Spaceship Found in a Car Boot Sale

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Just came across a link to a load of free 3D models on NASA's web site

https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models

I suspect they all need a high-resolution printer though.

[RockDoctor]

and is VERY low resolution monochrome graphics...

Hmmm, that reminds me of another game I played once - which came in two 36kb-ish versions, one for wireframe graphics and one for solid-bodies with hidden edges not visible.
Can't put my finger on it's name.

[RockDoctor]

I suspect they all need a high-resolution printer though.

Oh, I do hope that at least the hammer (https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/hammer) doesn't need a high-resolution printer. That would be ... almost indecent. Mind you, they also provide patterns for making a 3-d printed pinhole camera for eclipse observation (https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/2d3d-print ... projectors), which is very much taking the technological walnut to the task of smashing sledgehammers.
They've also got an interesting range of elevation models for various bits of scenery - Apollo landing sites, several asteroids, Mars - which might be useful for other modelling projects.

I saw a comment recently that the "Tianve pulsar" OXZ is rather aged, and seeing 3d files for supernova models (https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/SN-1006 , https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/sn1987a) reminds me of this.

A knuckle-duster, disguised as a "multi-purpose multi-tool". https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/mpmt ? Yeah, well I guess there are some things you can't get negotiate your way out of, and the ISS doesn't have that many front doors you can storm out of and go down the pub.

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Just after the board went down I added another craft to my mighty fleet - not actually a spaceship, but definitely spaceship-adjacent since there's one parked nearby on Tracy Island when not in use!





This is a Matchbox model and unfortunately a bit the worse for wear, the folding wings are a bit bashed at the edges, but not bad for 50p!

[cbr]

Lovely Ship!

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Saw another one in a charity shop yesterday but it was incomplete and they wanted more for it than I paid for the one I have.

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And another one - got it in Portobello Road yesterday, took me most of the evening to assemble. A 1/100th scale Lunar Excursion Model, sold as a puzzle kit - e.g. with deliberately vague instructions, you have to figure out a lot of how the bits go together. This was made in 2004 as a stand-alone kit, but it's now only available as part of a Saturn V kit which I'd imagine is seriously expensive - this cost me £3 and was in its original (badly battered) packaging so I could see it was complete.





Details on this and other models here

https://www.famemaster.com/product/satu ... 100-model/

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Picked up a cheap job lot of the Matchbox Thunderbirds toys, most notably Thunderbird 3, the spaceship:



I now have everything apart from the space station, Thunderbirds 5, not sure they actually made a model for that.



Thunderbird 4 and Lady Penelope's car are unfortunately badly battered, and the car is of course ridiculously out of scale with everything else, but never mind.

[spud42]

Nice! Love the thunderbird 2 .... jealous..lol

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TB2 has always been my favourite too. It's a shame they didn't supply more cargoes for them, such as the Mole digging machine - I think there was a bigger model that included the Mole and other cargo, sold as a kit with a magazine as a weekly part work, but I'd imagine it cost a hundred quid or so by the time you had all the bits.

[cbr]

TB2 has always been my favourite too. It's a shame they didn't supply more cargoes for them, such as the Mole digging machine...

You seem to have all the skills to make this..

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2861764/files

work?

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TB2 has always been my favourite too. It's a shame they didn't supply more cargoes for them, such as the Mole digging machine...

You seem to have all the skills to make this..

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2861764/files

work?

Not me - when I want something 3D printed I ask a friend who has the gear, but he can't handle really fine detail like that model. It turns out that Matchbox did make a mole model, but it's grossly out of scale, much bigger than their Thunderbird 2 pod. There are lots of others on sale in various sizes, so I'll just keep an eye open for one going cheap.

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I had a TB2 that would have been 18" , I dont think we bought it to Australia when we moved here in 1967... i know i had it but dont remember having it here... whould be worth a few quid today...
If you want something like that model printed you need to have it printed in resin. you can get very fine detail and can get places online to print it for you... all those PCBWAY adds...lol

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Two models scaled to 50mm each, image composed from 2 photograph(')s,
T4 model was centersplit, older spool pla...

Love the bookcase shot(s).

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Two models scaled to 50mm each, image composed from 2 photograph(')s,
T4 model was centersplit, older spool pla...

Love the bookcase shot(s).

That's quite nice, but possibly a bit of pain to clean up. Did they do the carrier vehicle for the mole? It was always launched from a tracked carrier (carried in TB2 with the Mole loaded on it) which is usually included in toy versions

https://youtu.be/Acs2x8N5VXk?si=MnwnocnAMBGSpDNV