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I've been very busy cranking out as many #jazwares #starwars #microgalaxysquadron flight stands as I can. My 2 3d printers have been running non-stop for weeks to keep up with the demand, and I've gone from ordering a couple reps of filament per month, to needing 3 or 4 per week! As a maker, it's a great problem to have! My latest design is for the series 4 #Ywing fighter. It's a little larger than most other fighter class ships, but it's well balanced and has a center of mass that makes it easy to support. I wanted to see if I could make a stand that gives people a choice of display, either level, or at a more dynamic upward angle that I'm becoming increasingly fond of. The resulting stand ended up looking like an abstract squirrel, but works great! Stable, small footprint in both orientations, and prints cleanly with no supports. Really happy with it, and now I'm thinking about redoing most of my other stands to give them the same dual position options! All my current stands and their downloadable STL files can be found in my #etsy shop here: www.gwydionsforest.etsy.com

#star wars #micro galaxy squadron #jazwares #microgalaxian #action fleet #micro galaxian #3d printing #y wing #display #etsymaker #etsyseller #etsyshop

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The #Jazwares #MicroGalaxySquadron #SithInquisitor transport, like the #BadBatch #HavocMarauder, was a large challenge to design a stand for. I needed to make sure it had plenty of clearance for the wings to fold down, but also wanted to see if I could leave room for the ramp to open, at least partially. I also made it look a little more organic and for added menace, threw a #Sith symbol from #RiseOfSkywalker on there too!

#Jazwares #micro galaxian #micro galaxy squadron #sith inquisitor #scythe #obi wan series #star wars

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This stand was a bit of a tricky one to design. While I wanted to keep the footprint small and print without supports, the versatility of the #GauntletStarfighter with its rotating wings meant it could be positioned at multiple angles, and I wanted to make sure it could be shown off in as many ways as possible! I made the stand to hold the ship by one wing, but in 3 different positions. Banked, right, left, and straight vertical. It works, it's stable, and it's fairly unobtrusive, but I may revisit this one if i get the time.

#star wars #mandalorian #gauntlet fighter #bo katan #jazwares #micro galaxy squadron #micro galaxian

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This is the ship that inspired me to start making stands for the #Jazwares #StarWars #MicroGalaxySquadron line. #AsajjVentress' fan blade ship from the #GenndyTartakovsky #CloneWars cartoon comes with a small clear stand, but it can only be displayed with the fan partially closed and doesn't have landing gear. I decided to give it a more dynamic posethat allows it to be shown fully open! (One day, I'd like to design a replacement closed fan insert that has landing gear, but that's a project for a later time)

#star wars #micro galaxy squadron #microgalaxian #asajj ventress #clone wars #genndy tartakovsky

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Really proud of this one, my #Jazwares #MicroGalaxySquadron #StarWars #LAAT stand. Designed to print without supports, hold one LAAT and 4 scout class #SpeederBikes, and have a small footprint while allowing clearance for another LAAT (or similarly sized vehicle) underneath. With the number of repaints and variations for this ship, I wanted to maximize display space!

#Star Wars #micro galaxy squadron #microgalaxian #clone wars #republic gunship #action fleet #clone trooper

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Adding to my #StarWars #MicroGalaxySquadron Stand collection, a smaller set of tabs that will hold 3 scout class #SpeederBikes in formation. I also add at least one clear PLA version of this with every order of stands! Great for army building and diorama display!

#star wars #microgalaxian #micro galaxy squadron #jazwares

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An update to my previous post about the #Jazwares line of #StarWars #microGalaxySquadron ships. I've been having a lot of fun designing some 3D printed stands for several different models now, and have expanded them to have their own section in my #EtsyShop! (Check them out at GwydionsForest.Etsy.com: https://www.etsy.com/shop/gwydionsforest/?section_id=42179283 ) The challenge was to make them relatively simple to print with no supports, but to have ample clearance for the wings/guns etc to be displayed in flight mode, while having a smaller footprint and still being stable. For the #BadBatch #HavocMarauder, I also added some tabs to hold a couple of the scout class speeder bikes, and room for Hunter's AT-RT underneath, so all of #CloneForce99 could be displayed together!

#star wars #bad batch #the bad batch #microgalaxian #micro galaxy squadron #action fleet #micro machines action fleet #clone wars

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Last weekend, I had the chance to go to #Creation’s #SPNNJ2023 con and meet most of the main actors from #Supernatural. It was a great time! (a little expensive, but fun! I definitely reccommend doing #KimRhodes and #BriannaBuckmaster’s #PajamaParty if you’re able)  My wife, Shannon, found a video of #MishaCollins showing off his #Trebuchet (you can see it here: https://youtu.be/-hcNV9T_0AY?t=1194) so for our photo op with him, I drew up a Mallrats-inspired blueprint of our adventures using Vera (my very favorite trebuchet) one Halloween. It was a simple drawing, but I had a lot of fun making it, and pleased I was able to work in a stick figure batman mask and #JensenAckles’ bow legs, lol

#Misha Collins #Supernatural #trebuchet #catapult #spnnj23 #pajama party #brianna buckmaster #kim rhodes #jensen ackles

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Jazwares Star Wars Micro Galaxy Squadron Flight Stands

Something new I'm trying out-

I was a big collector of the older Micro Machines Star Wars Action Fleet line of ships and figures- 6" ships with opening cockpits, folding wings and landing gear that were a lot easier to store and display than the larger Kenner toys. So when I saw that Jazwares was making a new toy line at almost the exact same scale, I gave myself permission to go a little nuts with it, lol.

