Great stuff. Keep practicing the rendering. Having great product renders of your designs will be great

Hi Everyone,

Having seen other Members here doing various Sci Fi stuff, I thought I'd have a go at it also...
I remembered watching Gerry Anderson's UFO series as a kid & figured it might be a good starting point.
Did a quick search on the web & managed to find some Blueprints for the UFO model from the show.

Here's the relevant links for others that might be also be interested.
http://ufoseries.com/blueprints/index.html

Here's a link to a model kit that was for sale, this also helped as a reference.
http://amazingscience.altervista.org/ufomodelproduct.htm#

Here's hoping I've done it justice.

UFO blueprints? Cool! :)

It turned out great.

- Michael

Encounters!

Very cool Colin!
just one question, the rippling on the bottom of the ship, is it from the surface created or refraction from the transparent material you used.

Cheers

Thanks for the compliments.

@ Danny, yes, it's the refraction from the glass material I used for the rendering.
Here's another render that shows the same effect...must be something to do with the angle?

regards Colin

Now all we need is a coupla hott models of some cutie chix with purple hair and you'd be straight! :-P


Nice model!

-Will

Hi Everyone,

Here's a design & milling job I had to do for another Jeweller.
Their customer had picked out a nice Emerald cut Ametrine (Amethyst & Citrine in one crystal formation).
The Jeweller figured I could design & mill it quicker than he could hand make it in time for Xmas...so I did!!

All designed in MoI & milled on my MDX-15 & Fourth Axis rotary unit.
Now these pieces are off to the Jeweller to be cast, cleaned up, assembled & set, so this is the last I'll see of it.
You gotta love CAD/CAM for a quick turn around time!!

regards Colin

Very cool Colin, I'm glad that you're able to crunch these jobs out quickly!

- Michael

Precious setting ;)

Nice interesting work as usual Colin, thanks for sharing the experience.

Cheers

Nice work man!!
I'm also interested in purchasing that milling machine (MDX-15).
How much does it cost?
Are you satisfied with it? How much do the materials cost?

Thanks everyone for the nice comments, it's much appreciated.

@ nicko, here's a link back to where this was previously discussed earlier within the post.
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=490.7

regards Colin

Hi Colin,

Nice to be able to knock out a design on short notice! :-) The models and waxes look great.

Jesse

Hi Everyone,

Had a request from another Jeweller if I could make a Signet ring with the RAR (Royal Australian Regiment) Insignia.
Figured I'd at least give it a try & so managed to do it all in MoI.
The only "outside item" was the textured surface for the background of the Insignia, it was done in Zsurf4 as an IGES file.

A Copy & Paste of the MoI model into Rhino for rendering with V-Ray & now just waiting for an OK from the Jeweller's customer.

Model has been designed to be hollowed under the top half of the ring, so will mill it as several pieces to allow access to all areas.
Once all the pieces are milled in wax, I can then rejoin everything so as it can be cast as one complete item without joins.

regards Colin

Some great details in there Colin, it must be fun to have such a variety of projects - you've done so many different things on a ring, from motorcycles to kangaroos!

- Michael

Hi Everyone,

Thought I'd post a job that I've been working on recently.

Many years ago I managed to get my hands on a huge acorn sized South Seas Pearl from Broome in Western Australia.
It's been sitting there along with various other Stones that I'd collected, just waiting for me to design something with it.
The Wife spotted it the other week & then decided that I should design something using it for her upcoming Birthday.

The idea was to design something that could be worn as either a pendant on a chain or as a Pearl Enhancer.
So using the basics from a set of Ear-rings that I'd hand made previously for her, I created this "Arch Windows" Pearl Cap to match them.
All that left was to design the Enhancer catch, this part was reasonably simple & straight forward to do.

The whole job has been modelled within MoI, then transferred into Rhino for rendering with V-Ray.
Rendered it as two units to show how the various details looked at the different angles.

Now I've just got to convert it from "virtual" to "real world" in time for the Birthday next week!!

regards Colin

Hi Colin, looks great! And very interesting with acorn sized pearls, wow.

I think your wife is going to have a nice birthday!

- Michael

Hi ya Colin its nice to see your talented works here.
did you get a finished photo of the pearl set...I would love to see it all set.
cheers.
David Parry