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Hmm ... it's a bit to long and way to thick. My hope was to make a casing to avoid this LEGO appearance. But it is too fat.
I opened it. At least its possible to exchange the batteries.

 

Only by destroying it. It seems to be glued. Probably the fiber parts are embedded in the transparent material. Its a circle of very tiny pipes. Something like this:

 

Well, slowly I become bored with all this EU avatars. I will postpone Jamira and go straight to "Woman On A Chair"

I got a chair already as 3D model. Arne Jacobsen Series 7 Chair.

I asked my new modeler for costs and he said $150. That's okay for such a figure.

This time I think really big. Unfortunately there is no space in our flat for an 1:1 figure :-( and I will make an 1:2 scaled one only (~700mm). My second attempt at this size. I will ask an old friend who works with stainless steel (handrails and such) to bend and weld the legs of the chair for me with 10mm tubes.

This can become a really exciting project!

 

I just made the final work at Narfi. The second right hand with original dagger without illumination:

 

Yawn! I'm bored ...
It'll take some days until I get the model of "Woman on a chair". At least "Vikings 5.2" will start in 8 days at Prime and I'm at season 3 of "GOT". All these silly projects on my to-do-list arn't that exciting. I'm too lazy to finish them.

Occasionally I still play "Silent Hunter III", WWII uboat simulation. If you survive with your Typ VIIC until the end of 1944 you may be able to command a Typ XXI uboat.

This uboat was the blueprint for all following developments of uboats worldwide. Even the russian and american nuclear uboats base upon this one. I own an 1:72 Revell model of the legendary Typ VIIC uboat. But I was fascinated by TYP XXI since ever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_XXI_submarine
My dream was an open model with interior. There were early plans to make a paper model. Yes, it's really long ago, that I'm pregnant with this idea. Long before 3D-printers arose. And hey, since 2005 I live in the house of a former commander of this type: U-3004. To make a long story short: I ordered the drawings already for 39 Euro ;-)

 

So at least one thing this tread was good for :-)

And here comes the biggest joke: U-3004 was laid down at June 4th 1944. Exactly 10 years before I was born. I should really put some effort into it!

 

The wheel spins. Today I got 2kg of fresh filament food for my printer and will get 100 new steel pins tomorrow. I asked Igor if he can improve 3d-models grabbed from EU a bit. This time for theProphet's favorite. Fish net stockings are just a texture ingame. Probably we can make them real 3D for printing. Would be really cool. The drawings of the uboat were announced for next week.

 

Yes. I am a mechanical engineer with all my heart. A well designed machine like this submarine is indeed sexy for me :-)
I'm aware of all the terror and harm the german uboats brought to mankind during WW2. I know that it was a result of Hitlers megalomania. I'm not proud of this dark charpter of our history, vice versa! Nervertheless this boat was an outstanding technical and logistic masterpiece. It causes prickling.

 

I print most parts separate. Print several parts at once doesn't save time. The printing time is the same. But you increase the risk of a bigger loss (time and material) if something goes wrong during the print.