cylonchaney

Futurama would have been a great property for Minimtes. Nice work. <Cylonchaney stumbles off to look into Roberto and Calculon customs.>

So bad in so many ways. I'll say this for it. I watched all the way to the end, so right there, could have been worse. It had a couple of moments. But not the kind of movie I'm looking for from this franchise. And I hate the design of the main character. It was definitely better than the one with the kid though. LOL

I've edited the original post to give you credit. Thanks!! Love your work.

Pretty amazing.

I doubt these commercials ran in the UK. But in North America, Ricardo was famous for playing Mr. Roarke and Khan. And for his Cordoba commercials. They invented the term "Corinthian Leather" simply because it sounded cool when he said it. LOL

Four Khans do not make a Rourke. For a companion vehicle, do I do with the tent-top red Fantasy Island car? Or a Cordoooooba with rich Corinthian leather?

I was thinking about doing Tattoo and Mr. Roarke.

I'm no Blender expert. But that's basically correct.

I do all my stuff in a program called openSCAD. It's free. But it's sort of a programming language. You write a script that describes how to create your object. The nice thing is it's easy to tweak things. But it's horrible for organic shapes like hair pieces. You can see my self-designed hair pieces are ridiculously simple. My male Trek characters all have simple hair pieces designed by me. The ones that have any texture are upscaled Lego designs that I've found on the internet. Invincible or any female characters, for example. Here is the code for the sword CC is holding in some of the early pics. module sword() { //blade difference() { cube([1.4,3,25],center=true); // cut to make it pointy translate([0,-2.75,-13.5]) rotate([30,0,0]) cube([5,5,15],center=true); // other cut to make it pointy mirror([0,1,0]) translate([0,-2.75,-13.5]) rotate([30,0,0]) cube([5,5,15],center=true); } //hilt translate([0,0,12.5]) cube([1.4,9,1.75],center=true); //handle translate([0,0,15]) cube([1.4,2.1,8.5],center=true); } sword(); I think you'll find Blender is the best free tool out there to sculpt organic shapes like hair pieces. You might look into some tutorials on Blender for 3d printing. There are some videos specific to that. I've still not gotten into this yet but plan to use Blender where my CAD program is not a good fit. I find it quite good at modifying existing stl files. For example, I sometimes upscale Lego hair pieces. I then use Blender to cut the minimate head shape out of the hair piece so it fits better. Learn the boolean modifier. It's the one you'll need to merge objects or carve one from another. To directly answer your question, I'd say Blender is probably the easiest free tool you'll find for sculpting organic shapes like hair pieces. There exist easier to use CAD tools appropriate for designing the body parts and other blocky objects.

The wayback machine, web.archive.org has snapshots of various web sites on various dates including our old favourite, The Minimate Factory. It can take some poking around to find the latest versions of pages that are stored there. Especially when Luke changed some of the download urls over time. This link seems to get many of the decals that were posted on the site. Also, there were a lot of useful articles that you can find as well. https://web.archive.org/web/20111229060858/http://minimatefactory.com/blog/?page_id=152

There's an easy way to access a bunch of the content that was there. I'm happy to share my method if it's OK with you Luke. But if you've taken it down for reasons, I don't want to show people how to bypass that. LOL

It pains me to my sole to read such a callus criticism of Minimate feet. How would you feel if the shoe was on the other foot?

A Minimate should never judge another Minimate unless he's walked a mile in his ... Also, it allows arms to be used as skinny legs for certain characters. Muppets Pepe the Prawn for example.

I print my mate-like block figures in all ABS. They can hold a pose pretty well.

Why is it called Soylent Green when it's made of Purple?