Who's my Tiger?

[RedRamage]

I need help guys... I'm trying to decide to who add next? I think thinking maybe Jack Morris? Or maybe Lolich? I don't feel like there's any current Tigers who are super star level, at least right now. Well, other than Skubal but I already have him. 

 

[Hongbit]

McGonigle! 

Those are super cool. What’s the story behind them. 

[theroundsquare]

am i not seeing kaline there?  he might be a good choice

 

EDIT: is that him way in the back?  i think you could reasonably have any number of others. gibson, magglio both come to mind as being big parts of tigers lore

Edited yesterday at 03:46 PM by theroundsquare

[RedRamage]

16 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

McGonigle! 

Not a chance! You think I'm gonna risk fate by adding him to be collection of star Tigers? Fate'll take on look at that go: Nope! Too soon my friend, and then he'll have a career ending injury. You think I want that on my head? No way. 5 years from now? Sure... but not now.

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Those are super cool. What’s the story behind them. 

I used to collect Bobbleheads for Lions and Tigers... but I started running into two problems: First, they didn't always make bobbleheads of the players I wanted, especially old star players. Second, and more importantly: They started getting SUPER expensive! Like $40-$60 for some of them. It just got hard to mentally justify dropping that on something that just sits on my shelf, ya know? So I really had to think about what I wanted to do going forward.

Around this time I'd also gotten a 3D printer so I was sorta thinking about whether there was something I could do with that... maybe print little plastic jerseys or something... but I just couldn't find anything that I thought would be cool looking or interesting, and I certainly wasn't good enough to digitally sculpt anything, so I sort dismissed this.

I honestly was in a bit of a funk thinking about what I was going to do. I mean, I know it's stupid to get depressed about something like sports "statues" and it's not like I was majorly depressed, but I was a little bummed

Literally two days after coming to the decision that I was going to have to give up bobbleheads and being bummed about it, I was scrolling through youtube and saw a video on a piece of software called HueForge... and it all clicked together.

So now once or twice a year I add a new "statue" by finding a good picture, cutting it out in inkscape, manipulate it a bit, create a 3D model with HueForge and make my own memorabilia. Much cheaper, and as long as I can find a decent picture I can do it of whatever player I want.

[RedRamage]

11 minutes ago, theroundsquare said:

am i not seeing kaline there?  he might be a good choice

 

EDIT: is that him way in the back?  i think you could reasonably have any number of others. gibson, magglio both come to mind as being big parts of tigers lore

Yes, you are correct. Kaline is in the back. I'm iffy on Magglio. Not sure if he was a Tiger long enough. Gibson's probably a good one to consider too.

[theroundsquare]

i agree on maggs being iffy.  my thinking was between his home run in 2006 and the batting championship in 2007 he might qualify.  gibson seems higher in the pecking order to me, as is lance parrish for being such a big part of the 1980s teams

 

[CMU97]

John Hiller

15 years a Tiger, backbone of the bullpen during their late 60's early 70's run,

[monkeytargets39]

Tettleton

[Screwball]

1 hour ago, RedRamage said:

Not a chance! You think I'm gonna risk fate by adding him to be collection of star Tigers? Fate'll take on look at that go: Nope! Too soon my friend, and then he'll have a career ending injury. You think I want that on my head? No way. 5 years from now? Sure... but not now.

I used to collect Bobbleheads for Lions and Tigers... but I started running into two problems: First, they didn't always make bobbleheads of the players I wanted, especially old star players. Second, and more importantly: They started getting SUPER expensive! Like $40-$60 for some of them. It just got hard to mentally justify dropping that on something that just sits on my shelf, ya know? So I really had to think about what I wanted to do going forward.

Around this time I'd also gotten a 3D printer so I was sorta thinking about whether there was something I could do with that... maybe print little plastic jerseys or something... but I just couldn't find anything that I thought would be cool looking or interesting, and I certainly wasn't good enough to digitally sculpt anything, so I sort dismissed this.

