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Not enough castles here? Maybe not, but we have some stuff to see in the States.
- actual car of the real bandit duo Bonnie and Clyde - http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2894
- glow in the dark mini golf with a KISS theme - http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/35834
Sonja, you will be modeling your own castle, etc. before you know it. In addition to following John's modeling thread closely, I try to take a few minutes to examine many new items that I acquire. If I pick up a new prop or set from a PA or freebie producer that I admire, here are steps that I often take to see what good work looks like.
1 - I open it in the vertex modeler (assuming it is a prop). I take a look at the mesh and note the edge flow and polygon density.
2 - I also take a look a the uvmapping room. Sometimes the model uses multiple overlapping maps, so I use the tab to only show current material zone.
3 - I check to see if bump maps and other shader features loaded correctly in Carrara. If not, I try to improve the shaders.
4 - If I had to adjust the shaders or make other changes, I save a Carrara-optimized version of the prop for future use.
Over time, I hope it has helped me get an appreciation for quality modeling in addition to saving time when using the prop in the future.
Yup. Never seen a real castle in real life. :(
I'm still seriously amazed at how much effort the human race has spent trying to (and succeeding) kill each other. When I got the HMS Victory, I'm just awe-struck that it's a real vessel - only one of many. The utensils of war on display at my favorite German food restaurant are just insane.
I'm from a small, rural community in Wisconsin, where we all know each other and get along quite well ;)
The town where I grew up had long been a Celtic settlement when the Romans invaded in AD43. Even before the Celts it had been a neolithic river crossing. The Saxons built the first cathedral around AD600, and at about that time King Ethelbert of Kent decreed a code of 90 laws and punishment. These are thought to be the earliest law code of any kind in any germanic language and the wording is the earliest surviving document in the English language. The Normans built a castle in 1067, and a new cathedral in 1080. In 1215, shortly after signing the Magna Carta, King John laid seige to the castle (the movie Ironclad is about this battle). Fast forward a bit, in 1701, my high school was founded "for the teaching of navigation and mathematics of the sons of the freemen of the city". 58 years later, in 1759 at the dockyard two miles down river, the keel was laid of a certain HMS Victory.
In 1909 Short Brothers started manufacturing Wright Fliers under licence. Designs improved and in the 1930s they made the Empire flying boats, which flew to all parts of the empire. During WWII they were best known for the Short Sunderland (my mum worked the production line). After the war they relocated to Belfast, and are still known for the Short 330.
Population of the city and neighbouring towns (which have basically merged) is now about 250,000.
Tim you can't live too far from where my younger brother lived, He was one of the most unusual residents of a sheltered housing complex for disabled in Chatham and then,when that was declared unfit, he moved to one in Rochester, He did have a mobility scooter, but he also had a specially designed trike which he drove, as he was a founder member of the Medway chapter of the Renegades MC.
His funeral in March last year saw over 100 motorcyclists form 4 or 5 different clubs meet up outside the sheltered housing complex to escort him on his last ride to the Bluebell Crem.
Wow! Thanks Tango Alpha!
Yup, born in St Barts, Chatham, fifty-mumble years ago :)
Man, I wanna pack up Rosie and come visit our Carrara friends in the UK. I've never left the United States.
I'm the only one of my parents and their four children whom hasn't been outside of it. My baby Sister married a wonderful guy from Oslo, Norway - the pictures my Dad brought back are absolutely stunning! I did some volunteer stone work for the miniature copy of the Thousand Year Old Church of Norway on our Washington Island, but my (then) boss didn't let me stay long enough to really give it the justice I wanted to put into it.
Rosie is really longing to visit the realms beyond our borders. I'm still nervous about it. But am also eager. I've seen 36 of our United States. Amazing how much of it is still so wild. I wish it could stay that way. I exist very well with forest critters. After only a few hours of meditation, I can have them climbing all over me, kissing my face. I have considered our native wildlife my family since I was fairly young, and I'm probably very close to the same age as you ;)
Lol, I seen them all long time ago (before the war), I was born there, you know
City I'm from is 550 years old
I've been very fortunate and have been to several castles in Germany and Austria. My parents were from Germany and we would visit relatives fairly often. I would dearly love to go back and just visit all the places we went as a family, would love to go by the apartments my grandmother lived in and the little house my other grandmother lived in. It may sound strange but I often get homesick for the places we visited, we stayed 6 weeks to 2 months at a time and I grew very familiar with Stuttgart and Leonberg. Of course that was many many years ago and I don't know if I will ever be able to afford to go back.
We are all related in many ways... my ancestors hail from England, Ireland, Germany and Russia... so I likely have a tiny bit of Neanderthal in my DNA.
As youngsters my Brother and I collected arrowheads in the Ozarks, close to Fort Wood. Many years later, not long ago, my Brother found an arrowhead on our farm on the Bourbeuse river. Today I find myself in the county of The Gateway to the West. Oh I did dine in a faux castle a few years back and watch jousting... Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament – Orlando, Florida.
That sounds like a lot of fun, that jousting tournament. Would love to see something like that.
Wow. wgdjohn, you and I have a lot in common. My brother still has a fine collection of arrowheads we've found when we were young. We used to walk for miles and miles and miles - just because we liked to. We were out in the middle of nowhere, which is an awesome place to be!
I've been in the beginning foundation of a castle that a very outgoing lady friend of ours started constructing as a place people could visit. Man, she was so cool! She wanted to paint a portrait of Rosie and I because of the obvious love attachment we have makes us glow when we're together. Then she got hit by a car (at 80-something years old) and killed before we ever had the chance. When she was in her eighties, she told her sons that they could not put vinyl siding on the new addition of their store, so she - all by herself - put natural stone siding on it... in her eighties! So cute.
