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Tsum Sherry & Jake in the new Tsum House
Hello everyone ! I did mention how I have been busy but still have been working on stuff in the background ! Well here it is !
I made 2 tsums ! Jake and Sherry from Resident evil 6 ! I felt that these two really deserved to be made into tsums ! But I didn't stop there ! My longest project to finsh was this:
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A Tsum House ! With everything they could ever need for. But whats this ? Why is one room seperated from the others ? Well this room isn't meant for them but for a different tsum ! A tsum that is very into science and likes to wear black shades.
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I have more stuff planned with the little tsums that hopefully will get more roommates in the future. But for now have this little painting. Sherry and Jake tsum seem to like it a lot !
#tsum house#tsum tsums all happy now#tsum jake#tsum sherry#look at me having worked on this for months#I could have bought baldurs gate 3 instead of a 3d printer#but without the house would have taken longer#resident evil tsums#jake muller#sherry birkin#resident evil#when tsums take your time away from the comic#☆whiskers crafts☆#more tsum content in the future !
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I firmly believe that the solution to 99% of the problems we're facing as a society right now is Building Community
And the best part of this solution? Everyone can participate to the extent they are able/willing and it doesn't need to reach a critical mass to make a significant difference. Every community that is built, whether it's between two people or an entire town, is beneficial to all of us.
You don't need special skills to do it, you don't need to know how to organize or even be good at socializing! It can be as simple as shoveling snow from your neighbours sidewalk even if you never speak to them.
We all have skills we're good ar and enjoy, we all have resources others lack. I don't have much money but I've got endless time, for example, so a friend drops her dog off with me a couple days a week. I don't charge her because I benefit in other ways but also because it helps build community. Not asking for cash allows her to pay using resources she has more of, either to me directly (she drives me home from my hospital appointments each monday), and indirectly by helping others which further builds our community in a pay it forward sort of way.
Community uses Good Will and Favours as currency instead of money and it's the only thing that can break the back of capitalism.
Community can take a lot of up front investment to get started, and not every person you invest in will add value, but in the long run your total return investment will be more than returned to you.
#we were thinking of putting an addition onto the house for me to live in#which may habe required an engineer to sign off on#running thousands to more than ten thousand dollars in cost#but some mental health advice and the loan of my 3d printer#and occasional loan of my vehicle#meant I wouldn't have had to pay a cent for it#(we wound up going a different route but still the offer was made!)#just one example of many#offer freely of what you have in abundance#whether it be time or energy#strength or intelligence#or even money if that happens to be the resource you are most blessed with#this is something that literally every person can do#and every person that does it makes a significant positive change to the world around them#this is how we beat back the darkness#this is how we win against the corporations
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House of the Dragon Collection
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Map of Westeros [2ft x 3ft] done with watercolor pencil, watercolor, and acryllic paints.
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Blackfyre and Darksister are 3d printed, handpainted by me. Files purchased from Oniric_Armory on cults3d.com.
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#3d printer#3d printing#cosplay#westeros#house of the dragon#hotd#hotd season 2#aemond targaryen#house targaryen#daemon targaryen#seven kingdoms#fantasy maps#maps#map making#larp props#prop making#cosplay props#props#swords
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Okay, time for more Owl House posting
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A Luz!
My King figurine is a resin cast of a clay sculpture. But the clay didn't want to play nice with Luz's smaller features, like her eyelashes or fingers. So, I picked up a different medium: Digital modelling. This is actually the first full character I've ever made digitally. It was a learning experience.
And yes
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That includes rudimentary rigging.
The clothes are also modular, so I can even make different outfits later!
#my art#the owl house#owl house#luz noceda#digital sculpture#3d modeling#blender#blender3d#I didn't want to share this until it was fully done#but I currently don't have access to a 3D printer#so that's probably going to be a while#In the meantime please enjoy my janky renders and screenshot
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Yeah so the cutting edge needs work but I'm figuring it out
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hmmmmm. 3d printer object head
#i was walking around in my house thinking of object heads and saw my dad's 3d printers ajd i was like ykw. yeah#mystic yaps
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Shoutout to my roommate for committing chemical warfare against me literally 2 weeks before I can move out
#she got a 3d resin printer and is using it completely irresponsibily and my whole house smells like fumes and shes going to do lasting#damage to me and my dog ✌️#probably not but also maybe. i wish she would die.#m
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So I grossly underestimated how fun crocheting starghans is (pattern by @dofnup) and quickly ran out of yarn.
My favorite yarn shop has really limited hours so
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yeah I started another one while I wait for a day off that coincides with the yarn shop being open
#in this house we stan the starghan#starghan#crochet#crochetblr#craftblr#blankets#soft#th0t pics#I’m a 3D printer powered by anxiety#anxiety and tea
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i can't even Talk to my bf when he is 3d printing -_-
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“I made it with my 3D printer” — Carlos accurately representing printer nerds everywhere
(I hate the ship name, but I actually think they’re the most normal high school couple in this movie- not everyone can come out in high school! Some people take longer! It’s all fine!)
