Fantasy gladiatorial arena.

[Damien]

beefcake, once you finish with the gladiators you have to (pretty please) do a Jason and the Argonauts (skeletons scene) with this terrain, it will be awesome!


Damien

[Doomhippie]

My wife gave me the Spartacus seires for my birthday so now I can watch it both on DVD and on the forum. 
I'm really gonna enjoy this...

[YPU]

Really looking forwards to where this is going. Gladiator combat gives a good basis and then making it fantasy allows you a huge range of further options.

[jthomlin]

WOW!! I had no idea this service was available!! 

Thanks. I wonder what the postage to Oz is like?

I've used Ponoko 3D services and been fairly happy with the results, however unless you know someone in the US or Canada who can trans-ship for you, postage is about $90 as they only use 'get there tomorrow, tracked every two feet' courier. 

I used them because they didn't have an up-front handling fee like Shapeways, which means you don't pay a fortune if you have a lot of small items.

Sadly, Ponoko have just announced that from Feb the 18th, there will be a $4 per item minimum to more accurately represent the handling costs of each item.   

You can minimise the this cost by connecting all the things you want printed with a 'sprue' just like a plastic kit, so it only counts as one object. But that's more work and you have to pay the cost of the extra material, which can be significant if the volume of your items is similar to that of the 'sprue'.

Now that the handling costs are similar, I will probably go with Shapeways next time as their postage is significantly cheaper to OZ (~$20).

Cheers!
Joe Thomlinson

[Furt]

Isn't their a Ponoko in New Zealand? That should reduce shipping.

[beefcake]

Yes, there is a ponoko in nz. That's who I Order through.
http://www.ponoko.com/mingle-and-share/shipping-faqs-for-designers

Looks to be not too bad for oz from nz

[jthomlin]

Isn't their a Ponoko in New Zealand? That should reduce shipping.

Yes there is, but they didn't do 3D printing when I last looked in December.

Cheers!
Joe Thomlinson