Rough Render of The Boiler Pump

Museum of Power - Arthur Mumford's Boiler Pump

The majority of my time has been spent modelling and writting on our group blog, so my personal blog has taken a back seat over the last few weeks. But, here I am updating it with the latest work!

My model is looking good, and my group and I are currently putting all the pieces of the pump together, ready to export to Adobe Premiere to make into a video.

Below are some screen shots of my side of the pump, along with a brief video.



Here is my side of the pump along with Steven's pistons, both parts of the pump now have textures applied to them:

Museum Of Power - Group Project

I was allocated the tasks of collecting all needed information on the boiler pump, along with creating the small end of the pump where the steam exits.

I started off by making the indented top of the pump complete with the four nuts and bolts.
In order to make the indented top, I had to select the required amount of faces from the editable poly modifier and use extrude to pull them down a small amount. However, I noticed from the reference images that the four corners of the indented top were rounded and not square, to make them rounded I selected the edge modifier from within editable poly, selected the inside edge, and pulled it in slightly. I did this for the remaining three and then added a turbosmooth to make the edges nice and smooth!



I then continued modelling the rest of the pump. Below are a few pictures of the pump so far. Once the modelling is complete, I will add textures to it to make it more realistic.