Christmas is a holiday of mixed emotions for me, I lost a sister a few years ago on the 25th of December to drugs and since then, my life has never been the same. Feeling the coils of my own...
Thanks to Hines Design Labs, I cut a fresh cutting video for you. This time, it's the WoodMarvels.com Army Transport Truck! The video shows most of the cutting process on 6mm thick Birch plywood. Great job Angus! Army Transport Truck:...
Before I realized it, almost a quarter of December had passed and I hadn't even done a November review! November was an amazing month, highest traffic, payouts and sales... EVER! So, what happened at WoodMarvels.com over the past month of...
Vincent, the designer behind the really cool Frankenstein Ring has now added a new model to the 3DMarvels.com inventory. This is a really cool design as, depending at how you look at it, it seems to go off into infinity....
The 1911 Ford Model T Torpedo Runabout model that I built a while back and was showcased at multiple shows was a great project to design. As you can see, I applied the principals behind this engine block (layering) and...
My latest design, the Army Transport Truck, was a fun model to build and as you can see, the overall design was decided very early as I always decide to build based off the wheelbase, but it took several different...
This updated design of a wooden Army Transport Truck was a fun project to design but challenging to animate using reactor and other automated scripting tools but the end result looks far more realistic than anything I've made before. This...
I was very happy today when I got a heads-up that Fabbaloo, a blog that I enjoy now and then, did a review of 3DMarvels.com. You can read about it here: http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2010/11/21/3d-marvels.html I started 3DMarvels.com officially around the end of...
Yesterday, the influential Fabbaloo blog wrote an interesting piece about WoodMarvels.com's sister site, 3DMarvels.com. The site was questioning why there was such a sparse selection at 3DMarvels.com compared to TurboSquid.com and even WoodMarvels.com. I replied to his concerns on both...
I did a "guest post" of sorts for Ponoko.com's blog which outlines how I produce the 3D animations you see with every WoodMarvels.com product. Link here: http://blog.ponoko.com/2010/11/19/a-marvellous-process I made this while working on Stephan's amazing wooden tractor, as you can...