It was just right after the CNY holidays where lih jiunn started pressuring all of us whether or not we should join the Hilton Train Project competition. At that time, my group had submission, and since we so stress that time, jufri and his SMART thinking agreed to help out, so we all also have to agree lor, and then thats where it all started. As ignorant and naïve kids we were, we all were in for a treat, and that is where all the secrets, betrayal, and friendship began…”yar right !”
So, we then broke ourselves into sections or teams (graphics, autocad, modelling, and design/concept) and started gathering people…We got a great response in the beginning, but started to diminish as the days went by…
The first stage was the conceptualizing team and the autocad team which were headed by lih jiunn and adam/alex. After all the numerous planning and organization, they came out with an idea of having a Christmas in 4 different seasons…tropical, bohemian, dessert, and winter.
Then, after the design has been done, we had not heard from some of the design team anymore, maybe it was for the better…more freedom for the modeling and graphic team then, which was leaded by me and felicia/hui xian.
When we had the meeting to discuss on the outcome of the overall idea scheme, lih jiunn actually misinterpreted the whole entire competition requirements as she said that there will be a platform which lifts the entire train model. So I asked then, what did they put over these platforms…she then answered, they usually stick pictures and all so I then misinterpreted it in my own terms and thought that why not make the platform more interesting and lively rather than having pictures…so I then sketched the idea out, and we then came out with an underground theme which was an inspiration from Lord of the Rings…we wanted to have gold mines and dragons…The underground team then consist of khai ling, audy, and thomas.
Initially, the previous years actually place the model above the timber platform and places green tapestries around it…lih jiunn totally told me something so different, and I totally exaggerated it even more…and so, that is how we got a twin deck…it was all a misconception as we thought it was compulsory to have two floors actually…haiz…it was not even our idea…and we won because of it, HOHOHO !
The beginning stages of the modelling was a bit tidious as we weren't really sure how to do a real n detailed train model. So we just played around, we build the landscape like architecture students using cardboard. The others were mostly doing the christmas decor, trees, and the tropical house which was leaded by Celdric. Then, it was adam and jufri who really helped out a lot by staying overnight to clay the model despite the fact that adam was fetching yin ling and lih jiunn around the whole day shopping for small miniatures for the model. Thanks Man !
Then we waited for the thing to dry, and we started to worry even more as the model started to curve and crack, but we just went on. It was the help of adora, mak, and andrew later on in the painting. We got some help during the process of drawing and detailing the model later on from the semester one, but later on never see them already...anyway, we then just did it ourselves.
Just two days before the submission, i was a Sunday i remembered, we then finished the entire thing like around 11 and we were the first to see the lights on at night for the twin deck train model, it was amazing. Lighting was done by thomas and alex. It was superb...then we makan later at around 11 something...so late d...
It is then competition week, but i shall not elaborate about it as my friend has talked about it before, so tune in next time fore the next episode where we really had to work hard to win this competition, and that is where we started to really despise one another and also at the same time get used to one another...finally, i posted something !
So, we then broke ourselves into sections or teams (graphics, autocad, modelling, and design/concept) and started gathering people…We got a great response in the beginning, but started to diminish as the days went by…
The first stage was the conceptualizing team and the autocad team which were headed by lih jiunn and adam/alex. After all the numerous planning and organization, they came out with an idea of having a Christmas in 4 different seasons…tropical, bohemian, dessert, and winter.
Then, after the design has been done, we had not heard from some of the design team anymore, maybe it was for the better…more freedom for the modeling and graphic team then, which was leaded by me and felicia/hui xian.
When we had the meeting to discuss on the outcome of the overall idea scheme, lih jiunn actually misinterpreted the whole entire competition requirements as she said that there will be a platform which lifts the entire train model. So I asked then, what did they put over these platforms…she then answered, they usually stick pictures and all so I then misinterpreted it in my own terms and thought that why not make the platform more interesting and lively rather than having pictures…so I then sketched the idea out, and we then came out with an underground theme which was an inspiration from Lord of the Rings…we wanted to have gold mines and dragons…The underground team then consist of khai ling, audy, and thomas.
Initially, the previous years actually place the model above the timber platform and places green tapestries around it…lih jiunn totally told me something so different, and I totally exaggerated it even more…and so, that is how we got a twin deck…it was all a misconception as we thought it was compulsory to have two floors actually…haiz…it was not even our idea…and we won because of it, HOHOHO !
The beginning stages of the modelling was a bit tidious as we weren't really sure how to do a real n detailed train model. So we just played around, we build the landscape like architecture students using cardboard. The others were mostly doing the christmas decor, trees, and the tropical house which was leaded by Celdric. Then, it was adam and jufri who really helped out a lot by staying overnight to clay the model despite the fact that adam was fetching yin ling and lih jiunn around the whole day shopping for small miniatures for the model. Thanks Man !
Then we waited for the thing to dry, and we started to worry even more as the model started to curve and crack, but we just went on. It was the help of adora, mak, and andrew later on in the painting. We got some help during the process of drawing and detailing the model later on from the semester one, but later on never see them already...anyway, we then just did it ourselves.
Just two days before the submission, i was a Sunday i remembered, we then finished the entire thing like around 11 and we were the first to see the lights on at night for the twin deck train model, it was amazing. Lighting was done by thomas and alex. It was superb...then we makan later at around 11 something...so late d...
It is then competition week, but i shall not elaborate about it as my friend has talked about it before, so tune in next time fore the next episode where we really had to work hard to win this competition, and that is where we started to really despise one another and also at the same time get used to one another...finally, i posted something !
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