My animations of the P08 at YouTube
 

Hello,

My name is Andreas - I live in Germany (near Stuttgart).
Just like you, I am fascinated by the P08 – so I love this lugerforum – many thanks for this great site!

Recently I published two animations of the P08 on YouTube.

I modeled the pistol in CAD according to the original blueprints (I bought them at ebay as paper-copies)
Then I animated the model by using photorealistic rendering.

The videos are published in high quality resolution (1280 x 720)
If you push the "HD"-button within the YouTube-video-frame and get to the full-screen-mode, you can see the animations in an astonishing quality…

http://www.3d-machines.de/priv/Forum...ionsleiste.JPG

The first video shows the entire P08:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReaPCOSwZ7g&hd=1


The second video shows the action of the firing pin with some parts cut, faded out or made transparent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEdRo0g-Mp8&hd=1


Hope you enjoy my little animations…

Greetings
Andreas...:)

Andreas,

Nice job. The mechanics are correctly displayed.

I did enjoy it very much! Great job. It is a very good lesson in Luger mechanics, partucularly for those folks that can't quite figure out how the sear disconnector works.

Andreas, welcome to the forum. Thanks for posting the links. You did a beautiful job.

Charlie

Let me add my welcome. A great job using the small paper blueprints.

Check the For Sale forum... I sell a CD with high quality digital images of the 1918 blueprints for P.08... it might have made your task a little easier. The digital images are much easier to read.

I watched close, looked accurate, very well done.

Ed