I've just put the sales thread up in the Junkyard.
Foundation Prime Radiant
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MarvelMeteor07
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How do you get to the junkyard ?
I'm going on a tangent here but since we're among Foundation fans, have you guys ever seen the 3D model of Hari Seldon's statue? And/ or a rough idea of how much time it would take to model. I have tried AI tools converting pictures to 3D model but we are not there yet unfortunately.
You could probably do it in Blender.
Thank you, but you are greatly overestimating my Blender skills 
Last time I tried a simple model on Blender, it was so hell to export it into a 3D-printable format that I just redid the whole thing on Fusion360
(btw I didn't say it in my initial post but your radiant looks really fantastic, a pleasure to see)
Last time I tried a simple model on Blender, it was so hell to export it into a 3D-printable format that I just redid the whole thing on Fusion360(btw I didn't say it in my initial post but your radiant looks really fantastic, a pleasure to see)
Thank you for the compliment.Thank you, but you are greatly overestimating my Blender skills
(btw I didn't say it in my initial post but your radiant looks really fantastic, a pleasure to see)
What about a more organic type sculpting took like Sculptors?
Sorry my mistake I think autocorrect changed that. It should be Sculptris.
renaissance_man is spot on. Blender actually has fairly robust "clay-like" sculpting tools these days. It's not Zbrush or Mudbox by any stretch (yet) but from what I've been told by those who have tried the Blender sculpting tools, you can get pretty far. (Just don't try to raise the polygon count to over 10-ish million. Blender will start to chug and struggle, even on a very fast rig.)You could probably do it in Blender.
Thank you, but you are greatly overestimating my Blender skills
(btw I didn't say it in my initial post but your radiant looks really fantastic, a pleasure to see)
I don't know what kind of model you were doing catiuso but exporting to STL from Blender is super-easy, at least with the latest version.
Thank you for your answer! Do you have the name of the Blender tool top of mind?
Well I did a simple extrusion of a Bézier curve (so I did the curve, filled it, then extruded it) and then removed a parallelepiped piece from it. But because it is mesh-based, the piece was not properly "filled", like there were random empty sub-surfaces or on the contrary some segments created between 2 points that shouldn't be there. I was soooo much more of a breeze and simpler on Fusion360 (caveat: I was new to both Blender and Fusion360 back then, just used SolidWorks in another life)
Well I did a simple extrusion of a Bézier curve (so I did the curve, filled it, then extruded it) and then removed a parallelepiped piece from it. But because it is mesh-based, the piece was not properly "filled", like there were random empty sub-surfaces or on the contrary some segments created between 2 points that shouldn't be there. I was soooo much more of a breeze and simpler on Fusion360 (caveat: I was new to both Blender and Fusion360 back then, just used SolidWorks in another life)
Maybe best taken in PM so as not to mess up this thread but it kinda sounds like you're applying solid-modeling think to mesh-modeling, which doesn't always work! (Maybe you didn't actually freeze the solid into a mesh.)
Jaime you missed the opportunity to tap and flourish before the reveal lol
BakedPotatos
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A couple years late to this board but love the replica you made, came out very nice! If you happen to be making more ever I’d be interested in purchasing one off the junkyard for sure to add to my replicas! Love the books and excited for season 3 to hopefully come out this year!
Thank you for the compliment, it's a labour of love to make them but they are very tricky to perfect with the unforgiving clear resin.
I can't wait for season 3 too, I hope the recent behind the scenes changes don't impact the show too much and that we can have at least 4 or 5 seasons.
neil75
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any idea about making more? thanks
Not at the moment.
This prop is a very tricky one to nail each time. A labour intensive piece that requires absolute precision to prevent air bubbles.
