geralday opened this issue on Aug 19, 2006 · 11 posts
geralday posted Sat, 19 August 2006 at 12:28 PM
Attached Link: http://fast3d.co.uk
.. giggle..Hope you are all well and happy.
Here's a super little mini-meshed phone.. realistic? .. not 'arf..!
All the best, Gerald.
geralday posted Sat, 19 August 2006 at 12:30 PM
..and it's free too!
ockham posted Sat, 19 August 2006 at 5:05 PM
Fine piece of work. Telephones are surprisingly hard to
model, for such an apparently simple shape.
I tried once and just couldn't make it look right.
geralday posted Sat, 19 August 2006 at 5:14 PM
Making this started driving me nuts! Both the handset and the base required numerous restarts... they either looked too blocky or too soft/rounded.
Gerald. :unsure:
pakled posted Sat, 19 August 2006 at 5:23 PM
..join the club..;) I tried modeling one like this (actually a 40's version)..didn't come off that well..great work Mr. Day..;)
I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit
anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)
martial posted Sat, 19 August 2006 at 5:40 PM
Dring.. Dring...Hi... Just say thnks for all your free meshes...Salut! ....Dring
vilian posted Sat, 19 August 2006 at 7:09 PM Online Now!
Wow, things like that are still common in various underpaid places (offices and such). My grandma used to have very similar one, but a bit more yellowish. Thanks for sharing this greatly done stuff :)
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Darboshanski posted Sat, 19 August 2006 at 8:59 PM
We had one of these when I was a teen. Talk about flashbacks...LOL! My son still can't believe that we once had to dail to ring someone. As a matter of fact I have one of these old phones lying around the house I forgot how heavy they were.
Cheers,
Micheál
ockham posted Sun, 20 August 2006 at 10:43 AM
Oddly enough, the original 'self-dialing phone', invented in 1895, had
buttons! A single vertical row, not the modern 3 x 4 rectangle.
The rotary thingie was (I'd guess) Bell's way of avoiding royalties
on the original patent. Nothing else could explain its long reign,
since the rotary motion is unnatural and difficult for most people.
pakled posted Sun, 20 August 2006 at 10:47 AM
blink? Bell had the original patent (on the phone anyways..;)
Silly fact- in America, the long-distance prefixes were based on their ease of dial, which is why NY had 202, (or 212, I don't remember), and NC had 919..;)
I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit
anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)
EnglishBob posted Mon, 21 August 2006 at 10:12 AM
Thanks, Gerald! We had one like that at home until fairly recently. I realised how old fashioned it was when one of my daughter's friends asked if she could use our phone to call her mother. She looked confused and said "how do you work this?" She'd never seen a dial before...