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Photo Diary: Some 3d Prints I've Done Recently [1]
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Date: 2025-01-18
As some of you may remember, I recently got a 3d printer and have been playing around with it. Some of the prints I have done have been of practical use (like funnels, measuring spoons, jar openers, a bicycle tire tool, a couple of front yard wind spinners, some food/water dishes for my pet tropical cockroach colony ...) But most are just toys that I liked (model aircraft, replica movie props, lots of board games and pieces) or scientific things that interested me (some archaeological artifacts, some copies of interesting fossils).
When I first got the machine, a friend of mine asked me what I would do with it that would “justify the cost”. I told him it’s just a hobby that I like, I am having fun with it, and I don’t NEED to justify the cost. Anyway, it has not been expensive: the machine cost less than half what my last camera did, and each print only uses a few bucks worth of plastic filament.
So here are some photos of some of my recent projects.
Some hanging plant pots for my Tillandsia Air Plants
Mayan “Death Whistle”. It makes a piercing screaming sound.
Statue of Isis, the winged Egyptian goddess
The Willendorf Woman, from Ice Age Europe. (It used to be called the Willendorf Venus, but it has nothing to do with Rome or Venus.)
Velociraptor skull, Bald Eagle skull, and Microraptor skull. Life-size.
Food/water dishes for my colony of Central American Discoid Cockroaches
WW2 fighter weapons. The small one is a .303 machine gun cartridge, used in most WW1 fighters and in the WW2 British Spitfire and Japanese Zero (the German Me-109 used a slightly bigger 7.92mm). The next one is a .50-caliber machine gun, used in most American WW2 fighters. The bigger one is a 20mm cannon, used in the Zero and the Messerschmitt. And the biggest is a 30mm cannon, used in the Me-262 and in the Soviet Cold War MiG-15. Ballpoint pen for scale.
A collection of board games, ancient and modern. (And a statue of Xochipilli, the Aztec god of games.)
A southeast-Asia style Buddha
The “Chachapoyan Fertility Idol” from “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
WW1 Fokker DR1 Triplane in livery of 48-victory ace Josef Jacobs
Starfighter from the old “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” TV show. Back in the 80s I thought it was the coolest-looking thing ever (okay, maybe not as cool as a TIE fighter).
A Central African tribal mask
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