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Beautiful build, Kenw, thanks for sharing! Hope you are listening to some great Renaissance music while you are building. :)

Now that's an understatement! :-) Most Chinese I meet, no matter their age, gender, or class, will happily tell you that they "hate" Japan and all Japanese. Maybe genteel city dwellers will say "dislike", but the sentiment is there. Now, they might be wearing Japanese fashions when they...

What a striking build, I think your weathering really added a lot to the overall impression. Very well done, thanks for posting the photos!

Gregory, your pre-dreadnought models are really fine works, please keep sharing them with us! I love pre-dreadnoughts, they are so much more interesting and romantic than later warships, with all their masts, funnels, gun sponsons, even ramming prows. To me they are much more evocative...

Excellent graphics!

Bravo, well done! Very creative and original.

$3.50? That's amazing! Really, I think card modeling is so unusual in that you can get such nice products for pennies! Think of how long it took to create that beautiful Gotha model: research, design, test building, graphics, documentation, packaging, etc. And you can buy it for the price...

Looks *Very* nice! Can we see some closer shots?

Very nice! Gregory, OT, but do you know about the recent pc game "Distant Guns"? It's a very nice naval sim of the Russo-Japanese War. Extremely detailed ships, if you like pre-dreadnoughts, you might enjoy it!

Way, way cool!

Amazing work! Where are you guys in China?

Great examples of the power of graphics to convey detail! This is what I mean when I suggest that some designers do not give sufficient attention to graphics. If the graphics are detailed and realistic, the "geometry" or "dimensionality" of the model can be *simplified*, even as the level of...

Keith, I think you nailed it. To make good-looking graphics, you really need to know a little about the nature of color, light, shadow, perspective, composition, etc. Just having a great software tool alone won't do it, anymore than having a copy of MS Word will make you a great writer...

Thanks, Charlie, that's good news! I think you must be right, here at this site I have seen many military models with absolutely awesome graphics. Maybe military models lead in this regard because they are the most popular or most commercialized? I see your point, but on the other hand, pc...

I absolutely agree, and I think the reason is that it uses a very different set of tools and skills than designing a model. Designing a model is an exercise in engineering, designing textures is much more of an artistic task. I think most model designers think more like engineers than...

A very sincere "thank you" to everyone for sharing their expertise and advice. And sjsquirrel, I think I should send you a coupon for a finger tendon massage after that explanation! That was very comprehensive, and should be part of the site's advice archive. Very useful unformation...

Beautiful model, very well constructed and photographed! Thanks, eatcrow2! A couple of years ago I saw one of these up close for the first time in my life. What really surprised me was when it turned it's head to look at me. Not many insects can turn their head so visibly.

Wunwinglow , thanks for the advice and screenshots! Great information! I'm still wondering about how you negotiate going to/from vector to bitmap. Suppose you design something in Sketchup/Pepakura, then use a graphics editor to make the textures. What if SketchUp gives you something like...

Hello Tim, Can I ask you more about SketchUp? I took a look at it, was very impressed, but came away with the impression that it wasn't accurate enough. I believe the smallest unit of measurement is 1/64". I do a lot of bitmap-intensive graphics work, I have to be able to work at the...