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Re: Another BLAST update!
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Date: 
Sat, 12 May 2001 05:03:01 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Mladen Pejic writes:
In lugnet.announce, Jason Julich writes:
This will be the last BLAST update for a while, I still have several more
models (some old, most new) in varying states of assembly waiting to be
photographed, but I have no camera. So, until I get around to buying a new
digital camera, this will most likely be the last update. If anyone has a
suggestion on a particular digital camera I should consider please give me a
shout?

So how have you managed to take pictures of your current models?
Maybe a better question would be, what do you use currently to take pictures of
your models?

In the past I borrowed my sisters old “Apple Quick Take 150” Digital camera,
which only has a 640x480 resolution. When I took these images I was not too
concerned about quality because they were intended as personal reference and
to lessen the trauma of disassembly. At the time I had no intention of
posting the images on the web, but now that I have BLAST I feel the image
quality for any future creations should be better. So the bad news is until
I get a better camera this will be the last BLAST update. The good news is
it should not be long before I get one.

Now for the update. If this is your first visit to BLAST and you would like
to see the site in its entirety, than use the following link.

http://www.vaxxine.com/BLAST/

If you would prefer to proceed directly to the new models, then select from
the following links.

http://www.vaxxine.com/BLAST/html/savant.html
Heavy training mecha

I like it! The fact that you were inspired by WWII training planes kind of
suprised me.

Technically the idea of a training mecha came to me from the desire to make
a mecha that was not a combat or lifter/support mecha. The natural
conclusion was a training mecha, which made me think of WWII training
planes, which in turn gave me the idea for the color scheme and the tandem
cockpit and then before I knew it I had a new division for BLAST.


http://www.vaxxine.com/BLAST/html/invader.html
Light combat mecha

Hmmm... Are you going for some kind of new record? ;-)

I’m not sure what record your referring to: the size of the Invader or the
number of mecha at BLAST? Ether way, I don’t think I’m quite ready to call
Guinness.

http://www.vaxxine.com/BLAST/html/centurion.html
Medium combat mecha

Holy Cow! Again I am astonished by your skills. So small... So articulated, So
cool...

Thanks! Most of the articulation came from the desire for the mecha to hold
the rifle with two hands.

Also, those two pictures of the mecha reaching for an extra ammo clip on its
back, well, that almost made me faint! ;-)

Actually, I was finished the model and was working out poses when I
discovered it could reach its own back. It didn’t take long for me to
realize this would be a great spot for ammo clips and the rest, as they say
is history.

http://www.vaxxine.com/BLAST/html/surveyor.html
Unmanned surveillance robot

Smart idea. I can't believe nobody else has made something like this. It seems
so logical, if you think about it.

I have to admit I don’t know where I got this idea, but it was floating
around in my head for a while and it just seemed like an obvious use for an
unmanned vehicle.

As always, any comments or suggestions are appreciated.

Jay

Mladen Pejic, over and out!
http://members.attcanada.ca/~milovan/index.htm

Thanks for the comments Mladen.

Jay



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(...) So how have you managed to take pictures of your current models? Maybe a better question would be, what do you use currently to take pictures of your models? (...) I like it! The fact that you were inspired by WWII training planes kind of (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.build)

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