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Aug. 31st, 2008

  • 1:44 AM
iloveyou
Ringtown

I tried to make a tiny city on a ring. It came out OK but I'm still figuring out what scale works with what materials. Also, balsa is useless; never use it for anything.

I have been using a program called QCAD to draw out the designs, and its been kinda frustrating. The documentation for it is terrible. Bre found a guy who does tutorials which has helped a little, but its overall a slow process. In some ways its similar to Rhino, which I learned in college, but the UI is totally different and its annoying. I'm debating whether to reinstall XP on my laptop (it has Ubuntu right now) just so I can use Illustrator instead. Because apparently I have forgotten how much I hate Illustrator.

People have asked me to sell Tinysaurs on Etsy. I'm debating it... I sort of hate selling things on Etsy though. Not because of Etsy, but because its just a pain to ship stuff now that I don't work in a shipping warehouse.

I need to start using / posting this stuff on my public blog but I am too lazy.

Comments

[info]slayer_of_peons wrote:
Aug. 31st, 2008 08:17 am (UTC)
That is fucking amazing and I would buy like a million of those citiscapes.
[info]revolvingdork wrote:
Aug. 31st, 2008 12:22 pm (UTC)
I love the little tree. :D

It would lend itself to a different aesthetic than what you may be going for, but I wonder if the strength would be increased by removing the cross-braces entirely and simply gluing all the parellel ring layers together directly. Then you could get more resolution with the design itself, and maybe even use more layers of a thinner wood.

But then again, the skeletal ship-hull-esque cross braces look pretty rad...
[info]kellbot wrote:
Aug. 31st, 2008 12:52 pm (UTC)
this one actually is just glued together sans braces... the holes are supposed to be windows. I think I might raster etch them instead of cutting them out...makes stuff fall apart less maybe.
[info]revolvingdork wrote:
Aug. 31st, 2008 01:03 pm (UTC)
It's like I READ YOUR MIND

...or you had a better idea first ;P
[info]metalsmitten wrote:
Dec. 13th, 2008 07:25 am (UTC)
i hold out hope that one day you will add my new lj to your friends list.

:)
[info]kellbot wrote:
Dec. 13th, 2008 11:43 am (UTC)
oh, I think I had it on there I just took it off cuz I didn't think you used it ever. Sorry!
[info]nojazzatthealtr wrote:
Feb. 13th, 2009 01:09 am (UTC)
http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/top-10-birthday-wishes-for-darwin-3396/

just thought id let you know yr item is featured on an etsy blog post!

carly
[info]monkeyspeedboat wrote:
Mar. 3rd, 2009 03:39 pm (UTC)
I think your city ring looks cool. When I've mentioned to some people about your laser cutting and tinysaurs, they thought it was the coolest thing ever.

PS: Add me back? :)
[info]kellbot wrote:
Mar. 3rd, 2009 03:47 pm (UTC)
Oh oops, I forgot you had a new lj name.
Added :)
[info]monkeyspeedboat wrote:
Mar. 3rd, 2009 04:02 pm (UTC)
Hooray! :)