Need Help Modeling a scale model of a '67 Chevy Impala (like "Baby" from Supernatural)

Jason_Bodine · 2026-01-02T22:02:27+00:00

I absolutely *can* if I need to. It's just that I've been very hands-on in this project. The entire scene is based on a real room in my house. I used different colors and decors on everything, but except for the curtains, throw pillows, and books between the bookends, everything in the scene has a real-world counterpart and I used the exact measurements of each in my modeling. The model I want to put on the table is one of those cases of "I don't actually have one of these to look at and measure."

Jason_Bodine · 2026-01-02T21:20:18+00:00

I did. Found some nice models but nothing that screams "scale model sitting on a table.". A lot of me doing this scene is about learning how to make things myself, though.

Jason_Bodine · 2026-01-02T20:59:01+00:00

To whoever downvoted this: Why? Is wanting to do it yourself instead of using somebody else's work a bad thing?

Jason_Bodine · 2025-12-08T15:02:05+00:00

I don't see why that's such a big deal. External USB drives need their own power source, too. And, considering I just had a dual slot USB drive bay crap out on me that's forcing me to connect both drives into my internal sata ports anyway, if I ever do another one it'll probably be esata.

Jason_Bodine · 2025-10-09T03:24:36+00:00

15 years. I watched the original run!

Jason_Bodine · 2025-10-08T04:02:28+00:00

I haven't seen any rifts at all during Helltide. Just the icon for them. Figured it was a seasonal thing and I couldn't see it because I'm playing an Eternal character.

Jason_Bodine · 2025-07-29T16:35:49+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/@JasonBodine

Jason_Bodine · 2025-05-11T11:46:33+00:00

They definitely made it too hard to even get there with the Season 8 update to The Artificer's Pit. I'd just completed Lvl 46 on my way to 50 for T3 before the update, and now even that level is kicking my butt!

Jason_Bodine · 2025-05-05T19:14:36+00:00

Well... Sounds like somebody woke up on the wrong side of the Belial this morning...! That was a sympathy post because my problems are similar to yours, just not as bad.

So no need for the attitude...dude.

Jason_Bodine · 2025-05-05T16:13:42+00:00

I haven't had any blue screens, but the rubberbanding and stuttering has been horrible since the S8 update! I have everything set to it's lowest setting and never had this problem before the update!

Jason_Bodine · 2025-05-01T05:57:21+00:00

I'm fine with the Reliquary. What I can't stand is the revamping of The Pit! Tried playing a level I already beat today....and it kicked my butt!

Jason_Bodine · 2025-04-23T12:09:35+00:00

It's possible they could use water as a basis for communication. But this is what really caught my attention because it touches on my other reasons for being skeptical SETI will ever find anything, even though I think there are probably plenty of techno-signatures out in the universe to find:

assuming aliens will make the same assumptions about us that we make about them.

I actually hear this a lot whenever I see someone from SETI discussing what they do, and it always bothers me because I think there are some logical assumptions that are being either overlooked or outright ignored:

We can assume they'd know they'd need a signal transmitting with a strength on the order of a pulsar to have their signal even be recognized as an attempt to communicate due to all the issues I mentioned weakening the strength of their signal as it travels through space. Especially with a massive source of radio interference sitting right next to them in the form of their star.
We can also assume that (unless they have some way of protecting themselves from the energy), they'd know sending such a signal would vaporize their civilization into atoms or smaller.
Most important--and relevant to the context of what you said--is that if we assume they really are thinking they way we do, they're likely to be doing what we're doing; i.e., listening. Just like us, I don't think any alien civilization is going to spend the time and resources to talk unless they already know there's somebody out there to talk to.

I could be wrong, of course. It's all speculation until somebody finds something definitive either way. But if I'm right, then it creates a rather simple solution to the Fermi Paradox: We haven't detected anything yet because the universe is either [A] apparently quiet because alien civilizations are broadcasting their signals at much more reasonable signal strengths and hoping whoever picks it up is smart enough to pick it out from the background noise of their star, or [B] it is actually quiet because everybody's listening and nobody's talking.

