Greetings Shapeways community!

I received this about a month ago, but haven't posted anything about it yet as I needed some time to put it together, sand, paint and wire up the LED circuit. If anyone managed to make it to the London Shapeways meetup in Southbank, you may have seen a few pictures of this already as I brought some pics there on my tablet.

The model is probably the most complicated I've attempted to date, but I am extremely happy with the results. This time I'm keeping it! This is not a present for any friends, this time it's all mine!!!

It's printed completely in WSF in order to keep the cost down and I sanded a lot down by hand. I know Shapeways offers Polished WSF which I've used before and it's great, but I was convinced some of the parts wouldn't survive the polishing process.

I'll try not to go into loads of detail here, if you want to read how I did this in a little more detail, please check my blog here (http://psychobobarts.blogspot.co.uk - The name needs work, I know!). I'll post a video on the blog also in a few days once I had a chance to do some colour correction on what I've shot so far.

Edit: The video is now on my blog

I used acrylic paint in an airbrush to paint this (first time I used one ). It was definfitely a learning experience, but I don't think I could have achieved some of the subtle weathering look without one (you may not be able to see it in these pics. Once the video has been uploaded to youtube and I've linked to it in my blog, you should see some close ups where you can see this easier).

This is actually part 1 of this model, part 2 is where I make the base (that will probably be 3D printed also!).


(Baby Atlas! )

Here's a shot of the back of it


In keeping with all my other projects, Atlas of course comes with LEDs!


And of course, if it has lights, you need to see it in the dark!



Thanks for reading!

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[Updated on: Tue, 01 May 2012 21:59 UTC]