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I have no problem if David wants to do individual ships or sets of three of the same ship. He can start with whatever you guys request -- assuming he wants to do it at all.

By Greg Ernest (Gernest) on Tuesday, July 14, 2026 - 09:55 pm: Edit

Thanks, Steve! That's a nice option to round things out.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Wednesday, July 15, 2026 - 12:13 pm: Edit

So much more flexible than when we had to go through Shapeways.

By Sean Schoonmaker (Schoon) on Wednesday, July 15, 2026 - 12:37 pm: Edit

Ouch.

A Hydran release is yet another one I'll "need."

By Xander Fulton (Dderidex) on Wednesday, July 15, 2026 - 02:05 pm: Edit

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By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, July 15, 2026 - 03:35 pm: Edit

Understand that the STL "sculpting" is just part of the process. You have to "tweek" the STL to get it to print without flaws, and you have to "build" a file including pillars and angles and aspects to get it to print a sellable item. David does the second and third ones and (unlike Shapeways) is willing to modify sets and create new sets whenever we ask. BUT DO REMEMBER that there are only so many hours in a week and while he can do anything he cannot do everything. I consider getting all of the previous 7000s out as a priority over building new sets or creating singles or modifying sets, but sometimes those projects are so simple he can work them into cracks and rainy Thursdays. Be happy if it happens as fast as we want; be forgiving if it takes a while.

By David Jannke (Bigslowtarget) on Thursday, July 16, 2026 - 02:16 am: Edit

Tweeking the prints is exactly it.

For example: Cycle 3 is launching with Hydrans!

Test prints discovered that fine details on the back of the Monarch demands it be printed in an entirely different orientation than all the other BBs. Fortunately it has very little support caused detail loss if printed in the right orientation and so we've got a solution.

Hellbore ships have been test printed in a couple of orientations now and one seems to be promising but each orientation shift requires resetting all supports, manually adjusting supports (just automatic doesn't cut it), printing, cleaning, curing, and then examining under magnification. Any error in printing means you adjust and reprint again. That's all done to get the best detail and most of the time you'll only see the difference under 10x or so magnification - at least with my eyes - but it lets detail painters do what they do. Small Hydrans are printing great but the size class 3s are tricky and long. Each ship is oriented and supported in an individually different way.

Since we can do individual ships I'll probably look at doing a fleet configurator. It makes sense to sell in 3s or 6s and letting people pick by checkbox (likely within a particular empire) would be awesome! I just need to work out the store elements there. Getting 7000s out takes priority of course and I'd like to work out economical international shipping for the main fleets.

By Alex Chobot (Alendrel) on Thursday, July 16, 2026 - 08:43 pm: Edit

A fleet configurator would be really awesome - I totally get saying we have to batch ships together in whatever amounts just for ease and efficiency on your end and that’s a more than reasonable trade off for the ability to pick the ships we want.

I agree that getting more empires up and available is the number one priority but such a tool would be very appealing.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, July 16, 2026 - 11:37 pm: Edit

Jean did guess today that thirty 7000 files have yet to be sent to David.