A lot more since the last post

I promised to say how I sharpened the blades; each one had a quadrilateral cross-section; I merely merged the outer pair of points on each quad along each blade.

OK, what have I done since then?


Some smoothing and added surfaces on the nose-cone, as well as a central bar in the middle of the cutter


Started a UV texture for the cutter (based on a tutorial here) -- you can see the UV face edges as paler lines on the red of the cutter.


More detail on the texture


A bump map and some grass-stains added to the texture.


I changed the grass (floor plane) and added an area light for fill-in details


And I changed the "sky" background.


I had plans to do a UV unwrap of the rear roller but two points occurred to me:

• It's pointless UV unwrapping a cylinder primitive
• I'm going to change it anyway (I can't just have the rear spoiler sticking up as though levitating)

Next, I'm going to try to make the grass look more like grass.