cylonchaney

Hmmm. Which villain like bagels?

Minimate Masterworks is amazing. He has intagram and a Youtube channel, does minimate reviews, and has a name I'd not be embarrassed to associate my brand with. LOL Just saying. I'm pretty sure he was one of the entrants in Luke's last custom contest. And those were all great. https://www.instagram.com/minimatemasterworks/ https://www.youtube.com/@minimatemasterworks IMHO, this guy is a wonderful ambassador for the line.

Exactly why I'm making them.

I find numbers interesting sometimes. The final Raider.scad file, the instructions to render all the raider parts comes in at 1450 lines of code and takes 33.2 kb of drive space. Yes. That's kb. One could fit roughly 50 such files on an old school floppy disk! And that includes lots of blank lines and formatting to make it easy to read, as well as unused versions of some parts. If I zip it, the file is 5.6 kb. I didn't track it but I have dozens of hours into it. A labour of love. Using OpenSCAD to output the stl files (this is the input format for 3d printing), results in 33.7 MB of files. We end up with 13 or 14 files to make a Raider depending on canopy style. For the 3 pilot version, it took about 10 hours to print the main body piece. It's probably about 22 hours of print time in total. The smaller one prints a fair bit faster. Just because of the print time involved, I don't know if I'll be able to sell prints at a reasonable price. If you look at the prices charged for 3.75" scale vehicles of this type, it's ridiculous. But then the guy making them has a lot of hours into each one. For the Raider at least, you can download the plans for free and print one yourself (or get a friend to). I wonder what it would cost to print one on shapeways.com.

The Raiders have spiked up to become the most popular downloads on my thingiverse profile this week. Just wondering if any of those downloads was one of you guys? I'm psyched at the thought of somebody else printing one. I really gotta get back to the Viper and Starfighter. They are so close to finished. Since I started the Raider, I keep getting more and more ideas. I started on a "choppa" for Arnie to "get to". I want to do a Draconian Marauder to go with the Starfigher. Ecto 1 is now on my radar as well but just the idea of it so far. So, how about it? Any board members among my Raider download stats?

I refuse to watch him based on name alone. LOL

Added links to my Cylon Raider designs. See 1st post.

The Raider was printed on a 220 X 220 mm bed. It was designed for 3d printing and I think could be printed on a 150 mm bed actually. Let me know how it goes. Just uploaded to thingiverse. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5766423 And now the single-seat one. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5767185

This looks like it could stand in decently for a quinjet. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1422363

Looks great Luke!

My designs, so far, have been super-deformed with an eye to fitting in with factory DST mini-flyers. You can see the Viper MK II I printed above. (to be clear, I did not design this one) That design is still quite deformed but less so than the DST style. Below is my in-progress Viper MK I, DST style. Is it better if my Viper matches the DST style or is less deformed like the MK II?

I think my Raider design is done. It can be a bit fiddly to properly close the canopy but good enough for me. Engineering Pro Tip: If you are designing a vehicle for a Cylon, don't use a blank or Kor as your test fit. Can you hear the "Doh!" echoing across the world right now? LOL Yes. Because of his helmet, he's taller than others and the canopy will not close! Luckily, it's trivial to scale up 10% And now we can close the canopy. But Cylonchaney, you detail-oriented 70s scifi fanboy nerd, I hear you say, "Isn't the Cylon Raider a 3-man ship? And shouldn't an in-scale Cylon Raider be larger than a Viper and actually hold 3 Cylons?" Well, since we are upscaling anyway ... For scale, this is the 3-man version with the too small version, a factory Viper, and the thingiverse Viper I posted in the 3d files thread. Please bear in mind that close up photography of FDM 3d prints is never flattering. These things look way cooler in person. Also, photography is not one of my strong suits.

Zach, Please take note of the third place entry in Luke's recent custom contest. I currently own 0 Vinimates but would definitely buy that one.

Merry Christmas everyone! Still a couple of hours away for me technically but I'm in!

My feeling is almost the opposite. I think MacFarlane loves Trek and the jokes were the only way he could get it made. I really felt the clash of styles in the early episodes. But this last season was better Trek than any so-called real Trek made in recent times. I hope it gets more seasons. BTW, if you are a Scifi fan and have not seen The Expanse, you're missing out. One of the best scifi shows ever IMHO.

It was tough to vote. So many good candidates!

I really do admire this spirit Mr. PL. I need to be less of an angry fanboy sometimes. LOL

You might think mine is not, but here's a photo of me in the back yard.

Always had Old Man Biff's pants in mind if I were to make a Used Car Salesman custom. Add Muppet Newsman jacket and you might have a winner.

That's the kind of praise that might convince me to give it another chance. What I like about Prodigy is I think they found a good way to go in a new direction while still having some respect for older canon. It's not just another generic crew doing the same thing. And I give it a break because it's a kids show.

I watched every episode of every show that came before. Of these I watched: 2 seasons of Discovery and lost interest. 1 episode of Lower Decks - to be fair probably was never gonna be for me anyway 1 Season of Picard - disgusted by this one 3 episodes of Strange New Worlds All of season 1 of Prodigy I actually liked Prodigy. Hated Picard. The rest just didn't catch my interest enough to keep watching. I'd be unlikely to buy merch from any of them. And I have a Bread and Circuses Kirk minimate. (more than one actually)

Have you ever heard of Steve Geppi? He definitely wins!

Any entries yet? I'm excited to see them. Contests always bring out some cool customs.

LOL How much you wanna pay? I was toying with the idea of setting up an etsy shop or something. I'll probably put at least one up somewhere as a free download. There's a Peacemaker helmet up on my thingiverse page. Right now I'm torn between a couple of projects but the Starfighter is coming along. The Raider is basically done. I just have to finish reworking the cockpit hinge.

Clamshells? What a fintastic idea! Let minnow if you find a seacret stash. My cod, these ocean puns are krilling me. Am I just fishing for laughs? Dolpinately.