3D Printed Bismark

3D Printed Bismark

I have always liked the look of the World War 2 battleship "Bismark".  Through wanting to have a floating model Bismark I came across a 1:50th scale model in a museum, this sparked my interest in ships in this scale and got me thinking how I could achieve to build a ship of that size, not to mention it would fit rather perfectly with my 1:48 scale tanks.

Through a bit of research I have learnt of the original ship plans being in the Freiburg Military Archives in Germay.  I plan to eventually acquire these and build a 3D model of this inside Blender.

Once I have a to scale 3D model I can proceed to chop it into pieces big enough to be printed on a 3D printer.  Once completed I will build a rep-rap 3D printer to print each piece seperately with a strong plastic, numbering each piece for easy reassembly.

The eventual assembly of the ship will involve a lot of plastic glue, sandpaper and maybe some paint, with the eventual goal of a floating 1:50(48) scale bismark.

Current road blocks are mainly around cost, I believe the cost of materials alone will be a magnitude of 10'000's.

Sheep Computer Case

Sheep Computer Case

A while ago I thought it would be cool if you could have a computer you could sit on, through various trains of thought I got to the idea to taxidermy a sheep and put computer parts into it.

The plan is to get a sheep taxidermied  into a standing posture, and put a fan in both ends for air flow.  From there make a flap where the belly is and mount a computer frame within it.  Have all the wires plugged into the belly and the CD drive out the side in the middle hidden under a decent amount of wool.

To allow the sheep to be sat on, strengthen the fibreglass frame with some steel framing similar to how the original skeleton would have looked.

What stopped me from doing this idea is cost, it will cost approximately $1000 to taxidermy a sheep and then $100 to actually get the sheep.