Modding The 55 Tram to Rapture - Update 4 OCT Scaling

I never had to worry about such stuff. I have access to a mountain of drafting and cartography rulers. some of them come with little spaced holes in them for making lines to put text on. (usually the drafting text templates have them. Do people still even use that kind of stuff?)

 

Only us old Sketchup impaired individuals. I use my drawing board a lot.

 

What's Sketchup?

 

The red stuff that goes on cheeseburgers and American put on their french fries?

 

Waiting for copyright holders and video game producers is really chapping my hide! Days without response. I Want To Mod!

 

Last time I checked, You can get away with quite a bit. If I remember right, the rule in phototouching is ~80% modified makes it yours, and not an infringement. It's pretty abstract, and a real hard-*ss corporation, (look out for the big D) would go after you anyway.
Since you are not selling a product, but making a homage to 'it', you can get away with a lot.
-but then again, some companies will let kids draw their characters, then turn around and sue someone for having a copyrighted user name.
Getting legal permission from a major corporation is like trying to pet a polar bear. You already know what will happen.
Your best bet is to carry on and refer to the game as, "That which cannot be named," or "the thing with the stuff, and that thing."
-an extended game of vague naming and description could be fun too. Some of my favorite words have been created that way.

 

That's pretty much what I'm doing. The design is generic enough that a small tweak one way or another could produce a steampunk style or change a little here or there and you would have Buck Rodgers meet H.G. Wells.

I've started on the full scale drawings. The rivets and other Victorianand spacey greebly bits will follow.
Full tower case is large and lots to work with.

 

I have been given permission from the original artist - Ben Mauro - to try and replicate one of his design ideas in 3D form.
I have begun.

 

Congrats! Can't wait to see how this turns out.

 

Going to be fun. Borrowing a lot from Milotica and Ranlai.

I'm forming up some 0.080 flat plastic sheets for some stuff and the hard part is going to be rivets. Lots and lots of rivets. Blow up of low res art work. High res coming. Ben Mauro seems more than happy to help. It's his design.



Panel rivets, vertical seam rivets, rivets on all sufaces. Oh, and simulated welds on parts and patches added. Field repair kind of thing - like military tanks and armor.

I haz a happy!

 

You wouldn't happen to be doing something like this would you?

Source: www.artofben.com

 

I'm trying, yes. Ben sent me high res copy of that image to work from this morning.

john

 

Good lord, this I REALLY want to see!

 

Mnpctech - Bill has his alien case personal project and I have this. The tower case has been sitting beside my chair as an endtable forever waiting.

Radiator in the box section above the main case, reservoir in the turbine section at the bottom.

Ben Mauro does some nice drawings and we talk about what he envisioned for where.

Be fun

john

 

Images from Ben this AM.

 

Ooh! I'd do the final design cab, but keep the 'feet' matching like the 2nd concept pic.
This will be so awesome. I worry that the modifications on the rocketfish to make the rounded underbelly might be a bit much for you.
...Why am I assuming you will make an exact copy?

 

Ben does some impressive stuff. There is another one coming. The Tram in a station. It kind of shows what Ben calls the motive power. Looks kind of like a futuristic train track.

You know the case doesn't have to be modded much. It could be made to slide into the Tram skin.
OR:
The bottom roundness wouldn't be a problem using the fiberglas over foam method. Smaller than some car body parts I've fabbed with glass.

john

 

I'm thinking thick-walled PVC pipe would work for the base frame.

 

that look so cool.