Thank you for your kind words too. I’ll have to check my stock of tomatoes :P

Thank you for the kind words too!

On similar lines I have a statement on my entry Top10 entry this time…. “The individual creators did the fine job, Great infact, I just play around and use them to get to the Top10s” hehehe…

Jokes apart… It’s the individual models here that make up this great scene… Without the tools (3DVIA Shape) and the resources (those lovely ’shared’ models), creating something like this is simply impossible… even if the ideas are mine, I can’t build the scene until the building blocks are in place :)

So it’s my duty to congratulate all the contributors who made “On the Way to Monument Valley” possible… prolithic, MoabUT, Smike, mgbaron, Romain, StephaneV, mdigregorio, wirecase for their creations… Don, tomy and sady for the models that they shared even if they did not created them…

And Don, it’s not just we who do a good job and hard work… You, too, do a great job of bringing this Weekly Feature of 3DVIA to encourage other modelers!!! These are my “tomatoes” for you :)
[btw, did you ever get the other tomatoes :D just curious hehehe]

Congrats for yet another Top10 entry… I always knew that you would be the top-scorer here… the person with highest number of models would naturally have most number of Top10 entries…

But this is not just statistical thing, each of your model could very well be a potential Top10. I say this because it shows in all your works… the detailing, textures, small things here and there, even describtion of the models… there are very few who could equal Smike on these counts…

I’m sure most of us will agree…

And smike is good at modeling many other things apart from choppers and gunships… check out is creations in Featured Artist entry ( http://www.3dvia.com/blog/3dvia-featured-artist-michael-petersen/ ) as well as his other models (from his homepage)…

Congrats once again Smike :)

It’s really exciting to see what people upload! Sometimes I print them out and run around the office showing everyone :P

Your group is indeed doing a great job with imaginative and varied modeling in 3DVIA Shape! The rest of us learn from your models and concepts.

Smike is an amazing guy! What else can you say :D

Thank you for also bringing up the fact that the whole Top 10 thing is something that I started to help recognize the users each week. Because the choices are entirely my own, everyone knows exactly where the “blame” lies when they are not happy with the choices. I do try to mix it up as much as possible to keep it interesting and to point out things that can help modelers have fun and make good models.

For those who like statistics; in the first 32 Top 10 posts (320 models) there were 169 different modelers represented. For the Honorable Mentions (150 models – the first two posts did not have Honorable Mentions) there were 114 different modelers represented. I think that shows quite a breadth and depth of talent here at 3DVIA – Bravo!

Special congrats to smike for getting included for the 34th time in this blog. He is awesome with helicopter/gunship models.

Don you are doing a great job in identifying the models we actually missed. Just now (for the first time) I noticed at the end of this blog that – these are my choices (dswavely) and my choices alone aim the tomatoes appropriately. LOL!!! :)

Thanks for the compliments on the shots. I really enjoy exploring and trying to get good shots, so that folks are more interested in exploring themselves.

Now, on to trying to get the rest of the tank pictures uploaded!