We have a cool Renaissance park nearby in Bristol Wisconsin. Haven't been there in a Long time. Oh... and I love to dine as well!
you must try a night in a humpy
Have we become derailed?
I'm going to have to look that one up.
Yes, we have become derailed, sorry if that was my fault!
Derailed is my natural state!
I also have a small collection of stone arrowheads, although I bought them on ebay from a guy in Germany who knaps them (10 euros for 50, I think they were). I used them as promotional giveaways for one of my novels.
Jump the tracks as often as you like I certainly don't mind. One of the things I love about this community actually I love getting to know people better.
We have a medeivil festival at Upper Canada Village, every year with live jousting with the Kights of Valour who had a TV show on the History channel here in Canada. It is always a good time. You know they are not faking it when you see them hit and periodically there is some blood leaking out from under the armour if things did not connect correctly.
I will see If I have a picture at home that shows the lances both bending just a split second before a double unhorsing.
Me too! Thanks Ice Dragon Art! You Rock!!!
Aww thanks! I have made some wonderful friends via the forums here and I think its just awesome that we are able to talk across the oceans with people all over the world from our living rooms. It still amazes me lol.
Pictures would be awesome. And that must be an amazing thing to see. I would imagine that those lances coming up against armour must make a bit of noise as well.
I love those festivals. I used to be a monster at a local (now gone) amusement park so was no stranger to makeup and getting dressed up. So I went dressed like a bloodied Barbarian and they asked me if I would escort the Queen to the joust! LOL Of course, I just had to say "Yes"! ;)
There was a vendor there whom makes custom swords of folded steel, lifetime guarantee. No fancy details anywhere, but just gorgeous in their simplicity and... well there's something really special about really well-worked steel. Always wanted one.
Sadly, Age of Armour is going out of business due to health concerns. He made some awesome armour and there are some pictures around the web of hin sporting his armour in joust tournaments. What a guy! And when he used to frequent the Carrara forum, he really was a super nice guy. I hope he's okay :(
It's cool! Garstor left us for LightWave
. But we're still very good friends - he visits fairly often considering how far away he lives (now in Canada). He, evilproducer, Wendy and I have grown a life-long friendship and always stay in touch with each other - almost every day.
I feel as if ALL of us here are friends. Sometimes I might strongly oppose someone's opinion of Carrara or some such... but it doesn't make me like them any less - that's what family does, right? I just love it here. It's the only forum that I frequent like this. Just be careful... I'm a hugger! Ask Garstor and evilproducer!!!
The Three Carrarateers Raid Mad Town!
evilproducer (left) and me
Garstor and evilproducer
Lots of Fun!!!
I live near Leeds in the UK which has the Royal Armouries, and they stage regular jousts through the summer months. I haven't got an image of lances breaking - too busy just enjoying the moment! - but here is one which shows the armour and horses. And yes, it makes quite a noise!
Hugging is always good lol. I do feel like most people here are just awesome. I'm difficult to upset anyway and I don't mind a spirited discussion of pros and cons lol. There are several people here that I also generally speak to every day or close to it. I will say this is by far one of the nicest and most helpful forums I have run across. You all look like you are having a blast, wherever you are lol.
Wow! Cool! I have to drive the whole height of my state to get to the closest event like this - but it does go on all summer. No castles though! LOL
That is very cool PhilW. I think it would be awesome to see something like that. Not sure if they have any of that in Ohio at all lol. I know they have medieval recreations but not sure if they do the actual jousting. Will have to go look it up.
Cool! I like hugging! ;)
Yeah, sometimes I wish I had thicker skin. My pal, chohole, has to rescue me from blowing my top every once in a while - perhaps delete a post or two before I get into too much trouble! LOL She's a hugger too - at least with her words, she is! Sometimes I'll work for hours and hours to help solve an issue. Hours. Then someone comes along and says something like I should do a better job of answering
I mean... we don't get paid for our passion, so it really shouldn't come with a warantee, right? 
Yeah... I need to learn to just let stuff like that roll off and away.
But most everyone here never treats me like that. So I'm almost always just happy!
That has always looked a bit dangerous to me. I did reenactment, but, strangely enough for a Brit, I did American Civil War reenactment. Have seen the medieval guys and the sealed knot, and both made ACW seem quite tame, even though we did get to play with guns and cannons and explosive charges and make lots of noise that way. Because I was slim I could get away with being a soldier boy, and ended up as the colour bearer (we were a rebel unit of course) which is actually no sinecure, as capture the flag is always a good game, and you can't really carry a rifle or musket when also carrying the flag. Nothing on those guys in their armour though, I enjoyed watching, did not want to take part.
I try very hard to show my appreciation when someone tries to help me. Its inconceivable to me when people are rude to people trying to help or don't bother to come back and say thank you. I am always happy to help when I can because to me, its paying back some of the help that I have recieved as well.
Sadly, I would never pass for a male soldier, but I would probably make a fine tavern wench lol. I do have to say that a lot of the medieval clothing would fit my body type very well. Too bad its not in fashion anymore lol.
It sound like it would be a lot of fun to do a re enactment. Civil war re enactments I have seen, and they are very interesting. And those cannon are LOUD!
don't want to derail, but a sneak peek. This was a play around one, not a real big one. Done for Charity, as most of our battles were.