I honestly was in a bit of a funk thinking about what I was going to do. I mean, I know it's stupid to get depressed about something like sports "statues" and it's not like I was majorly depressed, but I was a little bummed

Literally two days after coming to the decision that I was going to have to give up bobbleheads and being bummed about it, I was scrolling through youtube and saw a video on a piece of software called HueForge... and it all clicked together.

So now once or twice a year I add a new "statue" by finding a good picture, cutting it out in inkscape, manipulate it a bit, create a 3D model with HueForge and make my own memorabilia. Much cheaper, and as long as I can find a decent picture I can do it of whatever player I want.

Couple of questions if you don't mind. I do 3D printing as well.

Are those images a flat picture mounted on a 3D modeled base? Are the pictures 3D printed as well. Kind of hard to tell from the picture. Did you use the HueForge software to create the base? IOW, is HueForge the 3D modeler? That's a start, and I hope that makes sense.

[RedRamage]

Just now, Screwball said:

Couple of questions if you don't mind. I do 3D printing as well.

Are those images a flat picture mounted on a 3D modeled base? Are the pictures 3D printed as well. Kind of hard to tell from the picture. Did you use the HueForge software to create the base? IOW, is HueForge the 3D modeler? That's a start, and I hope that makes sense.

Flat picture mounted on a 3D model base? Yes, kinda... the figure is mostly flat.

Are the pictures 3D printed too? Yes! HueForge lets you take a picture and then, more or less, assign colors for different layers. Because the layers are very thin you get "bleed through" of the colors to give different shading.

Did you use HueForge for the base? No. I just whipped up the base in OnShape, a free online CAD software.

Is HueForge the 3D Modeler? Yes. After you do the necessary work preparing your image and then setting it up in HueForge, it spits out an STL. You import this into your slicer, setup various things like the layer height, infill (100%), and at which layers it changes filament. (If you have a machine with multiple filament inputs you can just swap it, otherwise you'd have to pause printing, and change filament manually.)

[Screwball]

30 minutes ago, RedRamage said:

Flat picture mounted on a 3D model base? Yes, kinda... the figure is mostly flat.

Are the pictures 3D printed too? Yes! HueForge lets you take a picture and then, more or less, assign colors for different layers. Because the layers are very thin you get "bleed through" of the colors to give different shading.

Did you use HueForge for the base? No. I just whipped up the base in OnShape, a free online CAD software.

Is HueForge the 3D Modeler? Yes. After you do the necessary work preparing your image and then setting it up in HueForge, it spits out an STL. You import this into your slicer, setup various things like the layer height, infill (100%), and at which layers it changes filament. (If you have a machine with multiple filament inputs you can just swap it, otherwise you'd have to pause printing, and change filament manually.)

Thank you very much. That's is very helpful.

[NorthWoods]

Freehan.   Borderline HoF career.  15 years as a Tiger and only ever a Tiger.

From baseball reference.......

Hall of Fame Monitor

Batting - 84 (246th), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Hall of Fame Standards

Batting - 28 (413th), Average HOFer ≈ 50

JAWS

Catcher (16th):     44.7 career WAR | 33.7 7yr-peak WAR | 39.2 JAWS | 4.1 WAR/162   Average HOF C (out of 17):     53.7 career WAR | 34.9 7yr-peak WAR | 44.3 JAWS | 4.7 WAR/162

 

[IdahoBert]

Lolich is definitely worth worthy. As a kid, I kind of took him for granted, but he was steady and there when it mattered especially in the 68 World Series. 

[1984Echoes]

OLD School:

Hank Greenberg or Harry Heilmann.

Or to give Cobb some company: Wahoo Sam Crawford or Hughie "Ee-Yah!" Jennings...

(Actually, Heilmann qualifies there too...)

Edited 20 hours ago by 1984Echoes

[1984Echoes]

Since you've got Cochrane and Gehringer: Add Greenberg and Schoolboy Rowe...

[Tiger337]

16 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:

Since you've got Cochrane and Gehringer: Add Greenberg and Schoolboy Rowe...

I think Greenberg is already there.  Heilmann is a good choice.  Hal Newhouser too.  

[chasfh]

Willie Horton. Any such set is woefully incomplete without him.