u/mastermalpass

I cannot justify nearly £300 on figures right now, but oh man… Oh Man! 😬

This is a test print of a new starting template for such projects. I found its small round bandana look amusing and figured some of you may too.

What’s to come next? An Honourguard helmet? Or a Cowboy hat? The possibilities are endless! 😃

That took… A bit longer than I thought it was going to. Here’s hoping the shoulders aren’t gonna take me quite as many test prints to get right. 😅

Anyone else's figures had a dip since two weeks ago? Did you notice anything unusual?

Anyone have any tips on reinforcing this? I’m wondering if I can insert a little bit of wire or something. Would be nice to maintain articulation if possible.

If it comes down to it though, I’m happy to glue it in place and sacrifice articulation.

Recently got an old ‘03 RAV4, just got the AC regassed yesterday. Yesterday and today, with the car now able to cool its interior and the windshield along with that, I seem to be scooping the humidity out of the air when I approach the moors. Both down in the valley below the moors and up on them. If the wiper-streaks didn’t make it clear; that condensation is on the outside of the windshield.

My 2011 RAV4 never did this - not in warm weather at least. I don’t remember it happening much on my old 2000 Rover Civic (Y’know the Honda Civic that was basically a Rover 45) either, though I rarely went up to the moors back when I had that one.

Anyone else had this happen with their old cars?

Time to do some test prints. With this nozzle, it seems to just about manage all the finer details at a scale of 30mm bow-to-stern. Without being too fussy about which way up the parts are printed, I might add. Decided while I was running a test of the aft-Sponson, I will test the Chassis it’s mounting on to, along with what I’m assuming to be the Fusion reactor and the mid panelling that goes between the fore and aft sponsons.

I was going to print out the engines too, as there’s a whole internal thing with gears and stuff going on there, but found the three-piece chassis to be a bit too fragile in places while the mounting points designed to key into each other, aren’t keying into each other so well. I’ve already redesigned the chassis to be thicker and allow for more space within mounting holes for mounting notches, but it turns out, tweaking the design of the chassis takes far less time than printing it out! 😂

Oddly enough, many of the outer pieces - pieces I haven’t yet designed any specific mounts for - just snapped on to the chassis like Lego. The Sponson is actually what’s holding the rear half of the chassis onto the front half in these pics. Though the top details are just sitting on the chassis - not completely flush (suspect due to the chassis being a bit deformed at this point), I’m pleasantly surprised. I thought I was gonna have to whip out the glue gun to see how these parts looked when assembled and in the end all I needed was a couple bits of Blu Tac to keep that dorsal radiator block from falling down.

Bit daunting to think of my plan of sticking little pieces of coloured lighting gels over certain windows l then sticking a bunch of LEDs inside it. Even with this skinny-framed chassis, it’s turning out to be a bit of a tank; big and bulky on the outside, really cramped on the inside!

Welp, only way to know if it’ll work is to surge forward. Hopefully it won’t be another 8.5 months ‘til my next update on this project. 😅

It’s a bit rusty. And being ‘03 as opposed to my ‘11 one on the left, it doesn’t have as many features… No heated seats (although apparently all but 2 variants in this generation had heated seats and this is one of them 😅). But it DOES have a sunroof/moonroof AND a spare wheel, which the other one doesn’t.

Feels a lot more light and nippy though - more like what the RAV4 was made to be. I’ll certainly miss my old (which is newer) RAV4, but my new (which is older) RAV4 will do.

Inspired by yesterday's post from u/Actually-Will

The ad for this one had pics of it in just one pose, two pics of it propped at an angle against a box and one laying face down. Took a gamble on it and it turns out all the joints are at the ideal stiffness and it can hold all sorts of poses on its own.

Seller could have done to show this off in their ad, but I somewhat glad they didn’t, ‘cause if they did, someone else might have snapped it up.

Wanted to mention it’s an ideal candidate for a 3D modelling / 3D printing / custom project and well, wanted to show that off too. Feels kinda nice that they’re getting accessories again. 😁

(Even if said accessories are all unpainted work-in-progress models, printed purely to help with the modelling process and not intended to be their permanent pieces)

I managed to do this within three minutes of getting it out of the parcel. ☹️ Red Halo 3 grunts don’t appear to be anywhere near as common as the black spec ops ones on eBay. Hopefully I can switch this one’s lower body out with one of theirs.

The repair helps the leg hold on, but articulating it makes it more and more loose and it quickly needs the hot water treatment to set it back again.

At least I now have a sample of the gas mask I can use to design a 3D printable - nearly all the grunts in eBay seem to be missing theirs.