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- This is a model of the Armoured Personnel Carrier from Aliens, modelled with
- Imagine 2.0, using the Halcyon model kit for measurements. It was modelled
- on a 2 meg Amiga 500+ crawling along at 7.14MHz. Amazing eh?
- It's big, so I haven't got a clue what the finished model looks like, but
- rather than trim it down, I thought all you lovely Imagineers would like it
- in its entirety. I haven't got the lights quite right either.
-
- Details:-
-
- The light on the roof (ROOFLIGHT) flashes white now and again. In the
- film, where the APC first makes an appearance, the roof light flashes twice
- for some reason.
- The wheels.. err ... spin, as you'd expect, and the front ones should
- steer by rotating about their Z-axes.
- The front chainguns should rotate between 45 degrees left and 90 degrees
- right. The ends (if you want to be really accurate) should rotate too.
- The rear gun hasn't actually got any holes in the barrel. Whoops. I
- forgot. Anyway, I think it is a Smart Gun (laser),like the ones Drake and
- Vasquez use in the film (or the sentry units), so plenty of muzzle flash and
- recoil. To slide it down the back of the APC:-
- 1) Select GUNPLATFORM. Translate it 26.6846 along its Y-axis.
- 2) While it's doing that, select REARGUNMAIN and rotate -90 about its Z-axis
- 3) Rotate GUNPLATFORM -90 about X-axis
- 4) Translate GUNPLATFORM down by 5 (5 along its Y-axis)
- See the film for a better description of the motion.
- The headlights and searchlight should be conical light sources, the side
- and rear lights should be spherical.
-
- You can do what the hell you like with it (short of passing it off as your
- own work, of course. Or selling it for profit) as long as:-
- a) 20th Century Fox don't object
- b) You give me a mention as the creator.
- If you create a picture or animation of the APC that you're particularly
- proud of, then please upload it to aminet, because I'd love to see what the
- finished model really looks like.
-
- Other projects:-
- Treehawk-from Gerry Anderson's "TerraHawks".
- The model is finished, and a (crap) render is included in this archive.
- Requires 3 meg (a guess) to render, and has extendable landing gear and
- opening wings. If you're wondering how a 2 meg machine managed to render a 3
- meg+ model, well, I rendered all the bits separately and stuck them
- together.
-
- Imperial Star Destroyer-Brushmapless at the moment but not for long. Renders
- in 2 meg (just). Modelled using the MPC model kit for guidance. Will not
- render in 2 megs when it is brushmapped, that's for certain. (Not too hot)
- pictures included.
-
- TerraHawk-from "Terrahawks". Tiltable wings and moving legs (looks a bit
- like a bird, you see). Still got the brushmaps to do. Renders in 2 meg
- without maps, 3 meg+ with.
-
- Crypt Ship-I went for something different here, and modelled a ship from
- Frank Hampson's drawings in "The Man From Nowhere", a Dan Dare story from
- the old "Eagle" comic. Model finished and mapped. Picture included. Renders
- in 2 megs (just).
-
- These models are coming soon to aminet.
-
- Future projects will include:-
- Zeroid from Terrahawks
- SPV from "Captain Scarlet"
- Dropship from Aliens (with lots of details)
- Snowspeeder from The Empire Strikes Back and
- Insects-Ants, Mantids
- Arachnids-Spiders, Scorpions
-
- An X-Wing will be next, probably.
-
- Email me on sce@cs.man.ac.uk if you have any comments, or suggestions for
- models (models-2-order, if you like).
-
- Enjoy.
-
- Simon C. Embley
-