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Part 3 - Legs Again a screenshot helps designing a reinforcement/hole guide for the sin. One of the reasons for my glacial build speed is a near-obsession with reinforcents; this is especially visible in the knee joint. Chicken-legged knees demands a lot of friction, and I don't want the...

Part 2 - Ankles Like in all BattleMechs I've built, articulating the ankles involves extending the upper portion which penetrates the leg dealing with the ideal rotation axis, usually near or at the leg's lower edge A screenshot and face polygons loaded in Inkscape determine both the...

Part 1 - Feet and toes I had never articulated anything as small as those toes, but fortunately their shape eases the job (articulating toes of the MW4 Shadow Cat at this scale would be much tougher; I'd have to add a "bone", like I did for the Warhammer IIC's foot's front part). First...

Part 0C - Introduction In each model the number of articulations (15 in the Warhammer IIC) and added detail has increased. Articulated joints not only make models poseable, they ease storage a lot. All models were printed 4 pages/sheet, for an approximate scale of 1/94 (reduced from 1/80 due...

Part 0B - Introduction, continued Shiftdel's MW4 Shadow Cat: and Whammy/Shiftdel's Warhammer IIC: (interrupted due to limit on attachments, continued later)

Part 0A - Introduction In the long time since I posted something noteworthy here, I've built a few MechWarrior battlemechs - Madcatmaniac/Cantaris's MW3 Shadow Cat: Then Planet Starfreak's MW3 Shadow Cat: (interrupted due to upper limit on number of attachments - continued later)

And the FM news had excited me so much...

Is there any real difference in the newer instructions? I noticed the instructions file in the recently released VF-1S Minmay Guard package is not the same as the one for all other previous A/J/S .zips. Is there a real difference in the contents, or is it related to the raster-to-vector update...

Text orientation on the underside of saucer An unrelated question: I've seen some TV shots showing the U.S.S. Valkyrie, one of the Connie's sister ships, and in Mike Trice's site http://www.mjtsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/starg.htm a few photos of its studio model from a Paramount exhibition. On...

Paragon, In order to create the red border, do you use an outlined font or do you render the text twice (red then black)?

Lettering with Inkscape: how-to part 1, redone [After waiting for 10 days, and after a private message to an administrator and a post to the help forum (both so far unanswered), I decided to rewrite as best as possible and post again the first part of my very first post. As previously...

Lettering with Inkscape: addendum to how-to part 2 [Still waiting for first part to be released] In part 2, I obviously :oops: forgot to mention that, after applying the red outline, the innermost path A should be filled with black, and the stroke removed.

Lettering with Inkscape: how-to part 3 [Interesting, part 1 of this series was postponed waiting for moderation, but part 2 was apparently accepted immediately. This means it may be out of order :-( ] Insert the ship's name in the same way. I used the Federation font from the same source, and...

Lettering with Inkscape: how-to part 2 Click twice on the ellipse, changing its handle to rotation arrows. Drag one of the arrows till the text is approximately centered. Fine-tune the size of the text and radius of the ellipse (the latter is easier if you type in the "W" field beside the...

Lettering with Inkscape: how-to Hello, :inmew: In a previous post, D-WHALE mentioned using Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org, a free vector tool, for converting to PDF. I actually use it for the whole lettering process. Here's a sketch of the steps (I use Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, but there are...