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The parts of me that are not a terminal window. Mostly things with a physical result, which turns out to be the point — after a day of abstractions it is good to make something you can drop on your foot.

3D printing

Started as brackets and cable management, escalated the way these things do. Most of what comes off the printer is functional: organisers, mounts, replacement parts for things that were never meant to have replacement parts. The occasional print exists purely to find out whether it would work.

The genuinely satisfying part is the same as with software — modelling the problem correctly first, then watching the machine be tediously precise about it for fourteen hours.

Straight off the printer

Raw prints, before any paint goes near them. Layer lines, supports and all — this is the part where you find out whether the model was worth the fourteen hours.

LilithUnpainted · horns printed in place
Lilith, second angleUnpainted
GaryUnpainted
Stitch, before paintThe same model painted below

Painting models

Slow, fiddly, and completely absorbing. It is the only hobby I have where the feedback loop is measured in evenings and there is no undo, which is probably why it works as a counterweight to everything else here.

Some of these started life as the raw prints above — Stitch appears in both, once in bare filament and once after several evenings with a brush.

Painted

The same hobby, several evenings later. Photographs are always less forgiving than the shelf — that is a camera problem and I am choosing to believe it.