These new toys have some amazing detail, from the landing gear that folds up almost seamlessly, to the molded flight controls and painted weathering... but they lack one thing: STANDS! So far, they can only be displayed at rest, or in the case of the Jedi Starfighter, in parts. So I'm setting out to fix that. Thus far, I've only got a couple preliminary designs, for the Fett Firespray (formerly "Slave I", but sold as repaints as Jango Fett's Starship and Boba Fett's Starship) and the Jedi Starfighter that comes with the removable hyperdrive ring. I've kept them very basic, just adding my shop logo underneath, and some Aurebesh labelling to make it at least a little easier to remember which ship goes with what stand, but I'm hoping to add more as my collection grows (and I can get my hands on more ships to take measurements)

#jazwares #slave 1 #star wars #3d printing #boba fett #jango fett #firespray #micro galaxy squadron #action fleet

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What I've been up to...

Spent most of the past year going through Merit America's Full-Stack Java developer program. It was an intensive, frustrating process at times, and the workload and learning curve were steep! But with the support of my family and friends and some EXCELLENT coaches and fellow students, I completed the course and was able to remind myself how much I enjoyed learning new skills and playing with new technologies. While I've been lucky enough to continue working full-time throughout the pandemic, I've also been throwing myself whole-heartedly at the job search, trying to keep up with my Etsy shop and develop some coding projects to build up a programming portfolio of sorts. To that end, I just uploaded a more polished version of my Big Bang Theory inspired "Paper/Rock/Scissors/Lizard/Spock" game to GitHub, link below.

My hope is that I'll be able to keep building on that to make more complex versions with added features (Score tracking database, browser interface, etc) But for now, it's a fairly enjoyable text game completely built from scratch that I'm proud of.

#java coding #java programming #github #the big bang theory #paper rock scissors #computer games #programming

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Been way too long since I added something to Thingiverse- been busy with a new Java Coding course, about 12 weeks into it now. Took a quick break to put this little guy together; the GISH mascot for 2022. Haven’t finished actually printing one yet, but I thought the design came out pretty well for about an hour’s worth of work in tinkercad and meshmixer!

#gish #misha collins #chillax #chinchilla #axolotl #gishwhes #mascot #hybrid animals #3D Printing

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Thanks, #WilWheaton, for bringing this to my attention: I'm an #EtsySeller, and while I'm very grateful for the opportunity to sell my #Crafts online, I've seen my shop's fees more than double since last year. Today, Etsy plans to implement another fee increase. I'll be placing my shop on VacationMode for the rest of this week in solidarity with the #EtsyStrike; please consider signing the petition here:

As we haven’t posted our petition here yet, thought I’d start by sharing it!

#etsy #etsy strike #etsyseller #small business

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And here’s my version of the Encanto miracle candle too!  I have a bunch of the little LED tealghts, but after making a small version of the candle to go over those, I wanted something a little closer to what is seen in the film. I was able to find a small strand of LED fairy lights that blink in sequence, and made an internal structure separate from the body of the candle, so now it looks like both the flame and butterfly art on the side sparkle independantly! (I may start using the twinkle lights for my larger superman fortress too!)

#encanto #candle #family madrigal #butterfly #miracle #magic #mirabel

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Man, I really suck at remembering to post here!  I finally worked out the larger shattered version of the Encanto Prohpecy I made before. I was trying to cut out puzzzle pieces in tinkercad, but that kept glitching and I had to keep track of too many steps. Instead, I was able to manually draw the breaks, and used another program (meshmixer) to isolate the individual shards. Came out really great! 

#encanto #we don't talk about bruno #mirabel #prophecy #family madrigal

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Almost forgot - there was one other thing I made recently- I’d just been working on it for so long, I forgot nobody else had seen it yet! I finally was able to make a decent version of the doubloon from The Goonies, and improve my painting skills. The ones I tried to design previously either came out too flat, so you couldn’t see the detail, or differed too much from the screenshot I wanted to duplicate. They also needed weathering - I had made a version of the Copper Bones Key a while ago, but just left it painted bronze/gold. I tried leaving the doubloon that way to match, but then they both just looked too fake/new. Painting isn’t my strongest skill, but with a few light spritzes of brown and green and a gentle rubbing in by hand, I got some pretty nice results! You can see the finished products here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/694252489/goonies-cosplay-key?click_key=d30357da17b3911217fb0eaf50169174886d3507%3A694252489&click_sum=a5373cf4&ref=shop_home_active_26&sts=1

#goonies #the goonies #pirate #copper bones #doubloon #1980s #one eyed willy

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Made my first totally new thing in a while! From Disney’s Encanto, Bruno’s prophecy tablet that Mirabel reassembles. Turned a screen grab into a lithophane, but that wasn’t the clever bit - the clever bit is building cracks into the back so that when light shines behind it, they show through the front, so one tablet shows both images from the movie. (At least, that’s the concept - think it’ll show up better if I scale it up a little bit more) I also want to make a lifesize version that’s the collection of shards, and I’m working on an LED version of Abuela’s magic candle. Hooray inspiration! 

You can check it out in my shop here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1164032702/mini-encanto-prophecy-tablet?click_key=c1d1238b7ca381d9b2184f22d93544a37b8b4d3e%3A1164032702&click_sum=afd80465&ref=shop_home_active_1&sts=1

#encanto #family madrigal #we dont talk about bruno #mirabel #lin manuel miranda #3D Printing