Hispaniolan Corsair

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Friday, October 20, 2017 - 03:24 pm: Edit

Neat, but how do you balance the ship, it looks like the stand will have to be at the very end.

By Matthew G Lawson (Mglawson) on Friday, October 20, 2017 - 03:29 pm: Edit

Neat! I agree with Nick, might need to adjust the bottom sail somehow.

By Steve Zamboni (Szamboni) on Friday, October 20, 2017 - 03:45 pm: Edit

Either on the edge of the sail, or split the mast so the stand can get past it to the bottom of the ship. This was mostly a test to see what I could get past the Shapeways checker, so I hadn't quite gotten to practicalities yet.

(I'm not really happy with the poopdeck, I will probably redo the top deck to make it into something a bit less Peter Pan-ish.)

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Friday, October 20, 2017 - 03:57 pm: Edit

I am pretty sure that if you look at the bottom, you will see that the standhole is present in the center of the ship. It appears that the intent is that the "sail/engine" curves enough to allow the stand to run up along side of it into the hole in the bottom of the hull.

By Matthew G Lawson (Mglawson) on Friday, October 20, 2017 - 04:44 pm: Edit

I see the stand hole better on the computer I'm at now. Makes sense.

By Charles Chapel (Ctchapel) on Friday, October 20, 2017 - 06:31 pm: Edit

Good eye SPP.

Z, this does have a wet look to it. Maybe dispensing with the rail would help.

By Steve Zamboni (Szamboni) on Friday, October 20, 2017 - 07:28 pm: Edit

Yeah, the rails need to go. That was a Shapeways dimension test.

By Chris Nasipak (Ecs05norway) on Friday, October 20, 2017 - 11:21 pm: Edit

Honestly I think the rails make the ship. Remember this is supposed to be a Simulator race, so unrealistic is a little OK.

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Friday, October 20, 2017 - 11:29 pm: Edit

Obviously Hispaniolans actually have to man the surface of the ship, immune to vacuum and radiation of space.

By Terry O'Carroll (Terryoc) on Saturday, October 21, 2017 - 03:50 am: Edit

They wear spacesuits, obviously!

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Saturday, October 21, 2017 - 04:59 am: Edit

A pirate may have acquired a Hispanolian Corsair.

By Steve Cain (Stevecain) on Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 02:11 am: Edit

In light of the pricing model change, I would suggest the file for this turn on its side to reduce the print height

By Steve Zamboni (Szamboni) on Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 11:58 am: Edit

That would make it a Paravian.

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 12:31 pm: Edit

Somehow I'd missed seeing this, cool looking ship.

By Steve Cain (Stevecain) on Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 02:34 pm: Edit

Steve Z. Ha ha. I mean to deliver the best pricing....so on the printer, flat is fast and costs less.

By Steve Zamboni (Szamboni) on Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 03:06 pm: Edit

Shapeways often automatically rotates the print jobs depending on the printer model and the other ships in the job brick.

Most of their printers make more than one model at a time, and your orientation is often determined by how well you fit with the parts being printed around you. This is why you see two identical FUD prints with different sides being frosted by the supports - one of those ships was printed sideways. Picking a direction and getting them to use it can be a struggle.

(This is why their talk of "taller" models gives me a headache. Tall and skinny should allow them to fit *more* print jobs on a plate with the printers they're using.)

(This all almost feels to me like they've changed printer models and their print manager can't overlap the empty space in the bounding boxes. Instead of paying for just your small section of the pile, now we're paying for the entire footprint in all directions.)

By Steve Zamboni (Szamboni) on Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 03:19 pm: Edit

Yes, I'm || this close to start stacking Form 3's in the garage...grumble, grumble...

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 03:38 pm: Edit

I was about to pull the trigger on a Form 2 or Form 3 about a year ago, until life-events intervened. Still might happen, but not for a while and by the time I do it will probably be something different.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 09:35 am: Edit

Are we ready to move forward on this?

By Steve Zamboni (Szamboni) on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 03:17 pm: Edit

It's close, redoing the sails to see if the price can be made a bit more reasonable. (My collection of swoopy spacesail ships took a direct hit from the new pricing formulas.)

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 04:26 pm: Edit

Let us know when you have new renders.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, October 08, 2019 - 04:02 pm: Edit

Progress would be swell but this is not a high priority.