Free 4K model of an ornate gold vintage pocket watch with embossed filigree case, Roman numerals, visible mechanical hands and an aged, slightly worn patina.

Vintage Pocket Watch

The Mercedes-Benz 300 SL (chassis code W 198) is a two-seat sports car that was produced by Mercedes-Benz as a gullwinged coupe (1954-1957) and roadster (1957-1963). It was based on the company's 1952 racer, the W194, with mechanical direct fuel-injection which boosted power almost 50% on its 3-litre overhead camshaft straight-6 engine. Capable of reaching a top speed of up to 263 km/h (163 mph), it was both a sports car racing champion and the fastest production car of its time.

The 300 SL was inspired by Max Hoffman, Mercedes-Benz's authorized United States importer at the time, who correctly perceived a large American market for such a car. The company introduced the 300 SL in February 1954 at the International Motor Sports Show in New York instead of in Europe in order to get it into U.S. buyers' hands sooner.

Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing

A quick experiment (edit: now a WIP for the [mechanimal challenge](https://blog.sketchfab.com/sketchfab-3d-modeling-challenge-mechanical-animals/) I just discovered!) with hard-surface, and I still have a long way to go !

This model is (more than) based on ["The Timber Beneath"](http://www.scoobasteve.co.nz/2013/01/the-timber-beneath.html), a wonderful sculpture by **Stephen Lambert**.

The different "organs" as well as textures were just randomly thrown around, but with some more practicing, I definitely think I'll start enjoying this style and find a nice designing/modeling/texturing workflow, to hopefully design original models some day.

Also, none of the mechanisms make any "mechanical sense", which is why I did not animate the model. As before, that could change with some more attention brought to details, and a little bit of thinking before acting :D

![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lw3hJS-2rVk/UQEH9xQEHQI/AAAAAAAAAYg/Vr3p9L4T5bE/s1600/Shark_SLambert_03.jpg)

Mechanical Shark

60% Custom Mechanical Keyboard 
Modeled in Blender 
Textured in Substance Painter

Custom - Mechanical Keyboard

I downloaded this 3d scan and re-did the topology:
https://skfb.ly/FuIp

Textures were never really finished, but I think it looks pretty good. Thanks @alban for the cool car scans! I'm eyeing another one to do next.


Fun facts about the Opel:

-It was one of the early inspirations for Corvette styling.

-Yes, the headlights opened like that. Opel owners joked about having one really buff arm from operating the mechanical lever for turning on the lights.

-It was produced for six years, then went on a 34-year hiatus. Another car was produced in 2007, based on a Saturn Sky. Not quite as cool.

Opel GT Retopo

> I had seen spider from my friend and decided to start learning Brender :3  [this reference](https://www.artstation.com/artwork/39alm) by [Stephan McGowan](https://www.artstation.com/sambees) on Artstation.. [SasatiKudasati](http://sketchfab.com/3d-models/mechanical-spider-df92262631eb447db418e9360a1b3807) my friend and one who helping me with it :3

Crystal spider

This is for the MasterpieceVR “Imagine And Create A Sustainable Future” competition.
This biomechanical creature is a Zonnedrucker G9 of the early kingdom biotronican. Zonnedruckers are mammoth 3d printers mostly used for printing [energy farming units](https://skfb.ly/6yUUt). They are capable of printing 1 sq. km. of energy farming equipment a month. They can operate fully autonomously over long periods of time. They can source most materials for printing on site and are capable of elemental conversion if resources are limited. They can be powered by the energy farming units they produce after a month of operation, but a buffer of 200,000 megawatts is required for startup. Their printing heads are composed of primarily ultra high density biological muscle tissue which is self repairing and highly precise.
More about [Biotronicans](https://www.artstation.com/plasticarm/blog/1qRz/biotronicans) . All modeling done in MasterpieceVR and textured with 3D-Coat.

Zonnedrucker (Biotronican Solar Farm Printer)

Eugène Bourdon (1808–1884) – artist / maker ca. 1835, Paris

A nineteenth-century model of the Watt steam engine. It allowed to demonstrate the principle of the steam engine’s operation by mechanically turning a flywheel and connecting the machinery to an external source of steam or compressed gas.

For more images and further information, visit: https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2763

Inventory number: 4988; 993/V

Localisation of the physical object: Jagiellonian University Museum, Collegium Maius, Kraków, Poland

Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolska Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland; “Virtual Museums of Małopolska” Project

3D model & animation by Stanisław Ogarek as a diploma work at Tischner European University.

