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Interesting! Printing your own "Terra Cotta" army?
Reminds me of visiting the DMV for driver's license renewal.
reminds me when I used to go to the yearly Racing Pigeon Federation AGM !
just practicing :)
only another 345 pawns to go...
:) we dont want to be too beautiful in the licence pics!
ah the good ole days when I used to see a pigeon and think " I wonder if that is one of Stezza's"
I thought a chess set at first, but everyone seemed to have a sword, and couldn't find the pawns...but that's my crappy vision. Did notice the king and bishop's headgear, though!
Is this a test, going life-sized?
Silene
Ah the chaps with swords are the pawns. Have printed one bishop bigger but life sized would take 6 months :) they look better in real life luckily! The most fun is modelling them ie kit bashing them , then sculpting them a little. Also attack with Dremel later. They get ticklish though...
Ah, OK. I thought pawns were peasants who had staffs not swords so they could fight but not fight well enough to turn on their 'betters'. Cannon fodder comes to mind... or trebuchet and boiling oil fodder? What a great idea for a 3D print project!
ha ha yes too true, cannon fodder, you sound as politically incorrect as I am. Keeps the population down. Mind you, I just spent two days in our war memorial here in Oz. Depressing and sad. All the heroic stories in the work couldn't balance out the sadness that war brings....
Anyways, I like the Lewis chessman. The beauty of chess pieces that arent those rounded Staunton chess pattern is that you can take them away from the board and they become something else. Mind you, there is a lot of beauty in simplicity
Lewis chessmen - Wikipedia
Wow, thanks for the link to the Lewis chess pieces. A shame that they can't round a semi-complete set up over here in the UK. Put the Scotland pieces together with the British Museum pieces and send on tour together so all can see a mostly complete set! Several years ago the BM rounded up Ice Age Art from Europe and beyond. It was a brilliant collaboration. Would never likely happen again now.
Done the berserkers yet?
Silene
Scholars have observed that to the modern eye the figural pieces, with their bulging eyes and glum expressions, have a distinctly comic character. This is especially true of one rook ("warder 4" in Madden's numbering) with a worried, sideways glance and the berserker rooks biting their shields, which have been called "irresistibly comic to a modern audience". It is believed, however, that the comic or sad expressions were not intended or perceived as such by the makers, who instead saw strength, ferocity, or in the case of the queens who hold their heads with a hand and seemingly pensive expression, "contemplation, repose, and possibly wisdom".
I love that you have these 3D printing projects, @Headwax. The beauty of objects.
@SileneUK - waving to say hi. Great to see you posting. I no longer live or work in your old DC stomping grounds. I am officially getting retirement income these days, and have moved to the middle of the US where everything is much cheaper - Little Rock, Arkansas.
Pleasure @SileneUk, yes it's amazing that set. You coan almsot imagine you have entered the mindset of the maker.
Ha ha the besrerkers are on the list! As soon as I solve my dislexia by the look of it !
Hya Ted, thankyou. I must have a lot of beauty in my house because it is full of crap ,... er I mean objects,,, :)
Presently doing a starman sun thing to hang on the wall, save's floor spacde. And will print it in a plstic that melts in the sun - here comes dali as a garden ornament!
designing sunface thing tio print - on left is what I took out of carrara - the other two are that mesh pushed around with blender and meshmizers sculpting tools