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Holy hell, that Stargate is pretty awesome. And it’s just screaming BYJ48 stepper motor! (the same I used for Jabba’s Throne). What a great little project!

Good idea with “old school” hacking – I sometimes get dragged so far down the 3d/digital printing route, I sometimes forget to back up and use actual skills.

I got some blue XPS off the fleabay. I forget who sent me a link (it may have even been after I was moaning in a Facebook post, I can’t remember) but it arrived today. So the first thing I did was cut a chunk off and draw some wobbly wood-grain effect lines.

It was no better than the styrofoam! Top is drawn using my “hot pen” and is the finish I prefer. Below that the lines were drawn in pencil. On the second piece, I drew the lines using an old ballpoint pen (it had run out of ink but the result was the same). So, all in all, I’m pretty determined that I need a cnc hot pen machine for drawing walls and wood and magic runes and other stuff. “No more new projects” has gone well and truly out of the window….