Scale modelers have the skill sets, talent, enthusiasm and patience to become 3D modelers. Learn how a scale modeler uses 3D modeling to enhance and add more fun to his hobby.

1. 1:72 Scale Model 3D Model MODELING Finished 3D Model RENDERING RESEARCH TEXTURE MAP Eagle Quest XIX 2010 Modeling History in 3D

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

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. ...definitely seeing this in 3D!

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

12. Games Can you name the games?

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

14. 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

15. My Background and Early Work

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

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

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

19. Dogfight 1:32 Monogram P-38 Lightning

20. Dogfight animation

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

22. The Alamo / renders

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

24. Planetoids

25. SciFi Movie

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

27. Teaching 3D Caligari Truespace (1998)

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

29. WWI Flying Ace & his Sopwith Camel

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

31. Strata 3D Interface – 3 views

32. Rendering options

33. Raytracing

34. Animation path and timeline

35. Lucky Lindy animation

36. Lucky Lindy at the controls … done with Photoshop later 

37. Research PBY Catalina

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

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

40. “ Backgrounds, backgrounds and backgrounds” … real stuff shot from airliners

41. Backgrounds Photos … clouds found on the Internet

42. Backgrounds Vista Pro / Eastern Front … .with 1:35 Russian T-34

43. Backgrounds Vista Pro / Photoshop

44. Backgrounds Bryce / Pacific

45. Backgrounds Bryce / Atlantic

46. Backgrounds Vista Pro / Aspen … .uses topographical maps

47. 3D Background w/scale model

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

49. You can use scale model instructions as a guide

50. How to make a 5” gun

51. 5” gun parts – exploded view

52. Extrude - turret

53. Lathe - gun

54. Paint/texture-map the parts

55. Fletcher parts and subassemblies … cloning objects

56. “Fletcher at sea”

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

58. Fletcher at “Battle of Midway”

59. “Using pre-made models” Viewpoint Datalabs

60. Star Wars .dxf files X-Wing Wireframe

61. Star Wars X-Wing Rendered

62. Star Wars … I customized the Tie Fighter

63. Star Trek

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

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

66. U-boat on surface … in Bryce Atlantic

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

68. “Texture-mapping” P-40

69. Basics of Texture-mapping

70. Flying Tiger Texture-map

71. P-40 naked and clothed

72. “Tigers on the Prowl”

73. 3D People PT-109

74. PT-109 in tub

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

76. PT-109 crew … .Konley Kelley at Lt. John F. Kennedy

77. PT-109 crew on deck

78. PT-109 Stern

79. “D-Day”

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

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

82. 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”

83. My Gallery “Inspiration”

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

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

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

87. Real or 3D?

88. F-14 Tomcat …” Jolly Rogers”

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

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

91. Operation Desert Storm

92. Abrams in Action … combine your 3D models in action!

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

94. Apache Helicopter My Apache scale model met with an accident

95. Abrams shoots!

96. Bent-wing Birds

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

98. Corsair victory

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

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

101. Stuka 3D model Ju87 Stuka

102. Stuka animated

103. Sahara M3 Lee Tank

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

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

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

107. M3 Tank (reference/make parts) Real thing Scale model 3D model

108. 3D M3 Lee tank naked and clothed

109. M3 Lee Tank in action

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

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

112. Bismarck Pool Trials 1:350 Tamiya DKM Bismarck

113. Bismarck Parts

114. Bismarck Bow

115. Bismarck Stern

116. Bismarck Guns Battle of the Denmark Strait May 22, 1941

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

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

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

120. Bismarck under attack (from what?

121. Swordfish in the kitchen … oops…masking tape

122. Swordfish minus kitchen … use Photoshop to isolate the Swordfish/torpedo

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

124. Tirpitz Bismarck’s sister ship

125. Tirpitz fires!

126. Tirpitz tests

127. Jet in a Weekend ME262

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

129. ME262 in Action … with 3D B-17G Flying Fortresses

130. “Nose Art” B-24J Liberator

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

132. “ Tall, Torrid and Texas” Nose Art … thanks google image search

133. “ Tall, Torrid and Texas” Texture-Map Texture map / Wireframe / Rendered model

134. B24 and ME262 Scale Models 1:48 Monogram ME262 1:72 Academy B-24J Liberator

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

136. “B24 vs. ME262”

137. “Whitney Field” 3D Airfield and Flight Museum

138. “The Story of Whitney Field” … parked at Lucy Airport

139. Texan at Whitney Field … parked at Whitney Field

140. Whitney Field interface

141. P-40 Landing

142. Tower and Hanger One

143. Tower One and P-40

144. P-40

145. Jeep and tents

146. Lulubelle guarding latrine … not on my website

147. B-25 Mitchell

148. Administration Building

149. Admin Building and Compound

150. C-47

151. Dodge Ambulance … Easter Egg

152. Whitney and the Ammo Dump

153. Hanger Two What is in Hanger Two?

154. Whitney Field Flight Museum

155. Virtual Flight Museum … Internet interface “ Twilight Zone metaphor”

156. F4U Corsair

157. Ju87 Stuka

158. F14A Tomcat

159. F4F Wildcat

160. PBY Catalina

161. Spirit of St. Louis

162. M3 Lee Tank … just like the Cavanaugh Flight Museum

163. To Helicopters

164. 3D Helicopters … redirects to sections on my website

165. To Art Gallery … grab a Coke!

166. Whitney Field Art Gallery … another way to redirect visitors to other parts of my website – and a way to e-mail me

167. Rafe and Danny play chicken

168. M*A*S*H in 3D

169. M*A*S*H 11 years, 251 episodes, 14 Emmy’s Original cast Final cast

170. M*A*S*H Research Fox Ranch Camp Set Exteriors Malibu State Park, CA *Not South Korea

171. M*A*S*H Scale Models 1:35 Academy Bell UH1 Helicopter 1:35 Italieri Dodge Ambulance

172. M*A*S*H Camp Layout … MASH Camp Layout found on the Internet

173. M*A*S*H Camp Layout in 3D

174. M*A*S*H in 3D

175. M*A*S*H Signpost … 3D signpost created using texture maps pulled from image of actual MASH signpost on display at the Smithsonian

176. M*A*S*H

179. SFP Posters for sale Most posters shipped to you for around $25.00