solarbird | Dec. 7th, 2023

So I’ve had this winter rain jacket since before Lower Decks came out that Lower Decks turned into some kind of away team jacket retroactively?

I mean seriously it really did, science blue, bright stripe, black top, all of it

or almost all of it

I finally gave in and made a lower decks combadge and um…

…it’s perfect, and I’m kinda mad about it.

I’m also pretty sure I figured out exactly how they made the Lower Decks-style combadges in Strange New Worlds, just because once you start printing it as a two-part object that fits together, well, if you’re familiar with 3D printing and its effects and how to minimise them where you want to and utilise them where you can, you get… exactly what it looks like on the actual show.

(Silk white printed at a particular weird angle you’ll find if you look for it, matte black printed flat on the plate for the frame, I used glossy and sanded because that’s what I had and it worked out, all slow and at minimum layer heights of course.)

So yeah that happened. Guess I’m back in Starfleet… ugh… again…

(more pics at the original thread on Mastodon)

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