
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.


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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...
...or you had a better idea first ;P
:)
just thought id let you know yr item is featured on an etsy blog post!
carly
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