I created this presentation for a youth Robotics Camp at Richland College held in August, 2012

1. 1:72 Scale Model 3D Model
MODELING
Finished 3D Model
RENDERING
RESEARCH
TEXTURE MAP

2. Not historically accurate…

3. Historically accurate…

4. www.shortfuse3d.com
Presenter, Konley Kelley
Avid modeler / enthusiast
Scale and 3D models
…published!

5. Are you ready?
Put on your 3D glasses now!

6. 3D in movies…cool!
…just kidding

7. 3D in movies Can you name the movies?
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Digital Domain, WETA Digital

8. Pixar
Can you name the movies?

9. John Lasseter Pixar founder / Director of TOY STORY
…he signed this poster for me on the back of a limo

10. TV
…tell Coca Cola Polar Bears story
Can you name the TV shows and commercials?
Ally McBeal’s “Dancing Baby”

11. Games Can you name the games?

12. How games used to look…
…Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

13. Myst
Created by two brothers, Robyn and Rand Miller
Top selling PC game from 1993 – 2002
Inspiration for the TV show LOST
3D made with Strata 3D

14. My Background and Early Work

15. American Film Institute
… my 3D model of AFI

16. “Hollyweird”
Volunteer/seat filler
Katie, me, Moses and Mickey

17. P-38 Lightning
… one of my first models at AFI (1996)

18. Dogfight
1:32 Monogram
P-38 Lightning

19. Dogfight animation

20. The Alamo in 3D
… made this while living in LA (1996)

21. The Alamo / renders

22. The Line in the Sand
What did the Daughters of the Republic of Texas
think of my 3D Alamo? Caretakers of the Alamo.

23. Planetoids

24. SciFi Movie

25. Wanted: 3D artist
…showers and beds (1997)

26. Teaching 3D
Caligari Truespace (1998)

27. 3D Model Kit
Who was the Red Baron’s greatest adversary?
A dusty
Revell 1:28
Fokker Dr.1

28. WWI Flying Ace & his Sopwith Camel

29. How is it done? “Spirit of St. Louis”

30. Strata 3D Interface – 3 views

31. Rendering options

32. Raytracing

33. Animation path and timeline

34. Lucky Lindy animation

35. Research PBY Catalina

36. Scale model and reference books
….use the Internet for research!

37. “Enemy Carriers!”
...Lt. “Howie” Ady’s PBY “Strawberry 5”

38. “Build the model” USS Fletcher DD-445

39. You can use scale model
instructions as a guide

40. How to make a 5” gun

41. 5” gun parts – exploded view

42. Extrude - turret

43. Lathe - gun

44. Paint/texture-map the parts

45. Fletcher parts and subassemblies
…cloning objects

46. “Fletcher at sea”

47. “Fletcher at sea”

48. Fletcher at “Doolittle Raid”
….Internet research story

49. Fletcher at “Battle of Midway”

50. “Using pre-made models”
Viewpoint Datalabs

51. Star Wars
.dxf files
X-Wing Wireframe

52. Star Wars X-Wing Rendered

53. Star Wars
…I customized the Tie Fighter

54. Star Trek

55. Uh..oh..red shirt crewman
…before I ever heard of Photoshop

56. “Silent Hunter”
Viewpoint Datalabs
Revell
1:125
U-99

57. U-boat on surface
…in Bryce Atlantic

58. “Hunting the hunter”
…with 1:48 Monogram TBM Avenger

59. “Texture-mapping” P-40

60. Basics of Texture-mapping

61. Flying Tiger Texture-map

62. P-40 naked and clothed

63. “Tigers on the Prowl”

64. 3D People PT-109
What attacked Lt. Kennedy’s boat?

65. PT-109 in tub

66. PT-109 model
Monogram
1:72 PT-109

67. PT-109 crew
….Konley Kelley as Lt. John F. Kennedy

68. PT-109 crew on deck

69. PT-109 Stern

70. “D-Day”

71. “Curahee!”
101st
Airborne over Normandy
1:72 C-47

72. “Rendezvous with Destiny”
…transparency example (C-47 seen through parachute)

73. I want to make a King Tiger in 3D from scratch…
After seeing the “how to” what do you think?
1:35 King Tiger “Battle of the Bulge”

74. Time to show you some of my best stuff!

75. “USS Lexington Museum by the Bay”
3D USS Lexington

76. USS Lexington meets “Bazooka”
….take pictures / visual library of ship

77. Lexington 3D images
….Tomcats and Phantoms…accuracy Revell model kit

78. Real or 3D?

79. F-14 Tomcat
…”Jolly Rogers”

80. Battleship Texas
Another Scout trip…so did I make a 3D Battleship Texas?

81. Battlecar Texas
…Pinewood Derby car with 1:350 Banner USS Arizona parts

82. Operation Desert Storm

83. Abrams & Apache in Action
…combine your 3D models in action!

84. Abrams in Action
…used real Abrams blast
for 3D model diorama
Abrams
Scale
Model

85. Abrams shoots!

86. Bent-wing Birds

87. F4U Corsair
…combined with Zero I made a long time ago

88. Corsair victory

89. Corsairs and the “Big E”

90. F4U Corsair – Korean War
New texture map
Real Corsair
at Vought Aircraft
1:48 scale model

91. M*A*S*H
Find Radar’s Teddy Bear
1:35 Dodge Ambulance

92. “Snake” Stuka – my favorite model
….which one is 3D and which one is a scale model?

