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I didn't see what bhm was doing there until you wrote it out. LOL Was Padrino's guess a purposeful setup?

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Thanks! Looking forward to finishing this one so I can have one. LOL Not sure why it was not on my list before.

I think I'm done with the main shape of the ship and functional parts. It's down to adding a bit more detail and some panel lines. The darker ship is mine. The other two are for reference as I build. I'm thinking about doing an Enterprise D, Voyager, and maybe some shuttles. Would the Defiant be a good ship for Sisko? All of the captains deserve something to captain.

If a Klingon Minimate could smile ... well he probably still wouldn't. But my Kor Minimate has never been so happy to be the test fit model for a ship! Progress continues: By the way, does anyone have any brilliant ideas for play elements or features aside from holding a Minimate? The Enterprise fuselage opens up to have Scotty in a Jefferies tube. I can't really think of much else to do here but you never know what someone might think of. If anyone's got a brilliant idea, I'd love to hear it. I don't think there will be room to fit another Mate in anywhere. But maybe something else. I do plan to make a stand so it can face off against the Enterprise.

Happy Holidays everyone!

Great work! Those look amazing.

Nice. Will there be hang mate?

When I couldn't convince Ivan to share back in the day I had to learn how to do it myself. Took years. In between, another board member shared a design they had done but there were issues with joints fitting so I started working on individual parts to solve that problem. Eventually, I had the hardest ones done and decided to just finish off my own design 100%. It was very rewarding to print my first pose-able figure.

Hairpiece and stickers can be found at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6391173. The stickers were made and editable in Inkscape if you need to tweek. Also note that I used clear sticker paper so there is no skin coloring. Inkscape and the bucket tool can fix that for you if you need. The Bat'Leth is probably this one but I'm not sure. I had to scale up the thickness a little to fit the hands well. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:55100 Good luck! Post a photo when you make him.

If he does DST style scaling there are Sentinels of various versions and other large bots I assume.

While it all goes mostly over my head, I love the level of comic fandom on this board. I bet it gets sleuthed out pretty soon here.

Just some notes on design techniques I'm picking up along the way. We've seen before, I tend to want to design my vehicles to be too small for their pilots. So, now I put a pilot model in before I even carve out the cockpit. Have to make sure they will fit. It feels to me like companion vehicles of similar size should fit within a similar box. As I want to make stand for the D7 and pose it with the Enterprise, I popped a couple of cubes into my workspace and scaled my reference models to fit within. The distance between is what I measured the Enterprise to be. It occurs to me me now that it would be easier to put it all inside a single cube and see what sticks out. My model is the darker one. I'm starting to think about how to carve this one up for 3d printing. Sometimes one can affect the other. For example, the front of the main body where the neck attaches on the realistic model and on mine is curved. If I flatten mine like the model on the right, it could be oriented for 3d printing ideally to capture the most detail possible and in one piece. Any other option involves cutting the model or having support material which does not leave a nice surface. In that case I'd probably cut it and try to make my cut where a panel line makes sense or the seam might somehow look like part of the model. It should be easy enough to flatten the backside and print back to front. But then the print is getting wider as you go up. This may turn out OK, but the type of printer I have generally creates a nicer finish if your object slopes towards center as you go up and creates a worse finish the greater the outward slope. After a certain angle of outward slope, support material will be required. It will almost certainly have a nicer finish if we can go front to back. I've carved in the cockpit and separated what will be the "canopy" piece.

Thanks! Do you have access to 3d printing in some way? The Bat'Leth is from thingiverse. I can send you the file for the hairpiece and head stickers. You have the skills and resources to take it from there. If you need me to send you 3d printed stuff, maybe we can work something out.

Coming along quickly. My version is the middle one.

I was thinking. All of those Enterprises and no one for Kirk to battle ... I'm trying to scale it to a similar size to the Enterprise and hold at least one mate. Then I'll make a Klingon emblem stand and it can oppose the enterprise. Perhpaps a Reliant one day for the ultimate battle that we already have mates for. No Bottany Bay unless I become deathy bored.

As usual my photography skills are not helping. Now published to thingiverse if anyone wants to make one. I put up the Draconian helmet as well.

It took them 22 years to put out the first set and you're complaining that we didn't get a third this year? I'd say that second set came out pretty quickly considering. Does this mean Godfather, Rocky 3 and Bruce Lee are still coming?

I'm guessing some came from here https://www.shapeways.com/designer/keldor. Search shapeways for minimates and you might find some more. Edit: The actual minimates don't sort to the front of the search that well. There is also https://www.shapeways.com/designer/dava79. I believe this store is multiverser Dave who is still active here. Tons of cool stuff in this one!

First prototype. I don't have any brown PLA. One of my printers can print in two colours or mix them. This is a blend of black and red but they don't blend together as much as you'd like. I need to redo the underside detail and make the ship a bit shorter. Looks like a good match in the photo but in person the Marauder is looks just a little to big to go with the Starfighter. In any case, I'm pretty happy with how it's going and don't think it will take too many more iterations before I'm done. Still not happy with the canopy but I think I've captured the general look of the ship fairly well. I need to get some brown plastic.

Those are awesome! I especially like Stratos.

Never occurred to me until today. I need a Mick Dundee Minimate. Such a great movie.

Hmm. That leaves us plenty of time for rampant speculation and reading way too deep into Zach's words once again. Spring was obviously a clue. The cover of GI Joe Magazine - Spring 1988 has Alf on it. We're getting Alf Minimates! Zach confirmed it. Or maybe it's a vehicle clue that we're getting the Desert Fox.

Amazing stuff! You practically are the Minimate customizing community these days.