Making Of Wooden Panels (Update #2)

First of all, happy candy day! (a.k.a, Holloween...)

Dropped by at hobby shop today to see if I can get any supplies for the wooden panels for the wall. Unfortunately, there were no right size for me. Well, time for DIY:

The main tool I will be using is BMC 0.15mm chisel, along with few supporting tools such as needle and ruler for the basic line scrap.

First, here is the measurement, the width of each cell is 0.5cm wide.



Then draw lines across and scrap along it :





And here is the result:





Over all:




Not bad eh?

Byousoku 5cm Projcet... Update #1

Just a quick update, think this one is going to be a quick build unless I have enough time to paint it over the holidays. Anyway here it goes:

Will be using this as a reference, along with the art book



Spent few hours and pretty much finished the base, details will be added on from here:



Cut spaces for window:



Some quick detail touch:

Set Design Project...?

Thinking of doing something different this time, instead of making a mecha model, I decided to do a set design model. So I took out Makoto Shinkai's reference book I got earlier this year:



which contains references for Byousoku 5cm, Beyond The Clouds, Voice Of Distant Stars and one of his Short animation for a morning newspaper in Japan.



(Camera is out of battery...)

Flipped few pages, then I decided to do a set design on this scene from Byousoku 5cm:



Since is not too complicated, I think it should be a good challenge for me to test my skills.

A better look:



Gonna do some drawing and see how the scale is going to be in the following days, hopefully I can start by end of the week, treat it as the project in November!

Toppi Is Done...? (Update #8)

Finally got around to finish up Toppi this weekend.

Spent considerable amount of time on the bag strap, as well as the left hand, just try to get it almost identical to the right hand. However got lazy in the end, didn't add too much details on it. Planing to move on to the next project =P.

Project started middle of September, finished at end of October... Total updates: 8. Way too long, need to speed up.

Anyway, here are the pics:



Front:



Back:



Side:



Bag:



Comparison with original drawing:



"Let's be friends forever~!"



Alright, time to move on to the next one.

Booo Could Not Finish It

Ok so I lied, couldn't finish Toppi by end of thanksgiving long weekend. However, I got close to finish, right now just need to finish up left hand and the other side of the strap. Then just some minor touch up, I have no idea when I will be done, maybe in a day or two, or maybe nothing until next Sunday. (Note, yeah is the week of 26th or something Orz.. )

In order to make up for my crime of not finish it on time, here are two pics:





Thoughts in a corner: A trip to France during x-mas...?

Now thinking about next project, any suggestions?

Quote of the day: Life is full of setbacks. Success is determined by how you handle setbacks.

Toppi update #7 (Toppi Is Angry!!)

Hello everybody, this is Yami.

Here is some small update on the bag, there is some difficulty with the strap of the bag, the clay is too weak, so have to use epoxy to make it.

Here are the WIP pics:

Basic shape:



Here are some details been added:



And here is the test fit pic, note that the strap broke after I took it off (it was an accident T_T)



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Off topic, my dear France friend showed me a trailer of Pushing Daisies the other day... I got addicted.




PS: Yay counter hits over 100 since I added! (Note: at around 40% of them are from myself...)

Toppi update #6 (Neck ring is DONE!)

Hello readers, this is Yami.

Spent couple quality hours today and finished up the neck ring. Used MSG (Modeling Supply Goods) for spikes. The size is slightly off, so have to spend around 15 - 20 minutes on each spikes to get the size right. Damn I love the result XD.

Here are the pics:

8 spikes been worked and ready to be glued on:



Finished product:



Overall look:


Next stop, the headband and the bag. I will come back to the hand later since I'm not quite sure how it should look like at this point.

That's it for now, stay tuned! (I can feel it, is almost done...!)

Old Work: Ex-S

This one was posted on my old blog, and since Ravious Works died, might as well post it here and at least I can share it with my readers.

Ex-S Ver.S, completed in April 2008.















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Just too many pics... I will try to add it more later once I have time. That's it for now! Be back with more posts =P.

Ravious Works Is Over...

Exactly 10 months a go, I got a invitation from a friend of mine I met on the forum to starting up our own hobby show case website, called Ravious Works. Things was going well until middle of August, the project has gone on hold due to variety of reasons. Today, things finally falls apart, but it was a great ride and a pleasure to know all these hobbyists that helped me along the way.


From bottom of my heart, thank you for those people who helped us out (if any of you are actually following my blog, if not, wherever you are, thank you!), although we have failed, but it was a great experience and worth a blast.

Without failure, there won't be success.

Some Mental Health Work

Hello, this is Yami.

Added few things on my blog today, since the Toppi project is going very slow at this point. Here are the things added:

1) Music

Yes, I'm not a big fan of putting on music on to my blog, especially this one which will be focused on my sculpting works only, however I don't think it would hurt. Just adding some new flavors =P. The song I currently have on is called Diamond Crevasse from Macross Frontier (Yes, I do watch few mecha anime just for the heck of it = =;). Really like the voice and melody of this song...

2) Counter

.... Just for the heck of it
As time goes on, more features will be added, I hope they are not getting in the way for viewers =P.

Oh... and I don't think is fair without of pic of how far Toppi is doing:



Toppi has a tail now! (And all of the parts are present, now just need to finish it)[note, is tail not tale = =; Too much of Pushing Daisies these days]

Target: finish it by end of this week or early next week! (Damn this thing is been dragging for too long)

Call this an update..?! (Toppi Update #5?)

Time sure pass by fast, October 1st, 2008.

Hello everybody, this is Yami.

Did a history check today, is already been almost three weeks since this project started, and is not progressing at the rate I'm hoping for. Kinda losing motivation at this point... Anyway, my goal is finish this between middle of October so I can move on to my next one (need to finish that one fast) and then progress to my "secret" (you called that a secret?) project... <_<

Ok enough chit-chat, time for pics:

"What are you looking at... Kuma"



front:



feet:
almost done the feet, didn't put much enough effort as I hoped. D=



Hopefully by the next update, I will get most of the body work done =P.