> > I find that true with most modelling.  Ignoring fancy shiny new
> features
> > in favour or the most old fashioned but efficient method you can
> think
> > of has got me out of many a problem.
> 
>    Lots of shiny stuff in Wings though - have you tried it yet Jamie?

Nah.  I looked at it a while back, but I was still on dialup, and it 
needed something like 35Mb of support packages downloaded to use it.

Besides, I'm not doing much modelling ATM.

> > The brass texture looks closer to copper/gold, and you might want to
> > drop the ambient value on it a bit.
> 
>   Yes, it was Gold_2A with the ambient dropped a fair bit already.
> I've tried the brass textures and for some reason, I can't get it
> right with those.
 
Pass, I'll leave that sort of stuff to the POV guru's here.

> > On a side not, I've looked at modelling one of my knives a few
> times,
> > but been scared off by all the curves.
> >
> > It's one of these :
> > http://www.buckknives.com/catalog/detail/225/223
> >
> > Got it about twelve years ago and used it for field work, sample
> > collection and crude dissection during my degree.
> 
>   That's nice. Mine was for fishing and was a gift for my eighteenth
> birthday, which was ..err... twenty-two years ago. Sugar.  :(

Heh.  Yer only 11 years older than me :) 

> > Still has the nigh on razor edge I put on it about nine years ago
> when I
> > put it away.
> 
>    After doing 'what' with it, Jamie?   ;)

Nowt.  It's too piggin' huge to carry around with an 85mm blade length 
(that's the length of the bit with an edge on, if I measure from pivot 
point to blade tip it's 105mm).  If I ever got stopped by the police for 
any reason I'd be in *deep* crud.

I do occasionally use it in the back garden for whittling down scrap 
wood for kindling to start the barbecue (I'm philosophically opposed to 
the use of firelighters or accelerants :) or for other random jobs that 
a large sharp knife makes easier...  It makes a damn good letter opener, 
too.

Jamie.

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