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Jun

by admin

So, I’ve come up with another idea for an adventure for Operation:Fallen Reich that I call Cricket and Crocodiles, and for that I need a Cricket bat.

Also, this will be the last of the frequent everyday posts as summer is almost here and I won’t be able to post as much during summertime. I will still post from time to time, so if you want to avoid missing anything, active are RSS feed.

This is my goal, but a 1930 look of it, with no fancy paintwork at all.

So, start Cheetah3D and create a box.

Now, stretch it like a piece of plank.

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I used some Beveling and also a Boolean union to attach a flattened cylinder to it, but I forgot to snap shot those, mostly because I did it several times as it looked awful the first ten tries. Anyway, now create a cylinder for the handle.

We use the Taper tool to taper it, first we give it a waist.

Then the make the rear bump a little larger.

Now, using a huge stretched sphere, we use a Boolean intersect to cut the edge of the bat a little rounded.

We do the same thing on the other side, the handle side,

Now, using FilterForge and the plywood filter, we create a wood texture for the bat.

Then I needed some bat handle tape, and as no one have made a bat handle tape texture filter, I had to do it. The texturemap

And the bump map. The moire patterns are due to the very fine graining of the bump map, and the scaling to fit here.

Now, I fed the wood texture through the Cheetah3D texture generator and added some dirt and bumps to it.

And here is the bat.

I think it is a worthy end of this very long every day posting, now go out and play kids.
I have a list of things I need to make for the next adventure, but I’ll see when I have time to make them. Have a nice summer folks!

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