Mario Pedestal. Finished. Better video added showing turning accuracy with PiP.

[thomas_surles]

How awesome would it be to drop a quarter in the pipe to add a credit

[Louis Tully]

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[thomas_surles]

How about a dark theme like the fan art I found.

[yotsuya]

I dunno, I still kind of prefer the first design.

[Louis Tully]

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[SpaceHedgehog]

Don't know whether this is of any use (maybe for some ideas), but I built this using table legs and tubing for hiding cables:





Still have to complete a few bits on it.

[thomas_surles]

Im really digging the new 2 pipe design. I think shes the one.

[PL1]

Not so sure about having the whole front in brick.

How about doing the front like a standard SMB screen and the CP like a cloud level (not shown) screen?

 

Perhaps the lower 6-10 inches in a stone pattern, followed by bushes, mountains and sky with several levels of floating brick shelves with those pushbuttons positioned in the uppermost layer like the floating shelf in the screencap.

If you use SpaceHedgehog's monitor mount, consider wrapping the left monitor support with 3-D steps and have the flagpole as the right monitor support.




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[yotsuya]

Not so sure about having the whole front in brick.

Agreed. I like the original art design, but just add the second pipe.

[jdbailey1206]

Huh huh huh.  Second pipe.

[Malenko]

too much brick.   keep the 2 pipes, and the row of bricks between the top of the pipes, do the rest with blue skies, clouds, bushes, and the "floor rocks"

[Caparo8bit]

How about a dark theme like the fan art I found.

That is some nice artwork and I truly appreciate the suggestion. I'll keep that in mind when it's art time. 

I dunno, I still kind of prefer the first design.

I like the first design more than the fireplace but I worry that it'd be unstable. How's this for a Yotsuya seal of approval? PL1 said 2 pipes a while back and so I gives it a shot. 







Still as stable as the log burner, still has spots for the wheel mounts, and has the pipe support idea. Has a metric-$%#@ton of bricks but I don't care. Once I start, I'm all in. I'll round those corners on the control panel and base of course. This seems better. At least moving in a better direction.

Keep that critique coming.

front is missing some windows to make it look like a castle

[Louis Tully]

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[yotsuya]

Is this what you guys are talking about? Not specifically this but something down this path. It like a better version of what I started with.   

You went too far in the other direction, bro.

[Louis Tully]

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[yotsuya]

But with two pipes

[PL1]

Pardon the craptastic MS Paint hack, but this is a bit closer to what I was thinking.


Scott

[Le Chuck]

1) Motorcycles kick ass.  Have fun.
2) I still like this one but do the following to "fun" it up
    a) change the bricks right below the pipe to the blue stone
    b) do the base in grey stone and lava
    c) do the area above the pipes but below the "ground level" CP as an underwater stage. 
3) Disregard all of that, get a piece of gianourmous PVC, do it up to look like a pipe coming out of a brick ground, and put a cocktail machine inside it like barrel of kong
4) Profit. 

[yotsuya]

I say put the horizon in the middle. Too much sky otherwise.

[thomas_surles]

Just a doodle on my phone of what I was thinking. Maybe a little too simple

[PL1]

I say put the horizon in the middle. Too much sky otherwise.

Sounds good.

Maybe a mashup of an inset underground level (like the warp zone render) for the bottom half and an inset version of the above ground screenshot with a physical piece of pipe extending down from the upper level inset to the underground inset.


Scott

[Caparo8bit]

But with two pipes

hey that gif is Copyright your using my face...... 

[yotsuya]

hey that gif is Copyright your using my face...... 

[Louis Tully]

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[Malenko]

Pardon the craptastic MS Paint hack, but this is a bit closer to what I was thinking.


Scott

same but I figured full brick between coin up question blocks.   However I really like the idea of the underground section too.

[Louis Tully]

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[JDFan]

Perhaps use the physical pipes with 90 degree connectors at the different levels and set the background back a bit for that 3d effect. 

[PL1]

Something to consider for sideart.

Left side: Bridge level (2-3?) over an underwater level. (2-2?)

Right side: Platform/mushroom level (1-3/4-3?) over a lava level. (1-4?)

Handy list of levels and worlds available here.

Click on the desired world# and scroll down for level maps like the links above.

set the background back a bit for that 3d effect.

Just like in this earlier render.   




Scott

[DarakuTenshi]

I dunno, I still kind of prefer the first design.

I'm with you on that. When I saw the original idea I actually got a little bit upset that I didn't come up with that design.




And this is more what I had in my mind after seeing the original idea as well. Now this is slick!

[JDFan]

set the background back a bit for that 3d effect.

Just like in this earlier render.   


Scott

Yes but with insets for each level (ie. Underground, Water, Sky) and the pipes to the sides like in the other renders rather than 3 pipes in the one inset -- so that the insets are the various levels and tied together with the pipes he has at the sides.

[Louis Tully]

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[keilmillerjr]

---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, just make this thing out of real bricks and PVC. No artwork needed. 

[ChanceKJ]

Can't imagine how fricken' heavy that would be. Might as well just use real metal pipe at the point and say to hell with the thin PVC.   

[Louis Tully]

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[yotsuya]

Even if you don't build it, it's cool you're learning about Sketchup this way!

[Louis Tully]

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[Louis Tully]

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[thomas_surles]

What if you took this same concept and added 2 pipes on each side.like 2 on the left side and 2 on the right side