Here’s my Sleeping Beauty Castle diorama. It’s been sitting on my shelf for almost two months, and it’s still not finished. I still need to add water, trees, and maybe some low shrubbery. But, I thought I’d take some quick photos of it in its current state, then update the photos whenever I get around to finishing it. I still want to visit that hobby store that I found onlineāI much prefer to view things in person prior to buying. But, with the price of gasoline, I don’t drive to as many places as often as I used to.
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The Skyway bucket paper model is here! This is the very first model that was designed entirely in Blender. I’ve only ridden the real thing once or twice before it was shut down, and the sights were amazing. Ah, memories . . .
Here are the current collection of 634 icons. This doesn’t include the 300+ icons that are in separate, specialized folders. If you look quickly, you can see the Pirates of the Caribbean system icons in use on the Desktop. I have no doubt that many of you will be pausing the video many, many times to see what I’m holding out on.
I may post other videos in the coming months. Maybe I’ll do a time-lapse vid of designing an icon from scratch, or maybe a time-lapse of designing a new paper model in 3-D. Who knows.
Oh, and ignore the corny Last Starfighter music. I was in a good mood, and that music randomly popped up on my playlist.












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