all my idea's ..... ( I did everything I could.)

 

littletimmy

Can you rewind this a bit ? I want to see what happend to the Icarus ...

 

( this is my attempt at getting us back on topic .... I know , I know.... of all people  ...)

 

Sorry, I ran out of jokes about normal sized apes and had to go to Kong size... 

You guys are a hoot. I will just say that I am sorry for failing you with this WIP. My lack of progress and updates makes you dig deep for new material! LOL. BUT--having said that--you guys get a A+++++ for what you have come up with.

Sadly--I don't expect to do more work on this for a bit. I am pretty disillusioned with the mangled mess that I received, and communication from MIM seems to have stopped. Not that I was bugging them much. I give people a long rope to show their metal. But, they were to let me know some things and a recent follow-up with them has been met with dead air. That is not helping my demeanor either.  

So, for now, I am focusing on some other things. I will probably come back to this in the not too distant future. I just need to shake off my mood.

Feel free to post as you have been. I'll still be here for that. I love the banter, and inevitably some interesting stuff comes into play. Who'd a thunk that Capn is gonna work on a LEM dio?

Thanks, you guys. You are the best!