Anyone adopting a turtle

I'm just asking to see how many people want to get real computercraft stuff
As soon as I'm done working for my dad I'm going to use that money to buy a computer to sit in my room

What?

Cloudy, on 20 January 2013 - 02:51 PM said:

What?

this

Nice, 3d printing FTW!

Now I can't decide which one I want more; a trusty little mining turtle to sit faithfully at my side, or a battle hardened melee turtle to smite all of my enemies! Always the hard choices… Might just have to get both to spare my sanity :D/>

dissy, on 20 January 2013 - 03:28 PM said:

Nice, 3d printing FTW!

Now I can't decide which one I want more; a trusty little mining turtle to sit faithfully at my side, or a battle hardened melee turtle to smite all of my enemies! Always the hard choices… Might just have to get both to spare my sanity :D/>

Defs melee turtle… personally I want an advanced computer…

cute little turtles
could use a repaint though, they are looking a bit dull

Why was I not informed of this…
TAKE MY MONEY!
I can't decide which is cuter!!!!

Go Go Gadget Turtles!
I just ordered a mining turtle and melee turtle. It says they will ship on 1/30. I'll have to post an action shot picture here once they arrive.

This should go great with my minecraft papercraft collection! I'm thinking set against the deep dark lava cave

dissy, on 20 January 2013 - 04:45 PM said:

Go Go Gadget Turtles!
I just ordered a mining turtle and melee turtle. It says they will ship on 1/30. I'll have to post an action shot picture here once they arrive.

This should go great with my minecraft papercraft collection! I'm thinking set against the deep dark lava cave

that lava cave link sure is a amazing 403 page

hahahaha, best thread ever xD, and nice picture BigShinyThings

Cloudy, on 20 January 2013 - 02:51 PM said:

What?

That's exactly what I said after reading the first post…

Skullblade, on 20 January 2013 - 07:51 PM said:

dissy, on 20 January 2013 - 04:45 PM said:

Go Go Gadget Turtles!
I just ordered a mining turtle and melee turtle. It says they will ship on 1/30. I'll have to post an action shot picture here once they arrive.

This should go great with my minecraft papercraft collection! I'm thinking set against the deep dark lava cave

that lava cave link sure is a amazing 403 page

Oops, it looks like they block direct linking. Same URL works when using the link on their site.
If you go to the main site http://minecraftpapercraft.com/
Click Backgrounds at the top, and it's "Cave Background" by tk549, currently in the top row 4th over.

I just adopted a whole family of mining turtles. I don't know why but mining turtles are awesome. I think it's the fact that they so bravely go underground into all those dark lava and monster filled tunnels for me. They're so plucky. Sometimes I have to go rescue them if they run out of fuel or if I quit the game by acident or unload the chunk. I'll never abandon Rodrigue and Gerald, if anything ever happened to them I would definitely shed a tear.

I'm totally buying 3 of those once I get money.

PhilHibbs, on 25 January 2013 - 04:56 AM said:

I just adopted a whole family of mining turtles. I don't know why but mining turtles are awesome. I think it's the fact that they so bravely go underground into all those dark lava and monster filled tunnels for me. They're so plucky. Sometimes I have to go rescue them if they run out of fuel or if I quit the game by acident or unload the chunk. I'll never abandon Rodrigue and Gerald, if anything ever happened to them I would definitely shed a tear.

You name your turtles too? I thought I was the only one attached to my turtles. I usually have a total of four, and I name them after the Teenage Mutant Nunja Turtles. Sometimes, I have a master computer that I call Splinter.

Cranium, on 25 January 2013 - 07:47 AM said:

I usually have a total of four, and I name them after the Teenage Mutant Nunja Turtles. Sometimes, I have a master computer that I call Splinter.

lol you will love the turtle-colouring addon if they ever add it then :D/>

personally I would buy them if they could dig a hole in my floor and beat up stuff… oh well

Wow, when I placed my order it said they would ship on the 30th, but just today I got a tracking number email that says expected delivery is tomorrow. Happy surprise! :D/>

dissy, on 25 January 2013 - 08:54 AM said:

Wow, when I placed my order it said they would ship on the 30th, but just today I got a tracking number email that says expected delivery is tomorrow.

But they were waiting on my door step once I got home!

