>It's a toy version of a starship I created! How awesome is
>that? The ten-year-old who still lives inside me is in transports
>of delight.

Oh, I am so with you there -- not that I've had this specific experience, but it would be awesome beyond belief to have one of the starship designs in my head actually come into physical form. And in a way that would allow me to not have treat it as if it were made of spun glass.

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"Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis."
- Kenneth Boulding

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There's always LEGO, but a sufficient brick supply to achieve satisfactory fidelity would probably cost me more than even commissioning a professional 3D artist and having Shapeways print it off. At least I can bribe my better half into painting it for me, should this happen.