-Insignias & Military

[bergerud]

Welcome to the forum, try:

http://forum.carvewright.com/showthr...172#post166172

[oscarl48]

I am in the planning phase of designing my coin display holder. For sure I want to have the different weapon systems I was part of during my career. I have not finalized what the design will be. I tried one idea this weekend but the carvings I did were so small they lost all detail so that design will not work. But wanted to share some of designs as I make them. The first weapon platform was the FB-111. I was a very young troop in a flight line back shop in a land far, far away.

[want2b]

Must have been quite an experience being able to work with something that awesome. Looks like it will be a nice carve. Will save it against the day I have the needed software version to use it. Makes one realise how much the weaponery has changed since my day.
Thanks for sharing, Thanks for serving.
Rick H

[easybuilt]

Nice job on the design and I look forward to seeing your final project! Thanks for serving our country!

[oscarl48]

Thank you for supporting the troops. For us old guys it was all good...except for when it wasn't.

So next is the C-130. Workhorse of the Air Force.

I build the models using blender 3d and then either use the bas relief filter or I play with lighting and try to see which one comes out better. Not quite happy but may be good enough. I'll see how it carves this weekend. I am a novice at all of this so not perfect in any way. I'm including the image I used to "Import Image File" into designer. I am hoping you can use that regardless of version of designer owned. I have previously posted designs for UH1-N and B-52. Though they both need further work. I'll have to see how they fit in with the current batch of carvings I am making.

I have one more last image design I have left to build after all that...Delta 2 medium lift rocket. I'll work on that tomorrow.

My last few weapon systems are fairly unique and I don't believe would be of much interest but please let me know and I can post the designs I have made. Minuteman3 rocket and gravity bomb.

[Geomoo1]

I had a request for the FOP pattern, so here it is...

FOP.ptn

[oscarl48]

I went back to an old model and gave it the stl import treatment. What a difference from my first attempt. I guess having the right tools makes up for not having any skills. lol.

The model is still not quite right so I cheated with optimizing the bit which means a longer carve but the result (at least on the screen) looks promising. The rotor blades on the original were too thin so I thickened them up a bit...too much? Let me know if they looked weird and I can reduce the thickness a little bit.

I originally did this model for my Huey brothers. I will be carving this one again. I think this in the shot glass holder project will be an awesome gift. I know they will probably want to add some guns to it.

[Gary Koval]

Oscarl48,
I will carve this when the weather improves, as all my carving is done in the garage. I have fond memories of flying on several with my companion "Bon" "1S85" my over 120lb., German Shepard, while in the Army.
Thank you,
Gary

[CarverJerry]

Hey oscarl48, can you convert this to 1.187 version so others who don't have the new version of designer can view it and maybe carve it. Thanks

[eelamb]

Jerry download the PTN file, any version can open that file.