Modelshop Greebles

I'm sure there was a chap on "replica prop forum (RPF)" who scanned in loads of kits and sold the files so you could print them off on your 3d printer.

They'd i'd bits attached to StartWars and other models, found the original kits and then scanned them, obviously there was a cost.

But actually a great idea to keep these things around for ever
 
Half the time, the 3D print supports are of more interest visually than the subject itself...in that it is giving whatever is printed its own exhaust system.

Scanning greebles is a good thing, because you can enlarge or reduce things, maybe even stretch them.

I don't know that anymore has ever assembled a model virtually, however.

I never had the means to purchase much, so what I did was pick up plastic scraps from anything that wasn't a model. Vacuum cleaners, printer cartridges, what have you.

A good project for those who are good at computing would be an app to scan a found-object, and create a mirror image of it.

But nothing replaces just having physical objects to gaze at, and combine.

I remember one of Adam Savage's TESTED programs where he just made an ad hoc ship model and I was fussing at the screen about greebles choice :)

He glued a block on an inclined part, where I would have cut it at an angle such that the block was flat on top...the artist behind CUT/TRANSFORM/GLUE has wonderful greebles, and seems to combine them in a polar opposite way I would.

I have an affliction I call greebles freeze. I either wonder if a larger object "deserves" or is worthy of a good greeble--even to the point that I imagine a whole hull to go around that ONE part. Bad greebles go together for an enemy ship that explodes.

I know...I'm insane.

My dream is that if I ever come into money, I am going to buy loads of old things to tear apart.

As it stands, I'm just an idea guy...a poor one at that.

Sometimes things look better in your head anyway.

The lower sensor on the bottom of the 1/537 Refit Enterprise is bad...but if you cored out the center, the (perhaps) overly conical lower saucer of the original 1/650 AMT Enterprise could protrude through that, and you would have something new.
 
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