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And they are not limited to IRL things either, as is evidenced by FRAYDO voting for snoopy Anyway, MAKE W3DHUB GREAT AGAIN.....................AND BUILD A WALL AROUND IT AND MAKE THE TESTERS PAY FOR IT!

Should have probably told you guys about the man in my avatar. Willem Drees was pretty much our best prime minister of all time. He was in office from 1948 until 1958 and oversaw a bunch of key post-war developments: the reconstruction of our country (wederopbouw), the traumas of decolonisation, economic growth, the establishment of our welfare state, and the formation of the Benelux, OEEC, ECSC, EEC and Nato. He was a left-wing politician, but he strongly disagreed with the ''new'' left-wing ideas of the 1960s and renounced his membership of the party he used to lead (Dutch Labour Party/PVDA). One would wonder what he would have thought about the current trends in the even newer far-left and far-right politics. Besides, he has a great mustache.

The great Duke Leto Atreides!

All hail supreme leader Corbyn!

Pierre Elliot Trudeau. A man whom half of the country despised, and the other half adored. However, he was still more respected that his demagogue of a son Justin, whom coddles radical islamists, feminazis and uneducated stoners. I miss when our leaders had "balls". This was his response in an interview towards declaring marshal law against terrorism. Too bad that he turned the west against the east & the french against the english or he would have been our greatest PM. But, my relative put this turd in his place. The right, the honourable, Mr. Joesph Clark. It's wild how a debate that is over 35 years old is still touching on issues that to this day have not been rectified. We have fallen so far in western politics. After some elementary study these were the last men who actually represented their constituents. I remember all the stories I heard of "Honest Joe" doing what he believed was best for our country. He never said anything he didn't stalwartly believe, and you can see this in that debate. He came off as sheepish in comparison to the strong personality that Trudeau radiated. It was rather entertaining to see how much Trudeau blatantly copied and utilized his policies after such stalwart opposition to them. I enjoy how much the Liberal and NDP (socialist) candidates suck up to the areas of a large voting base such as Quebec, Ontario and the maritimes. The division caused by this man is still vividly real to this day. Out west, we have "Republic of Alberta" and "Let the eastern bastards freeze in the dark" on the back windows and bumpers of our pickup trucks. It pains me to see such disunity among my countrymen. A vocal, but growing minority are even speaking of how Alberta deserves a referendum much like Quebec received in 1980 and 1995.TL;DR The best Canadian politicians come from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario with the select few from Quebec. Then we get to Peter Lougheed, a premier who created a conservative dynasty that lasted just shy of half a century. This man was the beginning of what made us the richest province in this country. Then there is the true patriot and average joe that was Ralph Klein. The man was a folksy, high school dropout of modest means who lived in the same bungalow he purchased in his youth. When he became Premier, we had the largest deficit in the country and by the end of his tenure we were the richest. I still remember my centennial coin, and 400 dollar cheque which I spent buying The First Decade and my first computer. The man was a drunk,(& a loud mouth) but he represented his province dutifully, & he respected all it's hardworking members. A truly under appreciated and unknown man and all politicians could service us better if they took a page from Mr. Klein. Enough of my preaching, post your pics. Good choice of theme FRAYDONUB

Kane lives in death, I will use this image in some way or another all year round.

Now available on all £5 notes everywhere.

Then change your bloody avatar!

Fun was had yesterday. ...and video of it too...

The elders told of his return ...

Yeah I heard about that stuff. But I think my models are quite too small and detailed and would rather suffer from the procedure than actually benefit. I am also already quite happy with the results of the Ultimaker. The layer hight is set to 0.1 mm, which is quite fine already. Plus I've heard the procedure is actually not that good for your health, which wouldn't be beneficial if I would be mass producing these miniatures. Yes, the material I'm using is biodegradable. But so far I haven't noticed that my models melt away I guess if I would throw them in the garden, leaving them exposed to 'wind and weather', that wouldn't be beneficial. But so far, they look just fine sitting here on my desk. About the printing process: You either get a 3D model (from a game, download it somewhere etc), load it up with a so called slicer application (I'm using Cura, the standard from Ultimaker) which basically converts the vectors of the 3D model into the different layers, from bottom to the top, which will guide the print head. In this step you can tweak all kinds of settings, like the layer hight (the more layers, the more details), temperature, speed etc. and afterwards you export the data as a so called GCode to a SD card, put it in the printer, turn on the printer, select a model and wait a couple of hours until the model is finished. But. Not everything can be printed as you might imagine it. First of all models from games are barely printable out of the box. They are optimized for gaming (therefore have usually few polygons = your model will look edgy), the geometry isn't closed, normals are inverted, all kinds of problems. I figured out the only way to get proper results is to model everything from scratch, giving you full control over every detail. If something doesn't work in the printing process, you will know why it doesn't work. In general the printer works additive from bottom to the top. Going upwards up until a 45° angle gives you still nice results, but everything in between 45° and 5° just doesn't result in smooth surface areas. Printing additively also means you can't print stuff that's floating in the air. You could tell Cura to print so called support structures underneath otherwise floating objects. But you have to remove them manually afterwards which results in an unclean surface area as well. That's why I like to cut the models into different printable pieces and glue them back together afterwards. Moreover the slicing software works also as a kind of previsualization. You can actually see how your model will turn out. Here you can already see if certain details are too small or if they clump together, if they are streched somehow etc. Which means now it's back again to your 3D modeling program to work on those details again. So it's a back and forth until you're happy with this previsualization and actually start printing. And normally you will see a couple of details you are still not happy with only after you hold the printed model in your hand. I mean In the end it's molten plastic, it behaves still a bit different than the software predicts. That means it's a constant loop of rapid prototyping until you are finally happy with your model. Let's use the Construction Yard as an example. Step 01: Decide on a model you want to make. Step 02: Gather as much as possible reference materials. Step 03: Modeling. Keep in mind that floating stuff isn't possible. And if you don't want to use support structures, you need to disassamble those critical areas, such as the crane. Step 04: Previsualize in Cura. See critical areas, go back to your 3D software, work on those areas. Repeat until you are happy. Step 05: Export GCode, print this thing, wait a couple of hours and hope everything turns out fine. Step 06: Glue the parts back together.