Designing Ewe Boat
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Part 3
Adding a colour scheme makes a big difference to the look of the model, although this rather bland effort didn't last long. Colours aren't my strong point so I keep an eye out for other people's colour ideas then shamelessly steal them.

Notice that the sheep body now has something of a profile. This was a cause of some trouble with a lot of binding and catching going on. Having made a model that didn't bind I pulled out the body, dropped it onto the scanner and scanned it in. The result was then tidied up and traced (manually) into Illustrator.
The model is now getting to a more finished state. Two separate files are created, one for the front of the model and a second for the back. The further down this line you go, the harder it is to make changes so by now the model is pretty well as it will be when finished.

Time to work on the instructions; the hardest part!
I printed out a model in full colour and assembled the model taking photographs at each stage on our digital camera (an Olympus 2000)
The assembly pictures are then cut out from the background in PhotoShop and the pictures are sharpened and colour corrected. All the instruction photographs are then assembled onto a page.

At this point all the models are printed out with instructions and sent off to various people to be tested: That is where we are now with Ewe Boat.

The closing stages involve: finalising the design of the model, checking and modifying the instructions, designing the cover and dispatching to the printer.

I'll describe these last stages in Workshop notes as soon as they are complete.

Best wishes

- Rob

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