THE AQUARIUM (All underwater creatures).

[shiftdel]

Originally Posted by JohnM

Nice clean builds there Shiftdel.

They deserve to be posed into a background picture.

Thnaks Johnny, I thought about that, but I have not enough PS skill to do that :(

BTW, this is the book cover:


I am currently building the Fiddler Crab in 1:1 scale (the model on the book is larger, so I reduced it to the right scale). It is a kind of boring job, with all those small segments of the legs, but I hope I can finish it soon...

[Pat_craft]

Originally Posted by Vermin_King

Those are some of Patrick's models that he uses in illustrations for his books ... I think.

You're right Vermin King !

[JohnM]

Originally Posted by Pat_craft

You're right Vermin King !

Are they available to download at all Pat, or do the models come with the book?

Johnny.

[JohnM]

[QUOTE=shiftdel;450831]Thnaks Johnny, I thought about that, but I have not enough PS skill to do that :(/QUOTE]

I don't use PS at all. I simply mount the fish on a wire in front of this back drop stage...



The photo is then opened in paint.net, trimmed to size, and the suspension wire pixel edited out like so ....



This is a Kei Craft fish. I can't get a translation from the Japanes. VK calls it a Sculpin, but I suspect it's what we call a Weaver fish in Europe. Very painful sting if you stand on one. Bin there, done that!



This is another Kei Craft model. Looks like a Catfish to me.

Keep on snippin' ... Johnny.

PS: Is there an ISP number on that book Shiftdel? I'd like to get a copy.

[Pat_craft]

Originally Posted by JohnM

Are they available to download at all Pat, or do the models come with the book?

Johnny.

They are part of the papermodels book "Endangered animals", my first book as papermodel illustrator but now I am not very proud of it... If I must do it again, some models will be better...

[shiftdel]

Originally Posted by JohnM

I don't use PS at all. I simply mount the fish on a wire in front of this back drop stage...

PS: Is there an ISP number on that book Shiftdel? I'd like to get a copy.

Hmm, I think I can do something like that, good idea...

I found this ISBN: 9573251132, but it is hard to find. I bought mine from a Chinese site years ago.

[JohnM]

Originally Posted by shiftdel

Hmm, I think I can do something like that, good idea...

I found this ISBN: 9573251132, but it is hard to find. I bought mine from a Chinese site years ago.

Thanks for the number. It doesn't bring anything up on Amazon UK, Europe, or USA, but it is listed on few Chinese sites. I'll have to mail them for translation and export terms.

Johnny.

[shiftdel]

OK, After YEARS (yes, i meant YEARS) building this, I finally was able to finish it yesterday. The Fiddler Crab, from "Make My own Ocean Animals" book

It is a bit trick to build (the crab shell), and boring (all 16 leg sections), so, it was always at the end of my priority list of builds, that´s why it took me that long to buiild.

But I like the final result, very lifelike, it is a 1:1 model reduced from the original; although I should have done better with the legs, only 5 of the 8 legs are actually touching the ground...

I could not print a decent ocean scene yet, to use the technique from JohnM, so it still have to walk on wook...

[airdave]

Heres a Shark





and a Stingray




and a Barracuda

[shiftdel]

My wife gave me the idea to shot it on our living room carpet, looks like sand... well, a bit at least, better than wood



Like that shark