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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,013
    edited October 16

    Bad pic

     

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  • SileneUKSileneUK Posts: 1,975
    edited October 23

    Interesting!  Printing your own "Terra Cotta" army?  

    laugh Silene

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  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,246

    Headwax said:

    Bad pic

    Reminds me of visiting the DMV for driver's license renewal.  surprise

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,133

    Steve K said:

    Headwax said:

    Bad pic

    Reminds me of visiting the DMV for driver's license renewal.  surprise

    reminds me when I used to go to the yearly Racing Pigeon Federation AGM !  devil 

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,013

    SileneUK said:

    Interesting!  Printing your own "Terra Cotta" army?  

    laugh Silene

    just practicing :)

    only another 345 pawns to go...

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,013

    Steve K said:

    Headwax said:

    Bad pic

    Reminds me of visiting the DMV for driver's license renewal.  surprise

     

    :)  we dont want to be too beautiful in the licence pics!

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,013

    Stezza said:

    Steve K said:

    Headwax said:

    Bad pic

    Reminds me of visiting the DMV for driver's license renewal.  surprise

    reminds me when I used to go to the yearly Racing Pigeon Federation AGM !  devil 

    ah the good ole days when I used to see a pigeon and think " I wonder if that is one of Stezza's"

  • SileneUKSileneUK Posts: 1,975

    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?  laugh Silene

     

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,013

    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... 

  • SileneUKSileneUK Posts: 1,975

    Headwax said:

    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! 

    devil Silene

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,013

    SileneUK said:

    Headwax said:

    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! 

    devil Silene

     

    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

  • SileneUKSileneUK Posts: 1,975
    edited October 27

    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. crying

    Done the berserkers yet? laugh  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".

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,188

    I love that you have these 3D printing projects, @Headwax. The beauty of objects.  yes

    @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.

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,013

    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!

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,013
    edited November 1

    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 

     

     

     

     

     

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,188

    Headwax said:

    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 

     

     

     

     

     

    Very cool!

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,188

    US Thanksgiving approaches.  Cheers to the wonderful Carrara community who have given so much.  Yay.

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,013

    Thanks Ted. And back at you!!! 

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,712

    Headwax said:

    Thanks Ted. And back at you!!! 

    +1 yes

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,133
    edited December 1

    A Curious Christmas Competition (Freebie Challenge December 2024)

    for all you Carrarians out there, this may be fun and/or of interest you..&nbsp;<img alt="yes" src="https://www.daz3d.com/forums/plugins/ckeditor/js/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/thumbs_up.png"; style="height:23px; width:23px" title="yes" />

    hosted by @KindredArts <a href="https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/711996/a-curious-christmas-competition-freebie-challenge-december-2024#latest"; target="_blank">in the Freebies board</a>..&nbsp;

    dunno what happened with this post.... wacky christmas time I suppose&nbsp;<img alt="surprise" src="https://www.daz3d.com/forums/plugins/ckeditor/js/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/omg_smile.png"; style="height:23px; width:23px" title="surprise" />

     

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,311

    Stezza said: A Curious Christmas Competition (Freebie Challenge December 2024) for all you Carrarians out there, this may be fun and/or of interest you.. yes hosted by @KindredArts in the Freebies board.. dunno what happened with this post.... wacky christmas time I suppose surprise

    mmm pasting into source just lost all the links

    I watchec the video and thought it was AI

     

     

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,712
    edited December 1

    Space Station anyone ?

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,188

    Cool space station, @Bunyip02

    Wow, @WendyLuvsCatz, thanks for reposting the Freebies announcement.  They did a fantastic job on the video.

     

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,712

    Diomede said:

    Cool space station, @Bunyip02

    Wow, @WendyLuvsCatz, thanks for reposting the Freebies announcement.  They did a fantastic job on the video.

    Thanks !!!

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,311

    Diomede said:

    Cool space station, @Bunyip02

    Wow, @WendyLuvsCatz, thanks for reposting the Freebies announcement.  They did a fantastic job on the video.

     

    I actually replied to Stezza in a thread that came unravelled cheeky

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,712

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    Diomede said:

    Cool space station, @Bunyip02

    Wow, @WendyLuvsCatz, thanks for reposting the Freebies announcement.  They did a fantastic job on the video.

     

    I actually replied to Stezza in a thread that came unravelled cheeky

    Spinning a yarn ?

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,133

    If you think 2024 was bad
    2025 starts off with
    W T F
    angel

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,311
    edited December 9

    my power keeps going out

    get Text Messages on my phone from SA Power Networks everytime saying they are aware

    basically don't bother us, we know

    no point in trying to use the PC

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  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,133

    what a PITA that is!

    the lights went out twice during the day night cricket the other day in Adelaide... you guys seem to cop it in the power stakes all the time.. frown

    doesn't your power mainly come from Victoria?

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,311
    edited December 9

    Stezza said:

    what a PITA that is!

    the lights went out twice during the day night cricket the other day in Adelaide... you guys seem to cop it in the power stakes all the time.. frown

    doesn't your power mainly come from Victoria?

    yep

    we do have windfarms and a power station on Torrens island but rely on the interconnecter too

    this was just my street though as it was named in the text message so probably local line work, I saw a dead pigeon on the ground under the transformer where the street line joins the high voltage one on the main road when I went on my walk so maybe it caused it

    it didn't look cooked though unlike the corella that took out the whole suburb a few years ago with a big bang chewing on the other transformer the other end of the street

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