I built this model for my son. Purchased the .stl files on etsy from an artist. Then manufactured it using a Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra 16k Resin Printer (took about t1.5 bottles of resin as it’s solid and I’m a novice and am learning still how to hollow out things).
I wanted this model as much as I was NOT a transformers kid (YO! JOE! was more my speed). To have a battle scared base. Still thinking of darkening some of the rubble and putting burn marks on some grass but I should probably stop.
So here it is! Bask in the glory of my 12 year old self coming back!
Yes I know I know you thought the site was dead…well so did I until I picked up a hobby that can occupy this crazy mind of mine with creative and possibility!
Anyway I have quite an extensive collection of statues printed by a couple artists that I only use on Etsy. I’ll put links to their shops in another article where I showcase some of their work. I’ve needed something creative to do for years since the great Art Director fall out…
Soooo, the other day I picked up a 3d Printer (Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra 16k) Not from Amazon but that’s a link to see what it is.
I have several prints done and have started painting. I wanted to show you how my pieces come together. Basically I pick up some 3d printer files that I like on etsy for about $2-$4 each and then comes the part of lining everything up and scaling it all so the pieces fit. I use software called Chitubox as the application that came with the printer just doesn’t have options my artist friends highly advised to use.
So here are some video’s and the final piece after of a project I’m making for my son. It’s Shockwave from Transformers. These pieces have all been stripped of the supports, washed in hot water, washed in 99% isopropyl alcohol and then cured so the resin hardens and sets.
Video of Lower Half
Here’s what the end result looks like unprimed / painted.
Next up is the upper body
Finished
Full body not primed or glued heading to the airbrush now.
And last but not least. The base for the model.
And here it is after curing and washing.
Onto priming all this then painting. See ya next time!
Having had the privilege to serve as a trained Combat Medic in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, I’m a proud member of a 250-year-old tradition. Founded in 1775, the “surgeons” (what the medical corps was called) have been taking care of soldiers on the battlefield and off.
I attended the same school on the same base as many decades of medics before me have. I enjoyed my training and took it very, very seriously. I left a dream job to join about 4-5 years after the events of 9/11. Seeing coffins draped in the American Flag kick-started my personal transformation from civilian to soldier to a medic.
I collect WWII items from the medical field. I find that conflict to be the most fascinating to me as warfare was changing, and we were still sending our medics to war with no weapons per the Geneva Convention. These men fought the war with sulfa powder and bandages.
One fact I’d like to put out there is that during WWII, the Combat Medic still didn’t train in combat ops. However when the Ranger Battalion and Airborne Battalions were formed, the Medic evolved and had to train right alongside the men who would “Lead the way (5th Ranger Battalion that soon became the motto of the U.S. Army Rangers on D-Day)
So I thought I would share my collection with the world. Some are reproductions. Mostly the Rations and Bandage boxes, but there are some authentic items in there. The collection is probably 80/20% real vs. reproduction.
Please enjoy my collection and take a moment to be thankful for these men and women from our founding until right this very moment put the lives of their charges first above all.
I know it’s been almost a month since a new post. I have to say my medical conditions are to blame for that. It seems like lately every single day I’m at a medical facility of some kind. Meaning my mood to create and write and photograph things is at a low again.
I have a few articles I just need to do photography for and my goal is to get them done at some point this week.
Coming up: California Games – The VHS board game of the late 80s, Nintendo Game and Watch – along with my collection, and a few NEW books that I have not shown here.
Due to my condition, I’ve also traded in my 12-foot camper for a 20-footer, which will be much easier to climb in and out of. Getting two 80+ lb dogs into it should also be much less of a challenge. And it has a shitter that will NEVER be used, so there’s that. So I can’t be like cousin Eddie dumping my sewage into the storm drain in the middle of winter “Shitter was full!”
So there you have a lineup of what’s the come not all this week my first goal is to cover California Games, a VHS board game! I have a couple of other board games also arriving this week I’ve wanted since one launched and the other when I was in late High School. Found them at great prices even with shipping (Come on do something about those shipping prices gov!)
Anyway, here’s the update and a road map! I just gotta get back into the swing of things after all this other real-life B.S. hit me.
-Pixelcade Until then here’s a bit of a promo for Laser Disc!
I just don’t feel they (the articles) are up to the same quality that I (at least in my mind) have been putting out. One is about the game series Blaster Master and the other is Sid Meiers Pirates! I kept going off script in my articles as I had just purchased the highest level of the game Civilization 7 and the crap I experienced would get my blood pressure rising.
I was given 2 days early access and up to 2 hours to return it (Civ VII) on Steam. I lasted about 50 minutes before I finally turned it off and hit the return option. But that’s another article / (warning) RANT I have written. It’s a rant as I have been playing Civilization since V2.0 on Windows 3.1 and a CD-ROM! I don’t know what order I want to release these articles so until then they are sitting in a few text docs on the old Macbook Pro Max M4. I gotta say that as I HATE WINDOWS and am a Mac-only person (yup one of those) but I have to use CodeWeavers Crossover (take a read of my review on this) to get my vast library of games to work…
So in conclusion I just don’t know at this moment what to finish and put out. Hopefully, it’s nice and sunny tomrrow we are under a storm winter storm advisory and are getting hit. If can get some natural light to take photographs of my Game and Watch Gallery Collection I will. Again the article is started but I was not happy with the lighting that I have (2 big windows). My room lamp in the game room isn’t an LED and puts off that orange light… IF need be I’ll use my standing desk lamp that has 5 different lighting modes. However, I didn’t get them open today (they are each wrapped in plastic NES Manual bags).
I also don’t want to use Wikipedia unless I have to. I always like to write based on my experiences but sometimes ya just need dates or that one piece of info you can’t think of at the time. I ALWAYS have and ALWAYS will call out when I gather content from Wikipedia or another source.
So please excuse the lack of posts today my mind is in a jumble sitting here with so much content! But until tomorrow here’s a picture of some A-Team Toys (enemies) from back in the day!