Model of the Watt Steam Engine with animation

![](https://sun7-6.userapi.com/kvO23xTUgHesoJSMJT61h1QKcB863O83_AJEdw/1h2i0UR--Mc.jpg)

[Screens](https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Z5wWyR)

[Google Drive Link](https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/10vdYMgIRDCtMe0KhKYs1uCniYdIRzZK4)



Rigged  Biomechanical Mutant with 2 skin variations 

Textures: 8192x8192 PBR

Triangles: 25988

Vertices: 14762

Note: For any commercial game projects

Free - Biomechanical Mutant

**Welcome to [The Hallwyl Museum](https://hallwylskamuseet.se/en/) in Stockholm, Sweden.**

Once the home of [Walther](https://goo.gl/79nUeT) and [Wilhelmina von Hallwyl](https://goo.gl/Y8iiJs).

When the couple wanted to build their own house on No 4 Hamngatan it was natural to include stables in the design. The architect [Isak Gustaf Clason](https://goo.gl/8Yo7MD) drew an interior that followed the standard of the day and the equipment was bought from Bolinder’s mechanical factory. The horses were sold in 1908 but Wilhelmina von Hallwyl decided to keep the interior “to save an image of the stables in its original state, to a certain degree”.

The Stables

Hardsurface model for UE4 Render. The design is more on the futuristic side where the parts are not too worn or rusty like you see on a more steampunky themed model

Mechanical Eagle

Another experiment at animation - which will turn into an entry for the [mechanical animal challenge](https://blog.sketchfab.com/sketchfab-3d-modeling-challenge-mechanical-animals) - inspired from a mechanical caterpillar sculpture in ["Les Machines de l'Ile"](https://www.lesmachines-nantes.fr/) in Nantes (France).

Geometry, textures and optimization were a little left behind for this model, as I spent most of my time fighting with Blender's parenting rules and animation constraints...

Mechanical Caterpillar

Signaling Devices Manufacturing Plant in Katowice – manufacturer

1970s, Katowice

Mościce Art Centre

The presented device is one of the few surviving emergency telephones on the factory premises, which used to be on the equipment of every industrial facility. The massive telephone, weighing over 20 kg, was manufactured after World War II as a miner's telephone at the Zakłady Wytwórcze Urządzeń Sygnalizacyjnych (ZWUS) in Katowice-Wełnowiec. Originally, this type of telephone was intended for communication in methane mines and in rooms with a high risk of explosion. Its cast-iron construction, which is resistant to mechanical damage.

For more images and further information, visit: https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/3379

Inventory number: CSM/F/I/GA/024

Regional Digitalisation Lab, MIK, Mościce always in my heart. Dissemination of the cultural heritage of the industrial district of Tarnów projekt

Project Visualization (3D model + textures): Sebastian Woźniak

Factory emergency telephone

Nissan Sileighty i made in blender 2.82a

Japanese tuning company, Kid's Heart, produced 500 official units of a 180sx and Silvia hybrid known as the Sil80 (SilEighty). These cars were built upon the standard 1998 180sx platform but had the headlamps, front wings, hood, front bumper and fixings from a Nissan Silvia swapped over. These cars were also given some mechanical and tuning upgrades, including revised suspension, an improved limited-slip differential and an ECU tune.

**06.08.23: Model was reworked with help of @myedsu**

Nissan SilEighty [Updated]

A version between WIP1 and WIP2. 

I plan to make a glass railing around the gear system to protect the citizens of this city.

I like this scene so I did not deleted. But  I thought it is way too early to make this glass railing.

![city-3dhaupt](https://3dartdh.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/mechanical-city-0-15_by_3d-haupt-1.jpg?h=600)

Blend-File [**Download**](https://sketchfab.com/models/7756c251cf4b4165b29fedbe46bdb763#download)

**Gearsystem Control:**

Gear 64 is the gear which drive the gearsystem (I selected it).

Rotate this gear around the z-axis to move the other geras. 

Every gear has a transformation constraint which gets and converters the rotation from gear 64.

![city](https://3dartdh.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/mechanical-city-0-15-by-3dhaupt.gif?h=600)

Feel free to use this for you own projects :)

[Demo Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV4CKzHrJf8&feature=youtu.be)

![city-3dhaupt](https://3dartdh.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/mechanical-city-0-15_by_3d-haupt-3.jpg?h=500)

Mechanical City (WIP-1.5) Animation Constraints

I won't animate nor go on improving this model, which was a test at creating a skeleton made of metal from reference, here a [juvenile pronghorn skeleton](https://skfb.ly/6sW9u) from [Idaho Virtualization Laboratory](https://sketchfab.com/ivlpaleontology).

