Buck Rogers robot "Twiki" custom design thread

[ShadowCory]

I have previously made a 3d printable design for Twiki from the Buck Rogers television show. I am going to attempt to make a paper version to share here. The 3d printable verse can be found at Thingiverse.

Here is a picture of the 3d model I made with Blender.

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

Thank you very much for tackling this project!!!
It looks like you have a good base to work from! I am very curious to see how this will turn out!
Needless to say, I will be following this thread closely!!!

 

[Revell-Fan]

Cory, I am so glad that you have decided to tackle this one. I have seen your model and was about to ask you if you would do it to surprise RB. But then he was faster.

I tried to edit the mesh myself but it was too high poly. In fact, SketchUp froze while loading because of that.

One thing I noticed is that the head shape could benefit from a slight refinement. The angle of the dome is pointier on the original as is the chin. The neck and cheeks are a bit wider, too. There is a structure following the shape of the helmet that runs around the neck from Twiki's "ear" to "ear", too. I have attached some pictures to illustrate. Please dont be offended by this, I just want to give you some tips to improve an already great-looking model and now would be the right time to point those things out before the design process has progressed to much.






RB and I have extensive archives if you need additional material. I'm really looking forward to seeing your progress!

 

[ShadowCory]

So I found that the first image I captured was not the final version of Twiki I had made. That was a ver2, and I found a version 3 which had better dome and face shapes. This is th actual version that is on Thingiverse.


This was as far as I took the sculpt as it's many boolean an remesh operations made it hard to sculpt or add any more details to it. So I just called :done for now" and kept working to make a finished model. I have to do that on many of my projects, otherwise, I'd never finish a thing!

 

[ShadowCory]

Here I have started pulling out shapes to make it a paper model.

 

[Revell-Fan]

This is a great start!

 

[mijob]

Nice job gone watch this thread.

 

[ShadowCory]

Here is what I have so far. I think I'll do a test build to check fit and proportion before I tackle the head and detail parts.

 

[Awry_Chaos]

Looking good! Good to see Blender is being used

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

That looks good already! You really have my curiosity up!!!

 

[mijob]

That looks realy good.

 

[Revell-Fan]

Very good!

I must say, in this headless state he resembles a historic Roman; he even wears a tunic.

 

[ShadowCory]

And so it begins...

 

[Awry_Chaos]

Very good! Looking good so far!

 

[ShadowCory]

Thanks! This is first test build of the body base area. Made some refinements and am building it out again.

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

That looks great thus far!

 

[mijob]

Thats a verry nice start.

 

[Revell-Fan]

AWESOME START!!!

This thread is starting to become dangerous for my and Rhaven's hardware. I already feel the drool coming...

 

[ShadowCory]

Merry Christmas! I'm making some progress...

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

This is really coming together nicely!!!
I really like what I am seeing!!!