The Incredible Kitbash
SilverGirl
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(not sure if this is the best place for this - apologies to mods if it's not)
As I'm getting more into the groove of this whole Daz thing, I'm finding there's a certain glee and satisfaction when I have to get creative to get something custom to look right... and it works.
Share your kitbashes! What are you really proud of making work?
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Two of my recents:
- Fridge magnets. There really isn't much out there, so I shrunk a bunch of food (fruit, a burger, a piece of pizza, some fancy cocktails) and affixed them to the fridge. They look great!
- One of my characters has a sword made of amber with a dragonfly embedded in it (it's magic, so it works, because magic). When I started this journey I was dismayed because I knew I'd never find anything like that in the store. About a month ago I realized all I really needed was a sword with geometry I liked, some shaders, and a shrunk-down dragonfly model. I got it all put together and strutted around like a conquoring general for the rest of the day.
I've been working on a set for many months that is a kitbash of mostly Kitbash3D items.
The main strip:
I turned this pawn shop
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into this weapons store (packed with Daz props):
And this cybernetic modification shop began life as a regular operating room:
Probably my most involved "kit-bash", the engineering deck of the S.P.V Pharsicle, the primary setting for a collection of O.C.s, originally appearing in a web comic I co-created with the late Paul Scott Gibbs titled "Freighter Tails" The comic ran from April 2001 until Paul's untimely death in February 2002. While the concept as a web comic sputtered and eventually halted without Paul's involvment, I still putter the characters, specifically Lt. Mzzkiti, an alien cat-girl, for a few "fans" still dedicated after 20+ years.
Dor this environment, I literally chopped up selected geometries of NightShift3D's Odyssen Station sets, mixing and matching pieces along with some Stonemason elements, the plungers from some 2005 Daleks by Billy-Home, girders ftom an "Evil of the Daleks" throne chamber vy Rob Semenoff, meshes I personally modeled to resemble Dalek upper sections (serving as capacitors), and displacement maps I made, derived from Death Star surface tiles made by JediLaw. (That entire lowest surface is actually a single 4 sided polygon!)
Oh wow, both of you! Those are so gorgeous!
There's atleast 10 products worth of clutter in here. Helps give it that lived in look. Life is messy.
Here's an untextured "clay" render of my engine room depicting only the geometry and the displacements.
I also removed the ceiling girders and draping cables for clarity.
I bashed together a village scene for some kind of "Midsomer Murders" kind of story that happened in my head. The most time-consuming parts was creating fake rooms in the terraced houses in the back.
Oh pretty! I get chills just looking at it!
Bashed up from a number of polygons:
The UK has a drag strip called 'Santa Pod', so I thought it amusing to have a racing snail (gastropod) at a strip called 'Gastro Pod' where the starting gantry was also a gastro - restaurant. OK, I modelled the entire drag strip, garages and gantries from scratch and then used Shinteo freebies for all the characters & Rendo freebies for the wheeled vehicles and racing snail. One of the characters thought looking at her reflection in a car mirror was more interesting than the racing snail.
Regards,
Richard
..an oldie but still one of my best.
"This is da Place"
Thanks!
I love little details like that.
Though to be fair, one really ought to look one's best for a snail race!
I love it!
I hadn't at all thought of making the Aslan's Court set into something more modern, but it turned out fantastic!
...thank you.
Combining it with Mooshine's Diner was, should I say, an interesting process. The hanging lights were kitbashed from the Diner's roof
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What a great scene you have kitbashed.
Very nice...
I love this! Very gritty.