Post by The Hegemon on Apr 10, 2023 23:35:30 GMT
Here's a rendering of 1999's 9255 Mine Digger, a long-time favorite of mine, even if the style is very blokky by today's standards.
I loved this little set because of the colors and the parts, and I've always had a soft spot for that windscreen and the 4x2x4 cones.
But the reason that I'm posting the render now is that I've finally completed a workable DAT-file of the wheel, part M1152.DAT.
Because of the surface geometry, in particular the way those treads interact with the cylindrical and spherical portions of the wheel, it's evaded me for decades. But I really dug in and managed at last to come up with a reasonably serviceable version.
So here it is, the 9255 Mine Digger (figure not rendered):
As you can see, the wheels are still pixelated, but the result isn't too terrible IMO.
Thanks for looking!
I loved this little set because of the colors and the parts, and I've always had a soft spot for that windscreen and the 4x2x4 cones.
But the reason that I'm posting the render now is that I've finally completed a workable DAT-file of the wheel, part M1152.DAT.
Because of the surface geometry, in particular the way those treads interact with the cylindrical and spherical portions of the wheel, it's evaded me for decades. But I really dug in and managed at last to come up with a reasonably serviceable version.
So here it is, the 9255 Mine Digger (figure not rendered):
As you can see, the wheels are still pixelated, but the result isn't too terrible IMO.
Thanks for looking!