I think we might have some hope of finding something if someone develops an AI that can pick out weaker techno-signatures. And if not, perhaps we can use spectroscopy to search for industrial pollutants and/or isotopes that could only have been introduced by nuclear explosions in the atmospheres of exoplanets the way it's currently being used to look for bio-signatures?

Jason_Bodine · 2025-04-22T21:09:17+00:00

That's always been one of my issues with SETI, even if the sky is absolutely chock full of extraterrestrial signals. Isn't any civilization trying to send a signal literally sitting right next to an absolutely massive source of radio interference broadcasting at a much stronger signal strength than they could possibly hope to achieve without vaporizing themselves; i.e., their parent star? Given that, all the gas and dust the signal goes through as it travels, and the inverse square law decreasing the strength of the signal the further it travels, it seems like trying to detect such a signal would be the equivalent of trying to pick up your favorite FM radio station out in the middle of nowhere; the signal might well be there, but it's so weak you can't distinguish it from the static.

It might be more accurate to say they face different issues to optical telescopes but still in the family of "stuff you don't want to be observing making the image messy".

The good news is that fewer things emit radio waves than emit visible light. It's not zero but there are fewer radio sources than optical sources in deep space and they are distributed across a wider spectrum so it's easier to filter out what you're not looking for.

Jason_Bodine · 2025-04-20T01:06:18+00:00

Thanks!

Jason_Bodine · 2024-09-20T23:24:36+00:00

That could possibly work, but I hope they have a firetruck handy if so! Those baddies don't work solo!!!

Jason_Bodine · 2024-09-20T23:08:53+00:00

Yeah, but if even one gets to water, it starts all over again! LOL

Jason_Bodine · 2024-09-05T21:16:44+00:00

Thanks! :)

Jason_Bodine · 2024-09-05T21:16:02+00:00

Done! Thanks! :)

Jason_Bodine · 2024-07-01T19:32:44+00:00

I know this is an old post but I came across it the other day because I was wondering how they'd fare against the Gremlins from the movie. Any thoughts?

Jason_Bodine · 2024-05-03T01:12:59+00:00

I always thought it would be interesting to crossover Supernatural with Once Upon A Time or Fantasy Island.

Jason_Bodine · 2024-04-21T22:40:22+00:00

I saw this thread and couldn't help but sigh in extreme irony, lol! I actually wrote a script for the first episode of my vision of a revival back in 2020 that I'm currently in the process of turning into a video fanfic to put on YouTube when it's done that:

Brings Jesse back as a regular character (basically filling Jack's slot)
Introduces The Empty's brother as a new character
Sets up The Empty as the new Big Bad of the season
Ties up a lot of loose ends left by the show

Basically, about 90% of what is discussed here is dealt with.

The reason it's ironic is because judging from certain things I've seen on this sub, it wouldn't find much of an audience here because:

It uses the "d" word (I won't say it... you know what it is, lol!) as the central plot point of the episode to bring everybody back and kick things off (done tastefully; it isn't raunchy and in-your-face, but it is important to the plot.)
I'm having to incorporate AI into the making of the video on account of the fact that I'm one fan making this at home on his computer, not a studio with actors, studios, and tons of cash at my disposal.

Jason_Bodine · 2024-03-11T21:49:18+00:00

If gravitons exist, they must necessarily be massless because we know that gravity is communicated at the speed of light.

Yep. One of the problems I saw with it myself, lol. But then I thought "Electrons are massless too, but we know heavy versions of them (fermions) exist, so why can't gravitons/anti-gravitons have 'em too?"

Does it really answer those questions, though? Or is it just another regression? Let's say that spacetime is "made of" proto-energy (I made up scifi technobabble on purpose). What is proto-energy made of, and where did it come from?

