In the email these came with, Dave explains that the white is partly primer and partly because the model's red color is a fairly shallow dye job; the base material is white laser-sintered nylon. As you can see, he's started carving some surface details that were absent from the 3D model used to make the print (having been drawn onto the basic shape in Adam's original illustration), and drilled a 1/8" hole in the underside for mounting purposes. I'm starting to kick around ideas for a full-time display base I can model in Solid Edge and maybe print on the SET MakerBot.

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