It is what it is then. Thanks.

By Aaron Staley (Awwwdrat) on Wednesday, February 05, 2020 - 03:18 pm: Edit

Ok
Ive rethought this. I would rather have a million entries to filter these (since the "community" want to have a million different scales). What would I like? Here you go. A Filter for Fed 3788, Fed Omni, klink 3788, klink omni, Rom 3788, and Rom omni. If i didnt have to cotend with everything else, ordering would be incredibly easier.

By John Williams (Johndw) on Thursday, February 06, 2020 - 07:51 am: Edit

I would say that, the Franz Joseph models are in 3 categories rather than 2, they're in "Federation", (appropriate scale, 3125,3788,omni), and "Franz Joseph Designs" categories.

I just think it would be easier to browse the space stations if all of them were in their own category instead of being scattered with everything else in their faction, and omni.

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Thursday, February 06, 2020 - 10:37 am: Edit

On redesigning the entire Shapeways site. Shapeways has designed its site to sell items and they have designed their site to do that regardless of the shop that produced it. Shop owners have asked Shapeways to let folks search within their shops to no avail because Shapeways is in the business of printing things and they don't really care which shop you get it from. There just isn't an easy way to redesign ADB's shop. I would need to touch each item to edit it.


And make no mistake, by the time I add scale and empire for each item and try to categorize it by what type of "thing" it is (cruiser, light cruiser, war cruiser, scout, carrier, station, battle station, base station, starbase, battleship, war destroyer, destroyer, heavy destroyer, etc.) my time is gone for weeks with nearly 2000 items to handle. Fun fact: if it takes 10 minutes per item, it would take 40 8-hour days to change the shop. That is eight weeks -- two months -- of my time where I do NOTHING but edit ships.

What products do you not want? The Tholian MSSB which I am proofreading? Traveller Prime Directive? The R4T Module? Whatever Federation Commander module Steve creates?

Just because it CAN be done doesn't mean it is a good use of my time and my time is not unlimited.

In all truth, I am trying to have a life. I have a fiance. I need to move from my apartment to a house and during the almost seven years I have been here, I have added things -- and I am doing it solo in my "spare" time. I am trying to be healthy and walk and that takes time.

If you want stations, search the words "omni scale". When that comes up, limit it to Miniatures (on the left). When that comes up, limit that to Scifi. When that comes up, limit it to Space Station. That gets you all the space stations we have done. Not all of the results are ours, but you only have 73 items to look at right now.

By Steven Zamboni (Szamboni) on Thursday, February 06, 2020 - 01:39 pm: Edit

Search "omni scale station" and the first 27 results are the ADB base stations and battle stations (consistent naming FTW). The Andro straggles in at spot 33 because it doesn't have the word "station" in its name (but does have it as a keyword). Their search engine does have some power behind it once it's pointed in the right direction considering it's sifting through tens of thousands of listings.

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 02:52 pm: Edit

Because of the snow, I am working from home today. SVC and SPP aren't at work to give you blow-by-blow information, but I'll post a list here when all items are released.

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 06:05 pm: Edit

Ships released:

3788 Scale Flivver War Cruiser and War Destroyer
3788 Scale Flivver Heavy Cruiser and War Cruiser
3788 Scale Flivver War Destroyer and Frigate MGL

3125 Scale Klingon F5LK Refitted Frigate Leader WE
3788 Scale Klingon F5LK Refitted Frigate Leader WE
3125 Scale Klingon F5LB Frigate Leader WEM

3125 Scale WYN Pocket Battleship (PBB) Kit CVN
3125 Scale WYN Pocket Battlecruiser Kit CVN

3125 Scale Fed Classic New Light Cruiser Coll. WEM
3788 Scale Fed Classic New Light Cruiser Coll.
3125 Scale Federation New Light Cruiser Collection
3788 Scale Federation New Light Cruiser Collection
3125 Scale Federation Light Command Cruiser WEM
3788 Scale Federation Light Command Cruiser WEM
3125 Scale Fed Classic Light Command Cruiser WEM
3788 Scale Fed Classic Light Command Cruiser WEM

3125 Scale Klingon F5L Frigate Leader WEM
3788 Scale Klingon F5L Frigate Leader WEM
3125 Scale Klingon F5-Based Frigate Collection WEM
3788 Scale Klingon F5-Based Frigate Collection WEM

7000 Scale Frax Battleship (BB) MGL
7000 Scale Frax Fleet Submarine Collection MGL
7000 Scale Frax Fleet Builder Collection MGL
7000 Scale Frax Fleet Core Collection MGL

7000 Scale Andromedan Fleet Intruder Collection
7000 Scale Andromedan Fleet Dominator Collection

7000 Scale Flivver Fleet Builder Collection MGL
7000 Scale Flivver Fleet Core Collection MGL
3788 Scale Flivver Frigate (FF) MGL
3788 Scale Flivver War Destroyer Scout (DWS)
3788 Scale Flivver Dreadnought (DN) MGL
3788 Scale Flivver War Destroyer (DW) MGL
3788 Scale Flivver War Cruiser (CW) MGL

3125 Scale Kzinti New Drone Bombardment Cruiser SR
3788 Scale Kzinti New Drone Bombardment Cruiser SR

3125 Scale Iridani Tugboat MGL
3788 Scale Iridani Tugboat MGL
3125 Scale Iridani Supply Dock MGL
3788 Scale Iridani Supply Dock MGL
3125 Scale Iridani Man-O-War MGL
3788 Scale Iridani Man-O-War MGL

By Jay Gustafson (Jay13) on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 06:24 pm: Edit

Bought a federation basestation it’s been awhile I really like your mini s keep up the good work

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Friday, March 06, 2020 - 03:54 pm: Edit

We are starting to release ships. There are 42 items going up today!