#gonna reblog this one later if I can find the pictures of my 3D printed engagement ring#yes it was to test the fit before we ordered the actual metal band but like#lmao that’s just what printer men are like#based on the d2 shots it actually looks like he’s using a resin printer that uhh shouldn’t be able to handle metallic filament#but we’re going to assume he’s upgraded by now#or else there’s liquid resin that I don’t know about (very possible)#there’s currently only one functional printer in my house rn….#but there’s parts for another bedslinger that’s just been disassembled for upgrades currently#and two more on order#so yeah this uh#this tracks#blue’s descendants rewatch
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not to sound like a bitch, but why can my roommates have the house as cold as they please no matter how cold and uncomfortable I am (just put on warm clothes and a blanket!) but god forbid I turn the heat to 74 (this apparently is too hot for Men to act as functional members of society)
#like it started kind of funny#but like I’m about to throw hands#I cannot keep waking up to a 68 degree house#it’s not my fault this dude has an apartment’s worth of appliances in one room#I just don’t understand why it’s just not as important of a struggle when I’m uncomfortable#I go out of my way to make my space warm and insulated#I wear warm and cozy clothes#but if I ask him to turn off either of his two backup power units for his two massive PCs#or maybe not use the 3D printer in there#or the air fryer#or microwave or freezer#or the 4 monitors that are on constantly#I just don’t feel like I should have to suffer for his own self imposed problem#sorry rant
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A #commission work Lord Death Head with Hands made for #mechatronic and ready for #3dprint made with #ZBrush and #Render with #keyshot
#3d #3dart #noia #stylized #museum #death #skeleton #horror #halloween #atraction #serie #comic #fanart #prop #haunted #house #hauntedhouse #fantasy #horrormovies #monster #3dartist #stl
#3d#3dart#freelancer#prop#3dartist#3dprint#fantasy#3dprinting#skull#horror#horror films#halloween#haunted#haunted house#3d printing#zbrush#3d model#3d modeling#3d printer#3d art#3dtumblr
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#3d printing service in bangalore#succession#across the spiderverse#welcome home#the owl house#3d printing companies in bangalore#wally darling#the mandalorian#3d printer
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I grew up someplace with seasons. Rainy spring and autumn, freezing temps in winter, hot summer. Also, for reasons no one adequately explained at the time, but in retrospect are to do with the national thirst to approach building materials the way Jackson Pollock approached paint cans, mandatory architecture basics in 8th grade.
You can have flat roofs where it rains profusely, provided you either put in a steep incline of X degrees and a certain amount of overhang, or a very subtle one that leads to a gutter system. No one is saying you need to have a roof parallel to the floor in your home. Just like no one is forcing you to make twisty walls.
"Tires might leech into the soil" Yep. It's why, in countries where it's illegal to bury tires, they use an earth bag construction for earth ships. You can also go for just rammed earth without tires, or ye olde wattle and daub, but those options, while eco friendly and viable, tend to be prohibitively expensive if you live anywhere with building codes.
You can put rain water collection in walls, but unless you're willing to pay big bucks for an engineer and crew who can do that incredibly well and then maintain it diligently, you should probably put it on the outside of the walls. Don't really see how that is in conflict with the earth ship principle.
Several people I know have that grey water filtering system with plants in their back yard. It works great, both when used for vegetable gardens or when rerouted for things like flushing toilets. (Shoutout to my primary school friend Kim, who treated the flush as such a source of entertainment, her parents did both.) Bonus if you live on an incline in a rainy area: soil retention!
"Good luck having windows when it freezes"--You need windows. People do extremely poorly when robbed of natural light. The trick is to use double glazing and make as many of them as you can face more or less towards the equator, where they'll catch the most sun in winter. Not only does this help in the darkest days with the Morbs™, it also helps in passively warming a properly insulated house. You can even use tricks like putting a roof overhang over them that blocks out the high sun in summer, but not the low sun in winter, and/or planting deciduous trees in front of them.
"You'll have fungus issues with constructions in the ground". Not if you pick your location, building materials, soil and waterproofing right. This might require, again, an architect or engineer who understands that they're building next to a river in a place where three weeks of non stop downpour are possible before all of it freezes above and below ground, but it's really not the gotcha you think it is. Source: living in a rainy country where basements are considered essential in a house, even if you're building in a flooding zone.
