Series: Modeling a Shipping Container – Part 02

by Jonathan Williamson

In this Blender 2.5 video tutorial we model a shipping container as a hard-surface modeling exercise.

This second section covers the initial creation of the door panels, hinges, and some tweaking around the model.

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18 Responses to “Series: Modeling a Shipping Container – Part 02”
  1. Nick Dart
    Posts: 15

    Once again BLOWN AWAY
    This looks great I cant wait to get cracking

    -Nick

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     Sep 16, 2010 at 10:05 pm
  2. Matija
    Posts: 1

    Excellent tutorial. Just one thing regarding messing up offset in array of hinges, I think it happened at 26:30 when u made that weld joint (u changed hinge size in Z direction).

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     Sep 17, 2010 at 7:11 am
    • PioneerD
      Posts: 3

      Yes because the Z size changed but it didn’t decrease the gap between each piece of the array so the gap got larger. I got it pretty perfect on mine with entering 6.53066

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       Nov 19, 2010 at 1:05 am
  3. Oliver Villar Diz
    Posts: 2

    Nice tutorial, as always :) The issue with Alt+D… I think it’s a bug: the rest of the duplicates are only actualised when you exit from the editing mode ;)

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     Sep 17, 2010 at 9:41 am
  4. haqzaf
    Posts: 54

    Hi,

    Thanks to Jonathan Williamson,

    I completed the part2 of this tutorial last night.

    Will post my result, when the final part be released.

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     Sep 17, 2010 at 4:23 pm
  5. tjb0607
    Posts: 10

    Awesome!!! Will there be a texturing tutorial for this at the end?

    I love these tutorials :D

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     Sep 17, 2010 at 10:06 pm
  6. William Kirk
    Posts: 2

    Great as always! If it was not for your tutorials I would have given up on Blender. Thanks for all the help.

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     Sep 18, 2010 at 4:51 pm
  7. Jerry
    Posts: 5

    What software do you use to capture/record these lessons? The quality if very good, and I want to recommend the software to people I work with for our internal training purposes. (This is a non-blender usage, but rather for a web-based data system we are adopting.)

    Thanks.

    Jerry

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     Oct 6, 2010 at 4:26 pm
  8. rednaz
    Posts: 6

    Nice tutorial, it teached me alot about hard surface modeling. Btw I also had the same problem with the hinges at the end, haha

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     Jan 5, 2011 at 5:01 am
  9. tarik bagriyanik
    Posts: 1024

    here is my “making of container”

    https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.213865958692376.52752.132831550129151&type=1

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     Dec 21, 2011 at 7:12 am
  10. Cogni
    Posts: 1

    Wish the references were still available. I can’t see your minor grid lines and my sizes will be off! I know Super3 knows this tutorial is here — I saw a comment! Why remove the reference pictures?

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     Dec 20, 2012 at 10:12 pm
  11. Guy Capra
    Posts: 10

    Hell(o),
    I have yet sent a message to support saying there is some inversion between 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 parts. No great issue, but since I can’t download the part 02 mp4 video could you check it please ?
    Many thanks :-)

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     Apr 1, 2013 at 6:41 am
    • Jonathan Williamson
      Posts: 2971

      Thanks for the heads up Guy, I’ll look into it!

      Cheers,
      Jonathan

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       Apr 1, 2013 at 10:25 am
      • Guy Capra
        Posts: 10

        Hi Jonathan,

        I have downloaded part #02 and it is ok for me now, but to be more precise on the website issue concerning this shipping container tutorial : when we clic on button [1] we get the part #2, and when we clic on button [3] we get part #4…
        Hoping this will help a bit more to find and repear the page linked ;-)

        Best Regards,
        Guy

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         Apr 2, 2013 at 11:10 am
      • Jonathan Williamson
        Posts: 2971

        Hi Guy, this should be fixed now. Thanks for the heads up!

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         Apr 2, 2013 at 12:05 pm
  12. Kelly Bellis
    Posts: 13

    Hi Jon,

    I’ve been having a good time learning Blender using this shipping container tutorial as my first hard surface modeling project. I’ve also posted more than one user submitted image here in part 2 as it was vacant of any images, but feel free to delete any of them should there be some policies or some other reasons that you might have.

    Thanks again for all your work that went into this particular tutorial and this entire website.

    Kind regards,

    Kelly

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     May 11, 2013 at 6:55 am

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