Not myself, no. That would... probably not end well. I'm commissioning a proper model/toy customizer to do it for me.

>This is so awesome!

I agree! I'm also still looking forward to experimenting with the school Replicator 2X when I get the opportunity. It's funny, I went in Monday and said to my boss, the machine tool lab director, "I was thinking over break, we do a lot with subtractive manufacturing in the program here, we should get a 3D printer and look at additive too," and he said, "We have one! AJ [one of his other TAs] is doing an independent study project with it." So when my shift was over I beelined it to AJ's office and lo, there it was. We got to shooting the shit about the promise and the hassles of 3D printing; he started fiddling with his laptop while we were talking, and completely by coincidence, as I started to tell him that I'd gotten interested in it because I discovered this cool website a few weeks ago, he went to Tested to see what was new there. :)

We messed around some with the Phoenix Queen model on Monday, as I noted in my original post, and hopefully there'll be some time next week to try printing that version too. The Shapeways one is the one I'm sending to be painted, though.

I find 3D printing in general an exciting technology, now that it's getting to the maturity level where it actually does interesting and useful things and doesn't cost an absolute fortune. I think it's right on the cusp of becoming ubiquitous, and that's kind of my favorite stage in a technology's lifespan - mature enough that it's usable without the unending screwing around required in the hobbyist phase, young enough that it still has that oh-holy-shit edge. Not that I expect 3D printing, in particular, is ever quite going to lose that for me. I mean, a desktop 3D printer is a toy that makes other toys, which is like the living dream of everything six-year-old me ever wanted and 40-year-old me still pretty much does. I'd get my own Replicator 2X right now if I had the three grand kicking around.

Anyway, there may be other things that turn up in the EPU Shapeways store eventually, contingent on a) me managing to source 3D models and b) there actually being more than one 3D-printable thing in the UF universe that isn't a total, blatant IP violation. :)

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