And now a summary of 2024.

April 2024
Console at Bedford Comic Con


May 2024
Console at Barry Collector Con

Michael Troughton and others appeared with console but here's son-Troughton himself

August 2024
Console at Skegness Comic Con


w/ Clem So

and finally
November 2024
Console at Reading Comic Con

w/ K9

And thats it for the Baker console for 2024. It may appear next year but needs a good long rest and some TLC as its definitely looking its age of late.

A neglected thread, so here's a one-pic-per-event update for you all.

October 2023
Console at The Belfry charity fundraiser for Autism Allstars

includes moi as 5

November 2023
Console at Northampton Museum (covered elsewhere!)

with K9 and I

November 2023
Console at Crawley Comic Con

cosplayers Toph and Julian as 14 and 12

Quote from: Volpone on Dec 03, 2024, 02:39 pmUnderstand that the last post in this thread is 8 years ago.  Galacticprobe stopped posting because of health issues and, sadly, I don't think anyone's heard from him since. 

I pop him an email every now and again and get the occasional reply, he's doing ok from his last update.

I'll send you mine, don't worry.

Quote from: mverta on Dec 07, 2024, 08:17 pmI like this one, but bring it into Photoshop and desaturate it to black/white so it's not influencing the colors of your textures at all when you finally get to that stage.

Unfortunately, I don't have Photoshop as Adobe's subscription is quite high. I have an alternate software called Affinity Photo 2. I'm not sure if it's possible to bring the HDRI into Affinity Photo and do the desaturation there...but I'll have a look and see what I can do.

Okay, perfect. I will take a look at these a little bit later and make some suggestions. But start to internalize what your first goal should be: The scale and interest of your model should be evident by geometry alone, with no need for the texture or surrounding elements to give it its framework. You'll first be targeting a clay render, basically. You can light it with a single hdri and call it a day. I like this one, but bring it into Photoshop and desaturate it to black/white so it's not influencing the colors of your textures at all when you finally get to that stage. https://polyhaven.com/a/art_studio

P.S. Blueprints and official plans are almost never representative enough of real world builds to be useful. They're just general guidelines. They represent idealized dimensions, but following them will ultimately betray you.

@mverta Sure here is the PureRef file. You'll need PureRef to open the file, it's completely free to download.

https://we.tl/t-A8TSjFIvUi

The second wireframe is much easier to diagnose, thank you.  If you can get me a link to the full-res reference board you're using, I can mark it up for you and give you some modeling targets to hit.

Quote from: mverta on Dec 07, 2024, 07:38 pmnd also please post some of what you're using as reference

So, for references I've got as many images I could. A lot of them are screengrabs from various episodes on this forum and some of them are from behind the scenes & onset photos, from social media or from TheBlackArchive website. I paste them together in a reference image viewer called PureRef.



For plans/blueprints, I've used the ones which TARDISman has sent me. I'm not sure if I can share them as he has sent me the plans in PMs. (See the previous replies in my build topic)

Quote from: mverta on Dec 07, 2024, 07:38 pmCan I see the wireframe, please?

I've already attached a wireframe render of the model...do you mean something else as I'm a bit confused. If the wireframe is hard to see in the previous render here's a 2nd version of it which I've done;

Can I see the wireframe, please? I already see that this is very nice and efficient, but "too" efficient.  And also please post some of what you're using as reference.  We got to get this board back to referencing external images via BBCode!!