Another Whitworth Snap

Almost there... I just have to do some work on the joints.

Hopefully I can keep my eye on the ball for a bit longer. I got my hands on a 1/100th scale Phalanx/Longbow and there's a Cygnus (Disney's Black Hole) on the way. distractions, distractions...

Whitworth Update

Got a little bit of work done on the 3D Whitworth model this weekend. Give me til Christmas, I'm sure I can have one ready for auction by then! :-P

Battletech auctions

Just posted the first two Battletech auctions for this Christmas; a Flea and a Vulcan. In about a week I will be auctioning another Urbanmech and a Scorpion. Finally, the piece-de-la-resistance, sometime around the beginning of December, I will be auctioning a 1/100th scale Hatamoto Chi. To check out all of the auctions on ebay, click here.

2011 Christmas Auctions Starting This Weekend!!!

I've just posted the first of our 2001: Space Odyssey Christmas Ornament auctions over on e-bay. I've got the EVA POD, RUSSIAN POD and the MOONBUS up so far. Once I've done a little stress testing on the new spines, I'll be putting the new and improved DISCOVERY up for auction as well. As I said, these are just the initial listings. We should be auctioning somewhere between 4 and 6 of each of these between now and Dec 11.

I should have a couple of BATTLETECH auctions running as well by the end of Sunday.

Click here to see all the auction action as it happens!

2001 Space Ornaments Coming Soon

We got busy on the weekend and did the casting for about a half dozen EVA Pods and a few Discoveries. Assembling, sanding and priming is going on as I speak. Should have them up for auction on E-Bay in about another week or so.

The Discoveries now have steel reinforced spines. I'll do some stress testing vs the old design before I put them up for auction...

V-FLASH Users?

Any other V-FLASH users out there?

1/60th Scale Vulcan

I've been enlisted to produce a series of 1/60th versions of some of my mechs (Hi Scott!) and so we're starting with some of the smaller ones. This weekend I printed out the 1/60th scale Vulcan.

HAL did a good job with no noticeable deformation in the parts. Bigger models seem to be less susceptible to warpage during the build. The only fly in the ointment is a piece of support structure that it put into the bayonette mount for the torso - it'll take some finessing to remove.

Speaking of HAL, I'd had a word with the V-Flash tech about the build tray sensor (which we just defeated in software) and why certain models were dying in the middle of the print job. The tech ran some remote tests and couldn't determine why it shouldn't be able to complete a print job. My suspicion is that it is due to heat cuz he isn't doing it any more (I was trying to print those POMO animals in the dog days of summer and HAL probably wasn't liking that). Its not like the CPU is shutting down, but maybe just the imaging section. That's why the job keeps running and the gantry and resin feed keeps moving, but nothing is printing. Just my thoughts. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd stick some temperature sensors in there and log temperature... meh, later. He's working OK fer now.