1:72 Scale Model 3D Model

MODELING

Finished 3D Model

RENDERING

RESEARCH

TEXTURE MAP

Not historically accurate…

Historically accurate…

www.shortfuse3d.com

Presenter, Konley Kelley

Avid modeler / enthusiastScale and 3D models

…published!

Are you ready?

Put on your 3D glasses now!

3D in movies…cool!

…just kidding

3D in movies Can you name the movies?

Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Digital Domain, WETA Digital

PixarCan you name the movies?

John Lasseter Pixar founder / Director of TOY STORY

…he signed this poster for me on the back of a limo

TV

…tell Coca Cola Polar Bears story

Can you name the TV shows and commercials?

Ally McBeal’s “Dancing Baby”

Games Can you name the games?

How games used to look…

…Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Myst

Created by two brothers, Robyn and Rand MillerTop selling PC game from 1993 – 2002Inspiration for the TV show LOST3D made with Strata 3D

My Background and Early Work

American Film Institute

… my 3D model of AFI

“Hollyweird”

Volunteer/seat filler

Katie, me, Moses and Mickey

P-38 Lightning

… one of my first models at AFI (1996)

Dogfight

1:32 MonogramP-38 Lightning

Dogfight animation

The Alamo in 3D

… made this while living in LA (1996)

The Alamo / renders

The Line in the Sand

What did the Daughters of the Republic of Texasthink of my 3D Alamo? Caretakers of the Alamo.

Planetoids

SciFi Movie

Wanted: 3D artist

…showers and beds (1997)

Teaching 3D

Caligari Truespace (1998)

3D Model Kit

Who was the Red Baron’s greatest adversary?

A dustyRevell 1:28Fokker Dr.1

WWI Flying Ace & his Sopwith Camel

How is it done? “Spirit of St. Louis”

Strata 3D Interface – 3 views

Rendering options

Raytracing

Animation path and timeline

Lucky Lindy animation

Research PBY Catalina

Scale model and reference books

….use the Internet for research!

“Enemy Carriers!”

...Lt. “Howie” Ady’s PBY “Strawberry 5”

“Build the model” USS Fletcher DD-445

You can use scale model instructions as a guide

How to make a 5” gun

5” gun parts – exploded view

Extrude - turret

Lathe - gun

Paint/texture-map the parts

Fletcher parts and subassemblies

…cloning objects

“Fletcher at sea”

“Fletcher at sea”

Fletcher at “Doolittle Raid”

….Internet research story

Fletcher at “Battle of Midway”

“Using pre-made models”

Viewpoint Datalabs

Star Wars

.dxf files

X-Wing Wireframe

Star Wars X-Wing Rendered

Star Wars

…I customized the Tie Fighter

Star Trek

Uh..oh..red shirt crewman

…before I ever heard of Photoshop

“Silent Hunter”

Viewpoint Datalabs

Revell 1:125 U-99

U-boat on surface

…in Bryce Atlantic

“Hunting the hunter”

…with 1:48 Monogram TBM Avenger

“Texture-mapping” P-40

Basics of Texture-mapping

Flying Tiger Texture-map

P-40 naked and clothed

“Tigers on the Prowl”

3D People PT-109

What attacked Lt. Kennedy’s boat?

PT-109 in tub

PT-109 model

Monogram1:72 PT-109

PT-109 crew

….Konley Kelley as Lt. John F. Kennedy

PT-109 crew on deck

PT-109 Stern

“D-Day”

“Curahee!”

101st Airborne over Normandy

1:72 C-47

“Rendezvous with Destiny”

…transparency example (C-47 seen through parachute)

I want to make a King Tiger in 3D from scratch…After seeing the “how to” what do you think?

1:35 King Tiger “Battle of the Bulge”

Time to show you some of my best stuff!

“USS Lexington Museum by the Bay”

3D USS Lexington

USS Lexington meets “Bazooka”

….take pictures / visual library of ship

Lexington 3D images

….Tomcats and Phantoms…accuracy Revell model kit

Real or 3D?

F-14 Tomcat

…”Jolly Rogers”

Battleship Texas

Another Scout trip…so did I make a 3D Battleship Texas?

Battlecar Texas

…Pinewood Derby car with 1:350 Banner USS Arizona parts

Operation Desert Storm

Abrams & Apache in Action

…combine your 3D models in action!

Abrams in Action

…used real Abrams blast for 3D model diorama

AbramsScaleModel

Abrams shoots!

Bent-wing Birds

F4U Corsair

…combined with Zero I made a long time ago

Corsair victory

Corsairs and the “Big E”

F4U Corsair – Korean War

New texture map

Real Corsair at Vought Aircraft

1:48 scale model

M*A*S*H

Find Radar’s Teddy Bear

1:35 Dodge Ambulance

“Snake” Stuka – my favorite model

….which one is 3D and which one is a scale model?

