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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Dave Schuler writes:
> > http://members.bellatlantic.net/~drteeth1/clones/9519.jpg
>
> It's great! What do you call this little guy? Ed-209?
Alas, it's simply the 9519 main model straight from the instructions. I
made a small mistake and inverted the colors on the foot pieces--oops! I
had to cheat and modify the colors in POV-Ray, but it looks like LDraw 495
works fairly well. The chrome on the machine gun isn't supposed to be quite
so shiny, either, but I sort of like it as-is.
> Any chance of a Dave! original variant?
I have a few ideas in the works. I hope to write a few more of the
Blok-Bot joint parts this weekend, and after that I'll see about putting an
actual original model together. In the short term, I've used (and will be
releasing) a dumbed-down but functional version of the basic "male" part of
the click joint. The real part involves a toothed disc that I've found
difficult to render. My substitute part is badly oversimplified, but it has
the same dimensions and allows one at least to represent the joints
semi-accurately. I also need to do the linetype 5 bits of the rounded joints.
I'm confident that the folks at Ritvik had a meeting and said "there's a
guy down there in the States working on computer renderings of our
stuff--let's use a whole lot of weird curves just to mess with him."
> And what the heck does Dr Teeth mean?
My wife and I toured with The Electric Mayhem for a few years after Altamont.
Well, actually she just likes that particular Muppet, so when it came time
to pick a user name for our Internet account...
Thanks a bunch for the feedback! Being a clone-fan is sometimes a lonely
business, so we zealots need to stick together!
Dave!
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