Roleplaying
What is docks without a crane? Like a burger without dressing, or a role playing game without dice and miniatures. So, I will make a medieval crane over the next few days.
First, I googled around to see what the Internet had to say about things, and I found these two images.
This is a replica some museum has built. What caught my interest was the “hamster wheel” where you operate the crane. Then I found this picture, also from a museum which was a construction drawing of another crane, also having the hamster wheel, but two of them.
I though that this drawing would be a perfect drawing to build from, so it was time to fire up Cheetah3D and start to build. Starting out with a box.
Shaping that box as a pole, making it exactly 4 units high and 0.1 unit wide, I would be doing things with presition this time.
Now, placing the pole in one corner of my imaginary 4 units x 4 units square, I now could start to build.
Here we have something, all corners. I would later shrink the square to 3×3 for proportions, but this is how it looked when I started. Now, following the drawing, I made the lower side bars first.
Then the upper one, using the lower ones but rotated 180 degrees along the z-axis.
Here is the framework as it looked when I’ve just placed the cross bars, not adjusted them along the y-axis as in the drawing, where some are so be below the others.
And here is the render from the work of day one, using a simple built in wood texture generator.
Tomorrow we will continue with the crane.
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