93. Stuka texture-map
…use decal sheets to make texture maps – SCAN BEFORE PUTTING ON MODEL

94. Stuka 3D model
Ju87 Stuka

95. Stuka animated

96. Sahara M3 Lee Tank

97. “Sahara” 1943 film
starring Humphrey Bogart
So let’s build a
scale model tank!

98. No…this isn’t Bogey’s tank!
My wife built this. She calls it “Beverly Hills Tank.”

99. M3 Lee Tank Scale Model
Sgt. Joe Gunn
reporting for duty!

100. What was Rommel’s nickname?
Hey Bogey, I’m thirsty!!

101. 3D M3 Lee tank naked and clothed

102. M3 Lee Tank in action

103. M3 Lee Tank in action
“Lulubelle” on the battlefield

104. That’s not good…

105. Sink the Bismarck!
…telling a story in scale and 3D

106. Bismarck Pool Trials
1:350 Tamiya DKM Bismarck

107. Bismarck Parts

108. Bismarck Guns
Scale model
HMS Hood
Battle of the Denmark Strait
May 22, 1941

109. Bismarck in Action
….with Prinz Eugen in the firing in the distance

110. Bismarck found by PBY
RAF PBY spots the Bismarck
….pose looks an awful lot like the other 3D PBY (smile)

111. HMS Ark Royal launches Swordfish
Mixing scales - 1:600 Airfix HMS Ark Royal and 1:48 Tamiya Fairey Swordfish

112. Swordfish attack the Bismarck
…appeared in FineScale Modeler, Dec. ’05
*Bismarck was 50,000 tons, Swordfish was 7,700 lbs.

113. Tirpitz
Bismarck’s sister ship
Let’s fire some 15 in guns!

114. Tirpitz fires!

115. Jet in a Weekend ME262

116. ME262 3D views
Under wing panel from an ME262 at the Historic Aviation
Memorial Museum, Tyler, Texas
German Ace Heinz Bar’s “Red 13”

117. ME262 in Action
…with 3D B-17G Flying Fortresses…SPEAKING OF BOMBERS

118. “Nose Art”
B-24J Liberator

119. Roy Grinnell, Artist of the Aces
B-24J Liberator “Tall, Torrid and Texas” - inspiration for this project

120. B-24D Liberator in Action
3rd
Place, 2010 DeSoto Art League Art Show
Photography/Digital Media category

121. “B24 vs. ME262”

122. Commemorative Air Force
B-24A Liberator “Diamond Lil”

123. “Diamond Lil” right/left side
Right Side
Left Side

124. “Diamond Lil” in 3D

125. “Diamond Lil” in 3D
First person to ever make a 3D model of a B-24A Liberator

126. “Diamond Lil” and “FIFI”

127. “The Goon” B-24D
1:48 B-24D
Scale Model
T/Sgt Arthur Benko, top turret gunner, 18 enemy aircraft shot down (record)

128. “The Goon” animated

129. Ploesti Raid
August 1, 1943
One third (53) aircraft lost / 310 aircrew killed, 108 captured
Five Medal of Honor* recipients (3 posthumously)
*Most for any single air action in history
SSgt. Robert Phillips
B-24 Top Turret Gunner
343rd
BG

130. P-51D Mustang “Cadillac of the
Sky”

131. Scale model P-51D Mustang

132. “The Brat III” with “FIFI”

133. “Red Nose” with “FIFI”

134. P-51 pilot – George Preddy
“Top Mustang Ace”
26.8 Air-to-Air Victories
Crew Chief was a barber in civilian life

135. “Tuskegee Airmen”

136. P-51 pilot Lt. Roscoe Brown, Jr.
332nd Fighter Group “Tuskegee Airmen”

137. Wanna see a Mustang fly?

139. Inspiration

140. “Diamond Lil” and “FIFI”
I am in here!

141. AWESOME!!!

143. C-45 Expeditor “Bucket of Bolts”
…also known as “BoB”
1:72 scale model

144. “FIFI” Texture maps

145. 3D, Real, Scale

146. Scale model, homemade decals
1:72 scale model

147. 3D “FIFI” takes flight

148. “FIFI” becomes the Enola Gay

149. Flying on “FIFI”

150. PLAY MOVIE
Flying in the nose of a Superfortress

151. Best part - meeting Veterans
James Clark, B-29 Bombardier
15 missions on B-29 “Black Magic”

152. B-29 “Goin’ Jessie” w/P-51’s
Charles Chauncey, B-29 Pilot in Command
Lt. Charles Chauncey
35 Missions
5th
BS/9th
BG
*Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross
3rd
Place, 2012 DeSoto Art League Art Show
Photography/Digital Media category

153. That’s the end of our “tail” for now

154. CAF B-29/B-24 Squadron Mtg., August 18, 2012
Warbirds on Parade, September 1, 2012,
Lancaster Airport
When they are home, see “FIFI” and “Diamond Lil” at
the Cavanaugh Flight Museum. Take a flight deck
tour! www.cavanaughflightmuseum.com
Learn more about the CAF at www.cafb29b24.org
Any questions? Grab my card.
Honor our Veterans. Hobby Lobby
Happy Modeling!