You wanna know what the biggest issue is with eco housing and earth ships and quirky shapes in places with seasons and weather? Mold and indoor air quality. And it's not from building with unconventional materials (wood and brick structures are equally affected as earthen ones) or rain or groundwater or eschewing the saddle roof. It's people insulating their houses so well, you can warm them with a single 30 bucks space heater in a polar winter. Because they're spaces in which people do stuff like wash and clean and breathe and put house plants, and (especially early concepts, less so newer ones) ventilation is the last thing most people think of if you come from a tradition where, 30 or so years ago, an architect would laugh in your face when you talked about minute drafts and tell you to burn more oil in your furnace for a cheaper solution.
And if you're saying, great, you went to 8th grade, now show me a place where this earth ship business was implemented in a conventional community... There's Olst. And Zwolle. Schloss Tempelhof. Port Rowan. There seems to be an earthship eco-gîte in Ger, Normandy, but I can't seem to find a way to book it. Most of those even have access to public transit.
I feel like yall don't know bout earthships??
An earthship is a building that's built out of recycled materials (glass bottles, old tires, cans, etc..) and mostly Cob walls with solarpanels, wind turbines, greenhouses, and large water capture system to ensure all you need within the walls. All these components help regulate the temp for both plants and you creating a proper oasis from all of itnall
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The most famous one, and one of the first ones ever made back in the 1970s by a small off grid group working together is The Phoenix which was built as the model for how cool these guys could be its now a place you can take tours or rent-
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But now there is so many different styles and cool ideas for it! Now some of these are merely concepts
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But you can adapt them to any weather for your particular light/weather/energy conditions.
The main thing about Earthships is typically they are illegal to build as the US government considers them waste sites due to the materials their built out of.
#architecture#earthship#solarpunk#eco friendly building#please stop being friggin house extremists#“this aspect doesn't work in that region” is not a reason to throw an entire concept away#take what you can use to make things better and make those work#like that one Hungarian who wanted to make loam/adobe an affordable building material again and decided to jam it into a 3D printer
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Tumblr really needs to latch onto Kindred and Wolf from League of Legends. I think they would do numbers.
#i saw a cool scrupture in the same colors and now i really want a wolf/kindred statue in my house#off to google to see if they have it#aw the nicest one is a 3d printer model#maybe someday
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"As 3D-printing methods continue to evolve, it’s not uncommon to see this method employed for various engineering projects, especially in the construction of affordable housing, structures, and schools.
In Ireland, a first-of-its-kind social housing project has been built from the ground up, using 3D printing as a time and money-saving solution.
In fact, it’s Europe’s first 3D-printed social housing project, fully compliant with international standards. In Grange Close, Dundalk, the three-unit terraced build is now a milestone achievement in eastern Ireland. It was created by Harcourt Technologies Ltd (HTL.tech) and assembled using COBOD’s BOD2 3D construction printer.
The unit is 3,550 square feet and is divided into three separate homes, each measuring 1,184 square feet.
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The use of this technology allowed for a 35% faster construction process, which took 132 days from start to finish. During that time, the 3D-printed superstructure itself was completed in just 12 printing days.
Conventional construction methods usually require more than 200 days, according to COBOD, meaning this method could be transformative in quickly scaling affordable housing options.
“Ireland’s housing crisis, driven by a decade of under-construction and rising demand, has reached critical levels, leading to widespread protests and influencing national elections,” HTL.tech shared in a press release.
“The rapid construction made possible by 3D printing offers a promising solution. The homes in Dundalk demonstrate how this technology can address housing shortages by dramatically reducing construction time and costs.”
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In the 132 days it took to go from initial site preparation to handing over keys to the client, builders say approximately half of the time savings came directly from 3D printing.
Additionally, during the project, COBOD upgraded the concrete hose of its printer, which increased its output by 40% and significantly increased the printing speed. With this upgrade, the company estimates that printing times for similar structures would be reduced to nine days instead of 12.
“We continue to improve our technology,” Henrik Lund-Nielsen, general manager and founder of COBOD International, said in a statement, “and although a hose update can be seen as a small step, the numbers from HTL.tech proves that it is not.”
Now, the client — a local housing council — will finish furnishing the homes and will rent them to social housing tenants at an affordable price.
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It’s a success that will surely have ripple effects.
“As the first 3D-printed social housing project in Europe, the Grange Close development sets a precedent for future housing solutions,” a press release from HTL.tech explained. “With countries like Sweden and Germany also experimenting with 3D-printed homes, this technology is poised to become a standard approach for addressing housing shortages.”
The statement also added that governments across Europe may increasingly adopt 3D printing to “deliver faster, more cost-effective housing solutions for low-income residents.”
“This project not only showcases the potential for rapid, sustainable construction but also serves as a blueprint for other nations facing similar challenges,” the statement concluded. “As 3D printing technology evolves, its role in shaping the future of housing construction looks increasingly promising.”"
-via GoodGoodGood, January 23, 2025
#ireland#europe#housing#housing shortage#affordable housing#housing crisis#3d printing#architecture#good news#hope
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