{"id":1487,"date":"2014-05-14T12:39:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T12:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2014-09-16T14:35:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T14:35:50","slug":"shapeways-printed-konami-eagle-landing-pad-diorama-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=1487","title":{"rendered":"Shapeways-Printed Konami Eagle Launch Pad Diorama Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago now I modeled a <a title=\"Today\u2019s Print Project: A Display Base for my Space 1999 Konami Eagle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=594\">forced-perspective display base for the 4&#8243; Konami Eagles<\/a>, for printing on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afinia.com\/\">Afinia H479 3D printer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sample, printed on my printer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/konami-eagle-on-stand.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-604\" src=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/konami-eagle-on-stand.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/konami-eagle-on-stand.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/konami-eagle-on-stand-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to see the detail because the sub-surface light scattering on this particular plastic hides the ambient light and detail.<\/p>\n<p>I made my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:136998\">model available on Thingiverse<\/a>, a repository of free downloadable models.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Scheloske, a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/space1999merchandise\/\">Space: 1999 Merchandise facebook group<\/a>, sent my model to Shapeways for printing. He had it printed in the various colors, but then added paint detail (including the landing lights that I completely left off my original model &#8211; but intend to add in) and here was his result:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/konami-eagle-landing-pad-marco-scheloske-shapeways.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/konami-eagle-landing-pad-marco-scheloske-shapeways-600x410.jpg\" alt=\"konami-eagle-landing-pad-marco-scheloske-shapeways\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/konami-eagle-landing-pad-marco-scheloske-shapeways-600x410.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/konami-eagle-landing-pad-marco-scheloske-shapeways-439x300.jpg 439w, http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/konami-eagle-landing-pad-marco-scheloske-shapeways.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I have to do this myself! I must send this away to Shapeways, and though it was a bit expensive &#8211; he says about 40 Euros for him &#8211; I must have one, to see what the quality is like.<\/p>\n<p>For that matter, maybe it&#8217;s time I opened up a Shapeways shop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago now I modeled a forced-perspective display base for the 4&#8243; Konami Eagles, for printing on my Afinia H479 3D printer. Here is a sample, printed on my printer: It&#8217;s hard to see the detail because the sub-surface &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=1487\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}