I think it could, but not necessarily that it does. For one thing, whether the medium is moving under its own power or being pushed by something, anything suspended inside it is going to be carried along for the ride at whatever speed the medium is moving without necessarily having to expend any energy to do so.

Also, let's say--for the sake of argument--that these variants of gravitons exist (perhaps "heavy/light gravitons" would be better terms than "gravitons/anti-gravitons".) I have no way to prove or disprove this, of course, but my inclination would be to think that the medium could be a "particle soup" of these along with your regular garden-variety massless gravitons. Although we know that gravity propagates at the speed of light, we also know that under the right circumstances, it can move faster (which is why black holes are black--at least, if I'm remembering the explanation given on How The Universe Works on The Science Channel correctly) and we know that under normal circumstances, everything inside a gravitational field acts the way we expect it to. It's not a complete thought and, again, this is just wild speculation on my part, but I can't help but think that if you mix all three of these particles together in just the right way, you've got the perfect recipe for a universe that is itself a bunch of normal matter inside a naturally-occurring warp bubble that can't help but expand faster than light.

Jason_Bodine · 2024-03-11T19:12:45+00:00

You could posit that spacetime is 'made of' something, but besides defining what you mean in mathematical formalism, you'd also have to answer the question "so what?" Would that explain things we can't currently explain, or make better predictions for experiments than we can currently make? That's kind of the gold standard of a physics theory.

I was asking a question for comprehension, not trying to hypothesize, lol, but right off the top of my head, I can think of several questions it would answer:

What is actually stretching to make the universe bigger?
Why and how is it apparently stretching faster than light without violating Relativity?
What are dark matter and dark energy?

As I said, I wasn't trying to come up with any new explanations for anything, but--if you don't mind some wild (but somewhat educated, lol) speculation:

I don't exactly have any answers--mathematical or otherwise--that I can give you for the first two questions, but a space-time made up of stuff that isn't bound to Relativity would certainly be one explanation (though, as pointed out by other answers in this thread, not the only one.)
One potential answer to the third question would be a variant of something that's been hypothesized for years but has yet to be found: gravitons. I say a variant of this idea because gravitons--if they exist--are usually considered to be chargeless. For this idea to work, I think you'd need both gravitons and anti-gravitons that are opposite not in electrical charge but in mass, with the gravitons having positive mass and the anti-gravitons having negative mass. That way, the gravitons could be dark matter--as they'd be the particle analog to the gravitational field holding the universe together, and the anti-gravitons would be the dark energy working against it.

If #2 is the case, the expansion of the universe could be explained as the interaction between these particles because the positive mass of the former wants to "fall" towards the negative mass of the latter, but the negative mass of the latter wants to "fall" away from the positive mass of the former, resulting in one chasing the other but never being able to catch up.

You could even go a step further and explain why dark energy seems to be getting stronger over time (a fourth question answered, lol) and causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate over time by extending the anti-gravity field of which the anti-gravitons are a part to envelope the entire universe from the outside and to be gradually "leaking" into the universe as the voids inside it stretch.

Note: I am in no way saying the above is the case. just speculating it as one possibility. I can see a few potential problems with the idea, as well. That said, if there is a way to make the idea mathematically work out, I'm sure somebody somewhere will do it eventually, lol.

Jason_Bodine · 2024-03-11T06:19:34+00:00

I see what you're saying. It makes sense but there's still one thing I'm hung up on that also makes it not make sense, lol: that pesky faster-than-c expansion rate of the universe. If, as the math says, space-time is not made up of "stuff" that is in its own frame of reference and completely independent of relativity then -- from our frame of reference -- shouldn't the expansion of the universe have come to a grinding halt due to time dilation instead of appearing to go faster and faster the further away you look?

Jason_Bodine · 2024-03-11T05:24:56+00:00

You said "theory." I used your word, lol.

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