It's been a while since I spent any real amount of time scratch building models, close to 20 years. Then I got a 3D printer last year to make parts of my studio scale DeAgostini Millennium Falcon which I totally failed do.
Note quite true, I did print these, a floor for the Falcon ramp and engine grill.
More on the 1:43 scale Falcon in a future post as it's HUGE and two years later, still needs lots of love.
What I have done is set about making classic space-ships and vehicles from TV and movies I saw in my youth. The big design influences being 2001 - A Space Odyssey and Gerry Anderson productions like Space 1999.
Rather than hide my build updates on Facebook (which I restrict to close family and a few close friends it was time to start a blog.
This summer I printed The Liberator, aka DSV1, from the BBC TV series Blakes 7 and recorded my build progress on Facebook.
There was lots of sanding. Sanding. Oh God the sanding. But eventually it came together as quite the display piece with 6mm and 8mm aluminium tube used as to make a simple stand I could feed wires through.
I struggled to figure out what base design to go with, but I did know I wanted a moon surface with a "rising" pose,
With the addition of a custom cut wooden base with a channel for wires, I call this completed. This is my version of DSV1, from the 1980 BBC Television series Blake's 7. Now proudly displayed in the front window.
Here's the Thingiverse links to my make and the original 3D model by PeterG71:
https://www.thingiverse.com/make:507128
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1622169
One thing for sure, it's definitely NOT the future.
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