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Old 07-13-2006, 04:03 PM
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Thats outstanding . I've been to hospital ORs that were not as clean as that.

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Old 07-13-2006, 04:38 PM
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Default Too, too awesome...

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Well Rudi,
You seem to be to young to be retired allready! Where do you find the time to build and make this kind of movies ?
Rudi and Dan Checkoway seem to have learned Time Management in the same dimension - they effectively use 50 hours of each day!
And like Dan, Rudi makes you wonder - how can a guy do so much, so well, in such a short time?
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Old 07-13-2006, 07:36 PM
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Two thumbs up!

Great job on both the video and the build, Rudi.
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Old 07-13-2006, 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by RudiGreyling
I used a lot of my 'slow stop animation photos', so it looks like the plane is building itself. It is well worth the download.

I hope you enjoy it...
The understatement of the century! Rudi that was AWESOME!!!! I can't wait to get started but now I am VERY, VERY intimidated. Thank you very much for taking the time to put that together. I've already watched it twice. Best part it got me out into my garage and started organizing and cleaning it up so I can get going.

Again thanks!
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Old 07-13-2006, 11:37 PM
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Default Goodness!!

Eye popping is a good one.

Wow

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Old 07-14-2006, 12:20 AM
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Hi Guys,

Thank you for your kind comments...

To answer a couple of your questions:
Time and making the movie:
To make a movie like this is very easy. Got the idea way back when I saw the making of the Airbus 380 on the Discovery channel, they used slow stop animations. I have about 500 odd photos, so that translates in 1 photo every 2 hours so far. One photo every 2 hours is not a lot. I have bought a 2 cheap digital cameras. The one I have mounted on simple L bracket that I can screw down around fixed locations in the garage. The other digicam is on a simple tripod. When I think I need a shot I just move the tools out the way, walk up to the camera and press the button.

After a long time, you have enough photos to make it worthwhile. I download and sort the photos at work every week. I simply used Microsoft Movie Maker and literally within 4 hours on a long slow day at work 2 days ago made the movie. Movie Maker comes free with Widows XP. I guess 1% of the 1000 Hours was taking pictures. The sorting and movie making does not count since I do it in free time during lunch at work. It is my first build so I know I'm building slow, everyone does the first time...


The Shop so clean:
I build in the main garage and have most of the tools in the small hobby room right next to the garage. You can see the hobby room in some of the footage. Almost every night I pack the tools away. Every second day the garage also gets cleaned while I am at work. I typically I take a picture of the overall progress before I pack out the tools, while the garage is still clean and uncluttered with tools.

I am glad you guys enjoyed it. Feel free to distribute it.

PS: Jeff spotted a spelling mistake at 2:57 I'll fix it later the week and upload it again.

Kind Regards
Rudi

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Excellent stuff Rudi! It would take me 1000 hrs just to do the video alone! maybe we'll stop over some day now that we're flying non stop to South Africa out of Atlanta
Hey Scott,
I literally stay 5 minutes away from Johannesburg International Airport, You are welcome to drop in some day!
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Old 07-14-2006, 12:57 AM
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Very cool. I made my wife watch it.
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Old 07-14-2006, 11:09 AM
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This is a great video Rudi! I've taken the liberty of uploading to youtube - to save you bandwidth and provide faster viewing for others. I recommend that folks use the following link if you want to see this quickly and easily (I'm a big youtube fan...):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfUikuSd694
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Old 07-14-2006, 06:31 PM
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Great job! Keep us posted.
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Old 07-14-2006, 07:13 PM
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Rudy,

Very inspiring video which shows so quickly how the plane is built. Congratulation!
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