These will work great with the paper craft scenes I linked to previously! At first I worried they would be too large, but it turns out they are a little smaller than I expected (Even better)

I wasn't expecting them to arrive for another week and a half, so I don't have anything printed out yet to perch them on.
So instead, here they are digging up some key caps from my (apparently very dusty) keyboard.

Spoiler

They look like they are made out of sugar or some other grains like sand. I kinda wish they would be a little shinier.

Cranium, on 25 January 2013 - 10:36 AM said:

They look like they are made out of sugar or some other grains like sand. I kinda wish they would be a little shinier.

Actually yes, they are printed out of sandstone.
It feels much stronger than plastic, although yes it is rough feeling, sort of like an emery board.
But in my experience even 3d printed plastic feels rough and never smooth, due to printing one layer at a time.

Edit: http://www.shapeways.com/materials/sandstone

Cranium, on 25 January 2013 - 10:36 AM said:

They look like they are made out of sugar or some other grains like sand. I kinda wish they would be a little shinier.

The printing job also isn't so great and they look kind of streaky and there are all kinds of lines

Well, if they are printed by molding sand grains together, then I am concerned that they would crack with the dry air during winter.

Skullblade, on 25 January 2013 - 10:41 AM said:

The printing job also isn't so great and they look kind of streaky and there are all kinds of lines

Anything 3d printed will have lines in it, due to being built up one layer at a time.
Regarding the colors, yes it has a similar effect as an ink jet printer, so you get bleeding. But it's one of the few materials you can 3d print photo-realistic color scales onto. The vibrant color plastics are actually the material in that color, and the only way of changing color is to have multiple plastics and a printer with multiple print heads. More like a paint program with colored squares to select instead of a color wheel.

Also keep in mind how detailed and close up that picture really is. It was a 3260x2448 @72 DPI, taken at 3 inches away.
With the turtles sitting below my monitor about a foot or a foot and a half away, I can barely tell.

I'll take some pictures at 3", 6", and 12" so you can more see what I mean.

Cranium:
Yes sandstone is brittle. Hard and ridged, but brittle.
They have a sealant coating over the final product, but I'm not sure exactly how the cold or dry air would affect them.
It's pretty cold here in Ohio, and they've been sitting outside where it's 16F for the past couple hours. They were in sealed bags though, so the outside humidity didn't have a chance to get to them.

That link I posted to shapeways sandstone page gives all the details. I was sure to re-read over all of that before I decided to order.
(I've both done and have had done 3d prints before, so I'm fairly familiar with the process)
I most certainly don't want to talk anyone out of buying them, but you should certainly make an informed purchase before doing so.

Another thing I wasn't expecting, there is no bottom. I assumed they would be hollow, as that's much faster to print and uses less material. Even when needing support strength they generally print a honeycomb structure inside, but it's slow and expensive.
But usually the hollow part doesn't matter, since it's sealed. These guys have no bottoms and so you can stick your finger right up in them.
I don't consider it a bad thing myself, but it was a little unexpected none the less.

If anyone is interested in the 3d printing process, there is a youtube video titled "3D printing minecraft models with a Zprinter 650" that also uses sandstone. Fortunately most of the video is in time-lapse too.

unfortunately, When they are printed there is remaining material that wasn't part of the model. That remaining material holds the rest of it together during the construction process.. Once the print is finished, you have to get the remaining material out of it. This requires a hole.

I didn't think they were bottomless, but It makes sense that they are.

I'm ordering a couple once I make enough spending money MTurking.

Sorry for the delays, I got called away for a bit.

I did take a couple pictures, but I'm not really happy with how they turned out. (Sun was already down, and the lighting in my room is craptastic)
Using a white glossy backdrop, I took three pictures with the camera at 12 inch, 6 inch, and 3 inch away, and put them together in a single comparison.

The first two are more representative of what it really looks like in real life. You can only make out the grainy texture and lines in the super close up one.
With the point on Mr Melee, it's probably not a wise idea to let him hover 3 inches from your eye either. Turtles very much love to drink sweet sweet eye juices ;}

Tomorrow I'll have access to a much better digital camera, as well as the laser printers for testing some papercraft with.
The turtles are crying out "om nom nom give us blocks to break!"

dissy, on 25 January 2013 - 05:29 PM said:

* snip *

Your camera and human eyes probably have a different focal length though. So it isn't really directly comparable. But I think it's still a representative experiment. :)/> (I guess I just had the urge to mention that :mellow:/> )