Mahnmut Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Hello again. I have been tinkering with 3d scans again. Using a camel skull and llama body from the idaho virtualization lab via sketchfab, Itried to recreate Syndyoceras, a protoceratid. I am quite happy with the skull and do actually have not much of an idea about the postcranial skeleton. At the moment its a flattened llama minus some neck. I think the feet should be four-toed, but I didn´t find good references for the size and shape. What do you think? Any suggestions to make it more accurate? I added tags for some other herbivore mammals I plan to build over time because I think I cannot add new tags once I started a topic. Thanks, J 4 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted September 2, 2019 Author Share Posted September 2, 2019 Thanks again, Ynot! Fresh from the printer looks quite similar to fresh from the ground, provided you got exceptionally well preserved fossils: 1 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mahnmut Posted September 3, 2019 Author Share Posted September 3, 2019 After a short photoshooting in a plant pot I assembled the delicate 3d print and am happy to annunce that it is able to stand on its own, which I had not expected. Aloha J 5 3 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 I love the pose! The fact that it stands unassisted is definitely a bonus. ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted September 7, 2019 Author Share Posted September 7, 2019 Thanks Kane, the feedback of an Artist is always appreciated! Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share Posted August 14, 2020 Ahoi. Same method as above, scan of recent relative, a horse in this case. There are some great tools for distorting bones in Blender. The result begins to look like a chalicotherium, although the pelvis needs much work and the feet will be the real fun. I would like to have it printed in scale to the Syndyoceras,(1/10) but that would cost a fortune. Even in scale to my whales and most dinosaurs (1/20) it wont be cheap. But I think it will come out nice! What do you think? Aloha, J Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 I think your work is amazing. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted August 16, 2020 Author Share Posted August 16, 2020 Thanks Don! I appreciate it! Just replaced the distorted horse pelvis and legs with a Rhino, Teleoceras. That is a much closer fit, even without distorting it. Not surprisingly considering the weight of the animal and number of toes. Aloha, J Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted August 17, 2020 Author Share Posted August 17, 2020 Hello together, can anyone tell me where to find good reference images for Chalicotherium hands and feet? Thanks, J Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted August 15, 2021 Author Share Posted August 15, 2021 Hello again, this one is not really an ungulate, but it is from the neogene, and with only one toe on each foot I call it an honorary ungulate: Simosthenurus. Except for small changes to the tail, neck and ribcage I consider this one completed. Another Aussie to join this one: http://www.thefossilforum.com/uploads/monthly_2019_08/P1040975a.jpg.e9e7953b8d9461edc245d4618f116f51.jpg G'day mates. Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 (edited) Testing the limits of my new printer. First version of the pelvis (1) came out useless, but it turned out the after cleaning up the geometry in blender it worked much better (2). The second pic shows a useful little device I should have discovered much earlier. The Part labelled in th pic asUlna/Radius is of course the lower leg, Tibia and Fibula. Best Regards, J Edited August 28, 2021 by Mahnmut correction 1 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted September 1, 2021 Author Share Posted September 1, 2021 Et Voilà! my first completely selfprinted model. This is definitely the smallest scale that I can do with that printer, not something to look at to closely. But the overall impression does work for me, a is the case with my smaller handmade models. I think for bigger models the printer is just fine, so next on my list are the long unfinished Chalicotherium and maybe a Megaloceros wall mount in scale to my other models. (no guarantees, as who knows what distracts me next.) Best Regards, J 1 3 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted September 6, 2021 Author Share Posted September 6, 2021 Next printing task. Ribs are difficult, getting support structures out without breaking the thin ribs is an art that I still have to master. But the other bones came out perfect. I still have to find good references for the unguals, but my Chalicotherium is coming along fine. Best Regards, J Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted September 9, 2021 Author Share Posted September 9, 2021 (edited) Hello again. This time a real ungulate, but a pleistocene one. Megaloceros! I used part of this magnificent scan: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/giant-deer-nhmw-geo-187600300003-7ef4a780764b4784ac0c928e90fcd18d https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Specimen: Giant deer or Irish elk, Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach, 1799) Inventory number: NHMW-Geo 1876/0030/0003 Collection: Natural History Museum Vienna, Geology and Paleontology Department, Vertebrate collection (curator: Ursula Göhlich) Scanned and edited by Nikola Brodtmann, Anna Haider and Viola Winkler (NHMW) Thanks! The only change I made was giving him brow paddles like the ones Megaloceros antecedens had, mainly because they are fun and the scale I printed fits better with M. antecedens than with M. giganteus. The antlers would have been a bit more compact (shorter tines) in antecedens though. Best regards, J Edited September 9, 2021 by Mahnmut grammar 2 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted September 11, 2021 Author Share Posted September 11, 2021 Hello again, back to Chalicotherium. Still challenged by fragile ribs and source-lacking feet, it takes shape. Best Regards, J 1 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted September 17, 2021 Author Share Posted September 17, 2021 Aloha! After slightly more than a year I finished my Chalicothere, Anisodon grande. I learned that I have to thicken the ribs by about 30% in order to be able to print them properly, but after that, I am quite happy with the result. My new printer has proved itself worthy. And Perissodactyla are no longer missing in my collection. Best regards,J 1 2 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted October 2, 2021 Author Share Posted October 2, 2021 Aloha! Litopterna- Macrauchenia, based mainly on the skeletal drawing by Ivan Lofrida. Skull and teeth need more work. Its a much more massive animal than I would have expected from popular depictions, which look like a Vicuña with a proboscis. Cheers, J Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 Some South Americans, The Cingulate is Geoworlds Glyptodon with a handmade tail smoewhere between Panochthus and Doedicurus, the feet are modelled after a scan by laboratorio de palaeobiologia on sketchfab. Printout of Macrauchenia as described above. Aloha, J 1 4 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted November 14, 2021 Author Share Posted November 14, 2021 Aloha! My south american group gets company. Who can guess who is next? Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted December 10, 2021 Author Share Posted December 10, 2021 I had to check several times to be sure this really is to scale. Best Regards, J 1 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted October 8, 2022 Author Share Posted October 8, 2022 After some hiatus, I will try to model and print a postcranial for my Entelodont (third from the left) next. I have been looking for a scanned pig skeleton to use as a base without luck, but recently realized that some reconstructions are incredibly close to Bison! Is that realistic? Or maybe its closer to suidae, but with parallel evolution related to having a heavy head. (more than convergence, being artiodactyls to begin with) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entelodont#/media/File:Daeodon_shoshonensis_skeletal.jpg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bison_Skeleton.svg Best Regards, J Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted October 10, 2022 Author Share Posted October 10, 2022 Making progress: 1 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted October 11, 2022 Author Share Posted October 11, 2022 As always, the ribs are a pain in the thorax. But coming along. Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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