I'll try to discipline myself in the future to find the patience to create a proper and animated version of a similar model !

Test - Mechanical deer

The Dwarf Spider Droid was a four-legged dome-shaped mechanical arachnid droid that featured a powerful, centrally mounted laser cannon.

This Dwarf Spider Droid is just one of the many Star Wars exhibits that can be seen in the Star Wars Virtual Museum.

Download the Star Wars Virtual Museum here:

http://www.starwarsvirtualmuseum.com

Dwarf Spider Droid

The animated version of the [Earthquake map for the years 2010 and 2011](https://skfb.ly/6Mnsn) ([this model](https://skfb.ly/6MnyD) showing every earthquake since the year 2000 might also interest you ;) ).

The animation spans on the whole two years: a frame represents 6 days, and at 0.5x speed (the default value), one second is therefore equivalent to three months of data.

Although the main seismic zones are more easily visible on the static version of the visualization, the animation clearly helps to identify the earthquakes of February 2010 in Chile and March 2011 in Japan, which appear as bright "flashes".

Their respective aftershocks - spanning on a few weeks/months - are also visible and clearly showcase the relaxing of mechanical constraints in the subduction zones.

Colored by magnitude (blue=low to red=high).

Earthquakes - 2010 & 2011 - Animation

Artisan work. Created with the same tools and technics used in the XV century.
Ardavin´s Medieval Clocks never existed. The models are created based on designs, materials, styles and mechanical properties used by the real clockmakers during the XV century.  Wood, iron, brass and a lot of handmade tools are used. 
You can find more info visiting [Ardavin´s Web](https://ardavin.net/historia-del-reloj/como-funciona-un-reloj-medieval/) (only spanish) or can see the real model in [this video]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdbv2D1G_j4).
Also, this [animation]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoeP0adbDKg) contains a very useful explanation of "how it works"

Ardavin´s Medieval Clock. Model Completorium

This is for the MasterpieceVR “Imagine And Create A Sustainable Future” competition, sponsored by Microsoft, Samsung, PrototypeD, and Sketchfab.
This is an example of a solar array printed by a [Zonnedrucker](https://skfb.ly/6yU6I) printer. It’s photovoltaic wings keep themselves oriented towards the solar energy source. They can also be fitted with biological photosynthesizing cells.

Biotronicans are AI designed biomechanical creatures designed for caretaking of biological organisms. All modeling done in MasterpieceVR and textured with 3D-Coat.

Solar Farm Array

This automated clock is one half of a pair, the other one is a female lion.
![](http://bit.ly/2mW2SRX)
When the clock strikes inside the lion its eyes start rolling, the jaws open and close.

The skin covering the machinery has become worn over the years. We will have to imagine a thick mane and a golden fur on the lion.

To modern eyes the clock looks like a toy. To the 17th century spectator, it was a precious little miracle and a display of human progress. The lion was a symbol of Africa, a continent that the Europeans had recently started discovering. The clock work was a result of the human efforts to control time and the machinery showed the new mechanical knowledge.


The drawer in the clock once contained a key to the clock work, possibly a description of it and, perhaps, remains of a real lion.


It was typical for the 17th century thinking that the lion clocks were a pair. Two halves forming a whole was an important concept.

Text: Sara Dixon

Scan: Erik Lernestål

Lion Table Clock

Practicing rigging in blender, from a nice 3D printing design by gzumwalt, [available on Instructables](https://www.instructables.com/id/Hummingbird/) under [**CC-BY-NC-SA**](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).

Working on a single armature was fine for the gears and base oscillating movement, but I messed up the shoulder joints area rigging, hence a messy wing movement... Learning was made though !

Note to self: learn to better use Inverse Kinematics contraints for those complex articulations ;)

**PS**: the default speed is at 0.1X, do not hesitate to tweak it.

Mechanical Hummingbird

Artisan work. Created with the same tools and technics used in the XV century.
Ardavin´s Medieval Clocks never existed. The models are created based on designs, materials, styles and mechanical properties used by the real clockmakers during the XV century.  Wood, iron, brass and a lot of handmade tools are used. 
You can find more info visiting [Ardavin´s Web](https://ardavin.net/historia-del-reloj/como-funciona-un-reloj-medieval/) (only spanish).
Also, this [animation]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoeP0adbDKg) contains a very useful explanation of "how it works".

Don´t try to find the arms In this model, the dial moves and the single clock arm is fixed!

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