I know the feeling. I have so many open projects, too. I pick them one by one. It is very easy for me to come up with a nice GC model but texturing, test building and making the instructions are the most labour intense parts. One thing which makes everything even more complicated is, some steps are preliminary in the final unfold and will be fixed during the first test. That's part of my workflow. Mostly I know where and what the issues are, even before unfolding, but I have to determine how to fix it. So in fact I am the only one who knows how to put the things together and therefore I can't just pass the unfolded pattern onto someone for test-building.
) to make certain that the models that you produce are topnotch!rinks:
I understand the sentiment, but it is why I have so many finalized designs and do not release them. Too much pressure. However, he is psychologically more stable than I am, and I can't, and am not implying (though it may seem that way), that I speak for him.
p.s. Love the work you've been doing, and the variety. I got a metal blimp, and my big fat fingers are problematic, also my wife picked it up moved it, and I think I am missing parts. I have a Cameo Silhouette cutter that can cut out these things.
I think if I had read the instructions carefully, wasn't so presumptuous in thinking "I don't need no stinking instructions", it would have come out reat. It was going along nicely after I did read the instructions, but my wife put a pile of mail and book on it and flatted the assembled piece out. The metal could probably be straightened out, and redone, but I lost interest it in. I like blimps, and have built a few paper ones, (they make great gliders if you add a litle weight to the noce!) but I'd rather have one of the neat ones like Starbuck made.
The Cameo Silhouette pissed me off as I spent a good 8 hours trying to get it to work, called them up, they said nothing was wrong. I spend eight more hours, called them up again, got a different tech, and he asked me to perform one test. I did, he said the results of that test showed it was defective, and they would be sending me another one. You make to take the model and trace out the edge you want cut with control points. It is extremely laborious., for one model. If you were going to make a bunch of the same model, then it would be great. Pepakura has a program you can buy the works with the Cameo cutter and cuts the parts out automatically. I never tried it because I never work with Pepakura. The machine does do what it says, but it does take a lot of work. The company, by the way, are an extremely nice group of people, they were extremely apologetic. Wasting 16 hours of my time trying to get it works just has turned me off to try and bother with it. It is essentially brand new, with maybe 1 hour of cutting, but I have no inclination to work with it again in the near future.
Z - That's good to know. Something like that was conveyed on the Genet site regarding their models. However, they have made their models explicitly for cutting out in that fashion. Would be interesting to see one of these cutters in action - when they work. That's again for sharing your experience.
Sky Seeker
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