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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Exercises in Unfutility]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Always impressed with your work. Please keep sharing the photos as they look great.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[wire10ga]]></name>
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			<updated>2015-01-24T16:11:24Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Exercises in Unfutility]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Hey there people,</p><p>Just thought I&#039;d blob a bunch of Pix of&nbsp; my recent Star Trek print projects, some of which I&#039;ll be making into kits for sale.</p><p>Though my love for home printing is strong I couldn&#039;t really justify not spending the extra money on prints from Shapeways due to their(usually) better quality.</p><p><strong>Odyssey class 1/2500 saucer separable:</strong> In the White strong and flexible material. It&#039;s quite an odd material, it eats any spray filler used as it&#039;s not really solid in all places, my guess is that the density is akin to an FDM printers infill setting though much more variable.<br />You&#039;ll note that a few of the parts have snapped off bits that were damaged during the post-production process before leaving the SW building, as a result SW are sending me another, hopefully less dead, version of this model. Though evidently the problems weren&#039;t difficult to fix with a little bit of bondo.</p><p><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/2n9rcMd.jpg" alt="http://i.imgur.com/2n9rcMd.jpg" /></span><br /><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/Ub51G8U.jpg" alt="http://i.imgur.com/Ub51G8U.jpg" /></span><br /><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/D12Yjty.jpg" alt="http://i.imgur.com/D12Yjty.jpg" /></span><br /><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/YpRDhHP.jpg" alt="http://i.imgur.com/YpRDhHP.jpg" /></span></p><p>And for the Trek fans out there, just to give one an idea of the proximate scale.</p><p><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/Y1YKEP2.png" alt="http://i.imgur.com/Y1YKEP2.png" /></span></p><br /><p>Next up is the Avenger class 400m long pure warship... that would probably make Gene Roddenberry cry if he were still alive. It was printed in the Frosted Ultra Detail. I must say... I&#039;m quite enamoured with this material. It makes me want to invest in a Form1 quite a lot. This is also in 1/2500 scale.</p><p>Gallery: <a href="http://imgur.com/a/0gqVC">http://imgur.com/a/0gqVC</a></p><p>And last on my current list is a Vesta class explorer that I&#039;ve been working on thanks to the fact that I&#039;ve finally learnt how to use NURBS as a modelling technique. This one I&#039;ll be printing at home on my OrdBot in 1/1000 scale so it ends up at 672mm long. A main display piece that&#039;ll sit in a display case that I&#039;ll salvaging from an old queen sized mattress frame.<br />I&#039;ve taken Mark Rademakers recent, and amazing, refit work and used a bunch of references from both Star Trek Online and other 3D models available around the net to create a sort of hybrid of the various Vesta&#039;s around the place. <br />Might also light up the impulse drives(red) and the deflector dish(blue), easy enough to accomplish with some EL sheeting and transparent parts.</p><p><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/DCL4Mgq.jpg" alt="http://i.imgur.com/DCL4Mgq.jpg" /></span><br /><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/OFrGqaP.jpg" alt="http://i.imgur.com/OFrGqaP.jpg" /></span><br /><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/9tqCXSV.jpg" alt="http://i.imgur.com/9tqCXSV.jpg" /></span><br /><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/vYKCHk0.jpg" alt="http://i.imgur.com/vYKCHk0.jpg" /></span><br /><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/aIa20fJ.jpg" alt="http://i.imgur.com/aIa20fJ.jpg" /></span></p><p>There is also some work happening on a version of the station designed to replace DS9 after it explodes in one of the post-TNG/DS9 novels in the Typhon Pact series. But that&#039;s a lot less evolved at this point. I believe the model was concepted by Trek veteran Doug Drexler.<br /><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/HEjzJf0.jpg" alt="http://i.imgur.com/HEjzJf0.jpg" /></span></p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Serin]]></name>
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			<updated>2015-01-24T03:20:26Z</updated>
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