Here’s some welcome news from the Shapeways blog for people living in the United States. An announcement that they started shipping locally in the United States from the city of New York. I guess that means that they already have a set of 3D printers there to print out your 3D models The benefit of this is that if you are living in the United States and order to have your 3D model printed out at Shapeways you don’t have to pay import duties and extra shipment charges charges.

Been doing some research lately on the internet and I’ve realized that one can easily jump right into the garage kit business without any sculpting skills. Where you can make your own model kits for sale or personal use using the currently available technologies and services. Definitely you’d need drawing, spatial relation skills as well as a fertile imagination. How is this possible? Well by means of outsourced 3D printing services available right now and a little design skill on your part (well you can outsource that too if you like)

Just happened to be around a school supply shop yesterday and saw these cheap stencils being sold for less than a dollar each. Right then and there I decided to pick 3 of them up. Was hoping to use this for panel lining with the DIY panel scribing tool that I made on future model kits or scratch builds. Not sure however if they are going to work.

Happy Father’s Day to All Dad’s and would-be Dad’s around the world. May the One God continuously Bless us and Guide us in our task of being stewards of our respective families.