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, March 06, 2020 - 04:15 pm: Edit

3788 Fed classic CX
3125 Fed classic CX
3788 Fed gridded CX
3125 Fed gridded CX
3788 Fed classic CVF
3125 Fed classic CVF
3788 Fed gridded CVF
3125 Fed gridded CVF
3788 Klingon plain D5L
3125 Klingon plain D5L
3788 Klingon aztek D5LK
3125 Klingon aztek D5LK

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, March 06, 2020 - 04:50 pm: Edit

3788 Romulan KE5
3125 Romulan KE5
3788 Romulan KE7
3125 Romulan KE7
3788 Romulan KEX
3125 Romulan KEX
3788 Hydran thoroughbred fast cruiser
3125 Hydran thoroughbred fast cruiser
3788 Hydran Pegasus light cruiser
3125 Hydran Pegasus light cruiser
3788 Hydran Count d'Monet destroyer leader
3125 Hydran Count d'Monet destroyer leader
3788 Hydran Picador Minesweeper
3125 Hydran Picador Minesweeper

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, March 06, 2020 - 05:28 pm: Edit

Omni Hydran Super Stinger Flight (6)
3788 Kzinti heavy command cruiser CCH
3125 Kzinti heavy command cruiser CCH
3788 Kzinti light X-cruiser CMX
3125 Kzinti light X-cruiser CMX
3125 Tholian X-Tech Frigate PCX
3788 Tholian X-Tech frigate PCX

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, March 06, 2020 - 05:43 pm: Edit

3125 Tholian X-Tech Frigate PCX Sprue of three
3788 Tholian X-Tech frigate PCX sprue of three
7000 Hydran Fusion Collection
7000 Hydran battleship
7000 Hydran Hellbore collection
7000 Hydran command collection
7000 Hydran builder collection
3788 Tholian CWX
3125 Tholian CWX

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, March 06, 2020 - 05:47 pm: Edit

That's all for this month.

By Mark Hutton (Trynda1701) on Friday, March 06, 2020 - 08:29 pm: Edit

I did not know the Tholian CWX was being released. Was looking at the store, and for a second, thought it was the PCX with a wrong picture. Interesting.

Thanks to all involved for the work to get these on the store.

By Jay Gustafson (Jay13) on Friday, March 06, 2020 - 08:35 pm: Edit

I bought the federation CX first thing looks nice thanks Steave

By Andrew Schwenzer (Andrew_Cluetain) on Friday, March 06, 2020 - 11:36 pm: Edit

Just noticed that there's a new option for material, "multi jet fusion plastic." While cheeper than what I usually get (smooth fine detail plastic), does anyone know how the 2 compare in terms of detail and paint / primer sticking to it? Thanks for any insight.

By Chris Nasipak (Ecs05norway) on Monday, March 09, 2020 - 08:55 am: Edit

Multijet Fusion is the former "HP Versatile Plastic" or whatever they called it -- it's basically a somewhat more refined version of the Versatile Plastic process, using a smaller particle size to get a smoother, less grainy output.

It is cheaper for some models and not so for others, compared to Detail Plastics. Where it is cheaper and the model will print in it, we have offered it.

As far as paint/primer it is still somewhat porous so treat it as you would the Versatile Plastic. It holds detail better but is not as crisp as Detail Plastic.

By Chris Nasipak (Ecs05norway) on Monday, March 09, 2020 - 12:07 pm: Edit

A lot of people are disappointed -- when it was back in beta it was only a dollar or two more expensive than Versatile Plastic. Now it's right around the same level as Detail, give or take a dollar or two here and there.

By John Williams (Johndw) on Monday, March 09, 2020 - 04:14 pm: Edit

Curious about the future plans for the 7000 scale models. My poor Fed DN broke in an accident the other day. I might be able to salvage it, might not. Thinking about replacing it but not sure if I'd want to get the core set all over again, but then again it does have ships that I wouldn't mind having more of. I dunno, I'm just wondering what options are being considered for the future.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, March 09, 2020 - 05:32 pm: Edit

We plan to respond to customer input.

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 01:03 pm: Edit

Okay. Shapeways did a major re-price of one of the materials today. It may become a viable material for nearly all our ships.

Due to this, what I can do is add a tag to each ship (not a category down the side, but a tag at the bottom). This tag could be 3788 Klingon or 3125 Klingon or 3788 Fed Classic or 3125 Federation -- you get the idea.

If you click on the tag, then it throws you into a page with other ships with the same tag. Now the downside is that it will show you ships from other shops with that same tag. However, on a quick check, it doesn't look like other shops are using that sort of tag.

Will that help with what you are requesting?

By Nick Blank (Nickgb) on Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 01:21 pm: Edit

Library classification skills to the rescue!

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 02:56 pm: Edit

I'm glad to find my library cataloger skills aren't that rusty!

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Wednesday, April 01, 2020 - 07:34 pm: Edit

I'm earnestly curious as to the new mystery material.