Well, I was waylaid back on December 21, when I had a cascading failure of the solid-state “fusion drive” and the logic board on my home iMac. This has prevented me from doing any substantive work on any of my workbee/Enterprise 3D modeling (and printing) this past 10 days.
I have spent the past few evenings, when not battling driving during a snow-storm that shut down the Portland metro area, working on 3D modeling some of the parts of the workbee spine.
On a trip to Seattle on October 1, 2016, I visited the Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds, 50th Anniversary exhibition at the Sci-fi Museum which is part of the Experience Music Project Museum (EMP). While there I took a series of photos of the D’deridex Class Romulan Warbird.
I got a little side-tracked over the weekend in that I began working on some preliminary cargo pod illustrations. These will eventually be part of the cargo-train attachment on a few of the workbees.
This past weekend, when coming back from Sisters Oregon, location of turkey consumption at the home of my better-half’s dad and his wife, I was excited to see the initial test 3D printed pieces of the workbee upper shell in the mailbox.
A big step forward last night and today. After working on some test 3D models to do some 3D printing for the workbee parts, I uploaded the initial upper hull piece to Shapeways, and it is now in production.
After purchasing the Moment of Inspiration (MoI) 3D Modeling software the other night, I have managed to make decent headway into finally getting a hyper-accurate outer shell for the workbee drawn up.
It’s been several weeks since my last post and a lot of experimenting and a possible change in direction is in the offing.
The Pro Silent Air Compressor I purchased from Golden Depot arrived today, as did the new quad airbrush stand I ordered.
I began to finally make the leap from a single-action to dual-action airbrushing and I recently purchased two new dual-action airbrushes.
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