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Arming a Hellsing Crew: the Harkonnen, Casull, Jackal and a Musket
Seras's Harkonnen cannon, Alucard's Casull and Jackal, and Rip Van Winkle's musket — a full Hellsing armoury, modelled, printed, hand-painted and carried around Comic Con Africa.
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Fifteen Buildings at 1:500: Architecture Models Have Taken Over Our Queue
Architecture students have sent us more than fifteen building models to print, nearly all of them at 1:500 — a scale that's far harder on a printer than it sounds. Here's what goes into one, and what fifteen of them has done to our capacity.
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The Corners an Extrusion Can't Turn
Ornate Signs needed a large illuminated ceiling frame with softly radiused corners — but aluminium extrusion only comes in straight lengths. We printed the eight corners in white PETG so they could be bonded in, sprayed with the rest of the frame, and disappear into the finish.
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Printing Killa's Helmet in Pieces So It Could Hold Someone's Headphones
A client in the Eastern Cape wanted a headphone stand worthy of their Sennheiser HD 490 Pros — so we printed Killa's helmet from Escape from Tarkov in four separate components and assembled it by hand.
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