Hugo base details

[gfish]

I just posted an Instructable detailing the process of making the Hugo bases.

Comments

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Man, that's really cool. I'd never heard of pepakura, for one thing.

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

You are a clever beast and that is super cool and OH MY GOD IS IT A GIANT RELIEF TO FINALLY POST THOSE AWESOME PHOTOS I bet it is.

[solarbird]

Honestly, the more I know about these things, the more I like them.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

If anyone's interested there's an article about how the actual rockets are made at the Hugo Awards site.

http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-trophies/making-hugos/

Pete Weston, the man who owned the company that makes them is a long-time fan himself and a really great guy.

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Yeurgh. Blender.

I like Pepakura, though. That's really hard to do with Solidworks. I'll need to play with that one.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

You can use one of the spares as a model rocket blast deflector plate!

[gfish.livejournal.com]

It's not a very fancy program, but it does one thing and it does it actually quite well. I don't regret paying for the full "designer" version at all.