Edit: Aotrs Commander here: sliught bog-up – UshCha left himself logged in again and of course the *one time* I don't double check because I'm trying to do five things at once…
*sigh*
Aotrs Shipyards is a webstore on Shapeways.com, a 3D print house which had production and shipping facilities located in the USA and the the Netherlands.
This month, a slight change of plan, since Shapeways is late with my Chieftain; as it's been asked after on other sites, we present something a bit different: the MAZ-7310 Uragan 8x8 Artillery truck in 144th (10 or 12mm)!
MAZ-7310 Uragan
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This is the replicator 2 prototype, as usual. This actually proved rather difficult to print on the Rep 2, since the usual method of using supports failed abyssmally because of the wheels. I had to resort to cutting in it half and doing it as a top/bottom (which meant I could put a handful of my own supports, but print it mostly without). But even that had some problems, as the rear mudguards were then detached, because of the level of the cut need (just about the top of the wheels, so I didn't need support between the wheels and the surface above them). I didn't really have much option, then, but to print it, hopw they came out and then very carefully glue them back on with tweezers!
I came out alright, though in the end, I think. (And this, is, of course, a problem Shapeways models don't have!)
For anyone around, I will be putting on a game as part of the KB Club at Partizan in Newark on the 22nd of May, alongside UshCha and Manouvre Group. (They'll be doing 144 cold war, we'll be doing 144 scifi!)
June's release will almost certainly be the Mark 3 and Mark 5 Chieftain, as I actually have a proper WSF shapeways Mark 5 on the way!
Speaking of, to finish off today's post, here is a (belated!) photo of the M1A1 in WSF:
asks a painting service to handle a complicated commission: assembling four plastic kits, getting the magnets right, painting and applying decals.
