I’ve been busy working on a new kit, the castle kit, and I needed a ladder, so I quickly made a new one in Cheetah3D, and this is a quick how to.

So, we start up Cheetah3D, and create, guess what?, yes, a box.

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We reshape the box as a tall square pole, and set the polygons to pretty few, like 5 divides on each side.
We the n make it a editable polygon object, and use catmul subdivide, which will make it a little rouded.

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Now, we make a coy of the pole, move it one square to the left, and make a second copy of the pole, that we rotate 90 degrees and size to fit as steps.

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Now, we use the Array object, and repeat the step 10 times over the whole length of the ladder.

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o, we have a ladder, now we need s texture.

We fire up FilterForge and use a good wood filter, Wood Generator. Setting the texture to look a little worn, like this.

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So, here is our ladder, after render and adding show drop shadow using OmniGraffle.

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