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Syfy Channel stuff!

Hey guys, this week I thought I'd mention another cool place to get free models, similar to the NASA one I did a few weeks ago.  This time its a profile on Thingiverse, but as far as I can tell it is the official page for the TV channel SYFY.  They have published a load of models from some of their more popular shows and it is definitely worth checking out...


Some noteworthy shows that have sprung out of SYFY include;

 Killjoys
Killjoys follows a trio of hard-living bounty hunters – Dutch, John, and D'avin. Working for the Reclamation Apprehension Coalition (RAC), they work in a four planet-and-moon system known as the Quad. Taking on warrants to apprehend people or property, RAC Agents are given high authority by their agency. As part of their job, they swear to remain neutral in conflicts and owe no allegiance to any system, government, or other organizations. With their pasts coming back to haunt them, the trio will have to work hard to keep themselves, and their friends, alive.
(Picture from the SYFY Thingiverse page)

Dark Matter
A group of six people awaken in stasis pods with amnesia aboard a starship called the Raza. They have no memories of their identities or their lives before awakening, so they assume the names One through Six, in the order in which they left stasis. They stabilize their vessel and set about trying to determine who they are and what happened to them.
(Picture from the SYFY Thingiverse page)

And probably most popular - The Expanse
Two hundred years in the future, in a fully colonized Solar System, police detective Josephus Miller, born on Ceres in the asteroid belt, is assigned to find a missing young woman, Juliette "Julie" Andromeda Mao. James Holden, the Executive Officer of the ice hauler Canterbury, is involved in a tragic incident that threatens to destabilize the uneasy peace between Earth, Mars and the Belt. On Earth, Chrisjen Avasarala, a United Nations executive, works to prevent war between Earth and Mars by any means necessary. Soon, the three find out that the missing woman and the ice hauler's fate are part of a vast conspiracy that threatens all humanity.
(Picture from the SYFY Thingiverse page)

The SYFY thingiverse page has models from all of these shows plus a few more that I haven't seen, for example, 12 Monkeys.


As I am a big fan of The Expanse (I am eagerly awaiting season 3) I decided to print out the Rocinante which is the ship most of the action takes place on with the main characters.




It is by no means a perfect print, however it was one of the first things I printed back in September last year when I got my little Cetus.  Theres a fair amount of z-banding and blobbing (look for a commonly encountered issues blog coming soon) but since printing this model I feel I have really dialed in the settings as is shown on one of my more recent prints such as the 28mm scale Marauder;


So if you're a fan of scifi shows, or any of the shows that the SYFY channel have brought us recently, go check out their Thingiverse page and print some cool models!

See you all next week.

Troez.





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