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Subject: Poser Jerry can -- Work in Progress

AntoniaTiger opened this issue on Oct 28, 2004 · 9 posts
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AntoniaTiger ( ) posted Thu, 28 October 2004 at 6:56 AM · edited Tue, 19 November 2024 at 7:52 AM

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And better spelling/typing too...

This shows, from left to right, a picture of a real jerrycan, the body of the version I'm currently working from, and the low-quality version I completed earlier.

Getting that seam around the body was a fiddling job, and I think that the Poser rendering is making a difference, compared to what I see in the modelling program.

That seam is why the spout is off-centre.

I also did a quick render of the low-quality version, several stacked together. It'd be OK lurking in the background of a scene.

And a question for you: which country first used the Jerry Can?

steveshanks ( ) posted Thu, 28 October 2004 at 10:19 AM

The USA, i reckon is the answer, i was just reading how they had fuel problems in WW2 because the GI's threw them away after use, and thats why there are so many still in use in northern France....Steve

JeffAlberts ( ) posted Thu, 28 October 2004 at 11:59 AM

Looks like the one you're working from is a WW2 German style. Are you planning on having different styles?

JeffH ( ) posted Thu, 28 October 2004 at 12:06 PM

Germany had them first and then everyone else copied a good idea.

"Jerry" = "Gerry" = German

AntoniaTiger ( ) posted Thu, 28 October 2004 at 12:52 PM

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The actual jerrycan in the garage is British Army issue, dated 10/95 (should I have a birthday party for it), and there's a NATO standard. But there's not much changed from the wartime versions.

I finally got the low-res version tweaked to look reasonable, which is what the picture above is.

Now, there are some slight differences in the American models, but the flip-cap versions are legal, except in California.

Rumour has it that when the US wanted copies of the German can, some efforts were made to "improve" the design. The new version leaked. Oops. There have been variations in the pattern of the stiffening ribs.

But the Germans apparently didn't come up with the original design.

stahlratte ( ) posted Thu, 28 October 2004 at 1:06 PM · edited Thu, 28 October 2004 at 1:15 PM

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Attached Link: http://www.generatorjoe.net/html/wedco/jerrycan.html

"But the Germans apparently didn't come up with the original design."

Hate to dissapoint you, but we did.

See link for some Jerrycan history.

HA, VEE HAFF VAYS TO REFILL YOUR CAR !!!

LOL!

stahlratte

BTW, your can looks great ! :-)

(I added the violence flag since the link shows some wartime pics)

Message edited on: 10/28/2004 13:15

Roy G ( ) posted Thu, 28 October 2004 at 1:58 PM

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We in California have a much better version. Though It's round so you cant store them effieciently, and it has a spout that's attached so it never works right. But in some way it's much better. Otherwise why would we have mandated it.

(Because Californians are STUPID)

Hey who said that?

AntoniaTiger ( ) posted Thu, 28 October 2004 at 3:21 PM

Attached Link: http://www.jedsite.info/misc/jerrycans/jerrycans.html

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Anoth history page, which attributes ythe original design to the Italians. Well, they did have troops in North Africa long before the war, and they needed something like that, so it's not a crazy suggestion.

Meanwhile, in one of those "Doh" moments, I remembered displacement maps in Poser 5.

JeffAlberts ( ) posted Thu, 28 October 2004 at 3:49 PM

They must have had something similiar in WWI since there were engines that needed gas. I'm sure it was an evolution of a civilian can of some sort.

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