Let's Go on a Prop Hunt! (yes, another)
JOdel
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This time I am looking for a bottle of ink. Something like india ink, with the squeeze-top eyedropper cap. The kind of bottle of ink that you would buy in an art supply store. Preferably a glass bottle so you can see the well of ink inside. But I'd certainly accept one with a label.
I can find plenty of open ink bottles or ink bottles with a cork stopper. But nothing with the eyedropper cap. And it's something with the eyedropper cap I am in need of. The scene is with drafting tools. You don't dip a ruling pen. You load it with the eyedropper. Just the eyedropper would probably do in a pinch.
Anyone know where I could find one. It doesn't have to be free, although that would be appreciated.
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Would one of these work (you could probably change the label fairly easy)? https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-model/eyedropper
Some at Turbo: https://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Index.cfm?FuseAction=SEOTokenizeSearchURL&blFGSearch=1&stgURlFragment=3d-model/eyedropper (sort by lower price)
Also:
https://3docean.net/item/dropper-bottle/12087171
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/science/laboratory/dropper-bottle
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/science/medical/dropper-bottle-d3436237b41523f0c988c99f1ce91653
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/science/laboratory/eye-drop-dropper-vape-bottle
Does the eyedropper need to have a squeezable bulb?
So far, I've only seen the old-timey kind of ink bottles with the quill and such. I'll keep an eye for the modern ones.
I've got a dropper I was making for another project...I guess I could whip up a bottle to go with it.
Found one. It is lightwave (lwo) format (which could be converted to obj) and little pricey ($23) for a bottle but an actual eydropper ink bottle: https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/higgins-ink-bottle-3d-model/164302
I found an eyedropper along with some other lab equipment on ShareCg. I've no idea why it hadn't come up before, since it's been there for 7 years. And I had looked.
It's .obj and has no matt zones. But that's easy enough to deal with in the geometry editor. Even though it's all built in tris.
No ink bottle though. But I can use the one from the Mage tower now that I have an eyedropper to load the ruling pen.
Those medical bottles look very good. But since I found what I needed as a freebie I'll just make a note of the sites.
And, thanks for the offer mjc1016, but don't interupt your own work for this. I imagine a bottle of india ink is the kind of thing that no one knows they need until the need is stareing them in the face.
ETA: Yeah. Higgens is one of the brands that you find in art stores. (couldn't see the image since the page comes up with the image area blank. But I'd be willing to guess that it's what I was talking about.)
Odd. The image comes up fine for me in IE11.
You know there's a slightly more old-fashioned one in my Moneylender Tools...
https://www.daz3d.com/moneylender-tools
Yes. Good shape of the bottle. No eyedropper cap though. Ah well, I've finished the render. If I redo it I'll use the moneylender bottle. (I do have that one, didn't have it in the library with the writing tools though.)
Found it! I knew I had made one at some point. It's in Everyday Toiletries