cylonchaney

Great stuff! I really like the first character, the black ninja guy.

Is there a super hero with "golem" in the name? The texture looks a bit muddy, I'm thinking on purpose. And I believe there is a thing in Jewish folklore called a golem that is a mud-man brought to life in some supernatural manner. Apologies if I've got anything wrong there. No idea on the torsos. But there are some keen eyes here. I bet you get an answer.

PS Perhaps some version of or similar character to https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Golem_(Smoke_Elves)_(Earth-616)

4 hours ago, buttheadsmate said:

No attempt at humour in the following , I'm deadly serious :-

I'm occasionally caught out by my Englishness on a predominantly American forum so I need to be specific & I do not intend to be patronising in the following daydream .

In the UK it is a tradition at Easter to gift kids chocolate 'Easter eggs' , I am unsure whether this is traditional in the US ,if it is then skip the next bit ...or the whole post if you like 

A chocolate Easter egg can be just about any size but generally it is a standard size , about the size of an adult's hand & consist of a thin shell of chocolate . These are then wrapped in ornate aluminium foil & thence into generally beautifully ,themed,printed boxes . These are 'big business' , BIG business. 

Often these eggs contain 'whatever/gifts/chocolates' .....an idea that a US company called Kinder make by the million . I don't live in the US so I'm unsure whether Kinder do eggs this size .

So in my daydream Nickelodeon are approached with this idea , they make an Easter egg ,which is in essence a TMNT Blimp , an ornately foil -wrapped incarnation .  

I leave it to anybody left reading this post to guess what I'd pack inside the chocolate egg !

 

Yes. We have Easter and chocolate eggs.

Kinder eggs are not allowed in the US. They will confiscate them at the border. We are allowed them in Canada.

Are you sure it's a US company? It would be funny if it really is, and they can't even sell their eggs there.

https://fee.org/articles/why-these-popular-chocolate-easter-eggs-are-banned-in-the-us-despite-being-legal-almost-everywhere-else/

18 minutes ago, buttheadsmate said:

Wow !!

No suggestions from me about your next project 

-blimpheadsmate

LOL I bet my (not so) psychic powers could reveal your thoughts on this.

I have concerns about working on anything where the line is active.

I'd hate for DST to not make a vehicle because "Look at all these 3d printed ones they've already made".  Maybe my ego is way too big there. LOL My vehicles aren't exactly burning up the internet. But I've yet to make one for an active popular property.

On the other hand, maybe if one was popular enough they might make a factory one seeing that there is demand. Idk. I'd happily move forward if I thought that might be the case. Barring any feedback to support this idea I'll probably continue to try to fill holes in inactive lines though.

I'm not worried that I might have killed the market for classic Vipers and Cylon Raiders. I'm pretty comfortable that DST were not about to release those but killed their project because of me.

It goes the other way too. I recall when Minimates were more popular, people lamenting that they had a custom in the works and we got a factory version before they could finish. Much less of a concern with vehicles, but still. I'd hate to just finish my turtle blimp and Zach announces a new partnership and vehicle deal. LOL

Stickers are up. There's another one done. Thinking about what my next project should be. I was thinking about a movie Enterprise for Admiral Kirk. Maybe a shuttlecraft. There's always the Aliens dropship project lurking in the background.

I've been thinking about more wheeled vehicles. If I build myself a customizable 4 wheel base, it could be used as a starting point for a number of vehicles. I've also thought about Minimatizing some Joe vehicles starting with the HISS.

My gut says shuttlecraft. The way I work, I can make a trek shipyards project. Pretty much every Federation ship has similar looking nacelles, for example. And a saucer section is quite common. Even when I was playing around there was a lot to share between the Enterprise and the Reliant.

We will see what inspires me next I guess.

I was just saying you're both awesome.

The two kings of Minimate QCs. Perhaps some friendly competition will be sparked.

Looking forward to what see what comes.

Casey Jones is my favorite non-turtle character.

If anyone wants to make their own:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6448613

I have to say a big thank you to Kor. Klingons are not known for their patience. And he has been a constant volunteer test pilot through all of these ship designs, all the while never complaining that he had to walk home. As a reward and a thank you for all his hard work me and the boys at the Multiverse Vehicle Factory chipped in and got him his own set of wheels. Here's to you Kor.  Thanks for all your hard work buddy. Be careful drag racing with those Federation rich kids!

For those unfamiliar with Klingons, he's absolutely over the moon. You can tell from his expression.

It's a tiny bit bigger than it should be to pose with the Enterprise. But I think it's close enough that I will probably just publish as is.

Looking good!

8 hours ago, Padrino said:

The King and Queen

 

https://imgur.com/E6QNL4m

3 hours ago, Freaqualizer said:

Getting more of these off of the work desk. 
 

https://imgur.com/a/6PoHpGz

from L to R: 

Vermin (pretty much just Werewolf By Night with hair and a tail) 

Lauri-Ell

King Cobra

Fang

Yuri Topolov or Gremlin or Gargoyle. Whichever you’d prefer. 

Genesis - Tyler Dayspring

Bug

Nice work guys.

That Fang character head reminds me of the Immortal from Invincible.

5 hours ago, elhonez said:

My xacto is always ready.

Be careful. The Sword of Exact Zero is very powerful.

There's another idea started that I'll probably feel compelled to complete one day.

6 hours ago, buttheadsmate said:

Only 'big' if you want it to be big . The minimate vehicle design 'model' has always been 'deformed' so I was thinking keep it similar size to nigh on everything else .  Other Blimps are nice but too big to go on a shelf.

Something like this?

I like this idea. They could make the balloon part open like a silly putty egg and pack the parts or some turtle mates inside. Open and assemble!

I think it could be made to work.

Edit: Thinking further this would work for DST's tooling re-use. They could make a blimp for each turtle, like Enterprises for each captain. Completionists would have to buy 4. Not to mention battle damaged, etc. Why am I giving them this idea? LOL

1 hour ago, buttheadsmate said:

* it would therefore be inflation-proof

Good thing because prices have ballooned these days. They're already sky high. Good of you to float the idea.

Some would say I'm full of hot air, but I think a Kraang-bot Vinimate could really take off.

I'm using a low end office grade colour laser printer for my sticker work that I picked up for fairly cheap.

I just discovered the other day while googling about a different problem, that my printer has a web interface for some of the settings and that one of those settings is the default dpi which is 600 out of the box but can be set to 1200. So I logged in and made the change.

But once again, I have no stickers that I need to print. I'm just dying to see if it makes any difference. I don't know much about graphics and printers. I'm hoping to see some improvement next time though.

Anyway, just thought I'd share this idea. If you're trying to output the best stickers possible, it might be an idea to research your hardware and see if there are any performance settings you can tweak. I'll update when I finally have something to print again. Fingers crossed. The anticipation is killing me.

As another ship gets close to completion, playing with some shapes for more ideas.

Nice work.

3 hours ago, buttheadsmate said:

My lack of comment in this thread is not relative to my absolute love of it . Stunning work .

 

 

Thanks. It's always nice when someone likes your work.

I stalled and got a bit side-tracked designing a part to hopefully reduce wobble in one of my printers. It's another hobby of mine, keeping my crappy old first printer running and trying to improve it. I could buy one for peanuts now that would print better quality out of the box. But where's the fun in that?

I'll be back to it before too long though.

Looking forward to seeing them.