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Darth Maul minifig head - hints and tips?
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Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:44:35 GMT
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Just to let everyone know I'm tentatively starting the Darth Maul head, but
as it's my first attempt at a part I'm going to wait until I've finished
before sorting out the pattern number as I may not get chance to complete
it. I've already done 1/4 of the pattern, but I can see that filling in the
quads around the pattern to make up the non-patterned part of the face is
going to be tricky. Does anyone have any tips on doing this? I've got an A4
scan of the head and I've written a quick VB program so that I can enter the
X and Y co-ords in mm and have it calculate the LDraw X,Y and Z values for
each point (using the standard smiley face quads as a basis for the planes
on which to put the pattern). If there's an easier way then I'd like to hear
it (eg. feed scan of head into program to generate points, that would be
really cool!) :)
Dan
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Darth Maul minifig head - hints and tips?
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| ACK! That's gonna be a toughie! Good luck. One of my little "secrets" is that I often "draw" the face in a two-dimensional image (i.e., Z = -13 for all points on this preliminary image), and then check the "Front View" box in MLCAD to make sure the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
| | | Darth Maul minifig head - a work in progress [DAT]
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| OK, here's a the main part of the pattern (no quads between the pattern yet, and still the mouth, outer edges and eyes to do, plus the upper part of the pattern needs to be angled back instead of in a vertical plane!), any criticism you want to (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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