Stuka texture-map

…use decal sheets to make texture maps – SCAN BEFORE PUTTING ON MODEL

Stuka 3D model

Ju87 Stuka

Stuka animated

Sahara M3 Lee Tank

“Sahara” 1943 film starring Humphrey Bogart

So let’s build a scale model tank!

No…this isn’t Bogey’s tank!

My wife built this. She calls it “Beverly Hills Tank.”

M3 Lee Tank Scale Model

Sgt. Joe Gunn reporting for duty!

What was Rommel’s nickname?

Hey Bogey, I’m thirsty!!

3D M3 Lee tank naked and clothed

M3 Lee Tank in action

M3 Lee Tank in action

“Lulubelle” on the battlefield

That’s not good…

Sink the Bismarck!

…telling a story in scale and 3D

Bismarck Pool Trials

1:350 Tamiya DKM Bismarck

Bismarck Parts

Bismarck Guns

Scale modelHMS Hood

Battle of the Denmark StraitMay 22, 1941

Bismarck in Action

….with Prinz Eugen in the firing in the distance

Bismarck found by PBY

RAF PBY spots the Bismarck….pose looks an awful lot like the other 3D PBY (smile)

HMS Ark Royal launches Swordfish

Mixing scales - 1:600 Airfix HMS Ark Royal and 1:48 Tamiya Fairey Swordfish

Swordfish attack the Bismarck

…appeared in FineScale Modeler, Dec. ’05

*Bismarck was 50,000 tons, Swordfish was 7,700 lbs.

Tirpitz

Bismarck’s sister shipLet’s fire some 15 in guns!

Tirpitz fires!

Jet in a Weekend ME262

ME262 3D views

Under wing panel from an ME262 at the Historic Aviation Memorial Museum, Tyler, Texas

German Ace Heinz Bar’s “Red 13”

ME262 in Action

…with 3D B-17G Flying Fortresses…SPEAKING OF BOMBERS

“Nose Art”

B-24J Liberator

Roy Grinnell, Artist of the Aces

B-24J Liberator “Tall, Torrid and Texas” - inspiration for this project

B-24D Liberator in Action

3rd Place, 2010 DeSoto Art League Art ShowPhotography/Digital Media category

“B24 vs. ME262”

Commemorative Air Force

B-24A Liberator “Diamond Lil”

“Diamond Lil” right/left side

Right Side

Left Side

“Diamond Lil” in 3D

“Diamond Lil” in 3D

First person to ever make a 3D model of a B-24A Liberator

“Diamond Lil” and “FIFI”

“The Goon” B-24D

1:48 B-24DScale Model

T/Sgt Arthur Benko, top turret gunner, 18 enemy aircraft shot down (record)

“The Goon” animated

Ploesti Raid August 1, 1943

One third (53) aircraft lost / 310 aircrew killed, 108 captured Five Medal of Honor* recipients (3 posthumously)

*Most for any single air action in history

SSgt. Robert PhillipsB-24 Top Turret Gunner343rd BG

P-51D Mustang “Cadillac of the Sky”

Scale model P-51D Mustang

“The Brat III” with “FIFI”

“Red Nose” with “FIFI”

P-51 pilot – George Preddy “Top Mustang Ace”

26.8 Air-to-Air VictoriesCrew Chief was a barber in civilian life

“Tuskegee Airmen”

P-51 pilot Lt. Roscoe Brown, Jr. 332nd Fighter Group “Tuskegee Airmen”

Wanna see a Mustang fly?

Inspiration

“Diamond Lil” and “FIFI”

I am in here!

AWESOME!!!

C-45 Expeditor “Bucket of Bolts”

…also known as “BoB”1:72 scale model

“FIFI” Texture maps

3D, Real, Scale

Scale model, homemade decals

1:72 scale model

3D “FIFI” takes flight

“FIFI” becomes the Enola Gay

Flying on “FIFI”

PLAY MOVIE

Flying in the nose of a Superfortress

Best part - meeting Veterans

James Clark, B-29 Bombardier15 missions on B-29 “Black Magic”

B-29 “Goin’ Jessie” w/P-51’s Charles Chauncey, B-29 Pilot in Command

Lt. Charles Chauncey35 Missions5th BS/9th BG*Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross

3rd Place, 2012 DeSoto Art League Art ShowPhotography/Digital Media category

That’s the end of our “tail” for now

CAF B-29/B-24 Squadron Mtg., August 18, 2012Warbirds on Parade, September 1, 2012, Lancaster Airport When they are home, see “FIFI” and “Diamond Lil” at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum. Take a flight deck tour! www.cavanaughflightmuseum.comLearn more about the CAF at www.cafb29b24.org

CAF B-29/B-24 Squadron Mtg., August 18, 2012Warbirds on Parade, September 1, 2012, Lancaster Airport When they are home, see “FIFI” and “Diamond Lil” at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum. Take a flight deck tour! www.cavanaughflightmuseum.comLearn more about the CAF at www.cafb29b24.org

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Honor our Veterans. Hobby Lobby Happy Modeling!

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