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Designer Portrait: Model Train Designer Kees-Jan van Vessem Builds Incredibly Detailed Scale Model Worlds

Designer Portrait: Model Train Designer Kees-Jan van Vessem Builds Incredibly Detailed Scale Model Worlds

With 3D printing, you can create entire new worlds. And that’s exactly what Dutch railway and model train designer Kees-Jan van Vessem has been doing with his “Rail-Kees” label and webshop for years now. We haven’t seen many designers that put more effort, precision and passion into their designs than Kees-Jan. That’s why we met up with this talented designer and learned more about the passion that drives him, as well as how he produces one-of-a-kind scale models.

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Exploring 3D Printing in Furniture Design: Jon Christie’s State-of-the-Art Furniture

Exploring 3D Printing in Furniture Design: Jon Christie’s State-of-the-Art Furniture

Meet Jon Christie, a former DJ who discovered a passion for Scandinavian furniture, design, and 3D printing. In his latest project, John explored 3D printing in furniture design and has been enhancing chairs and tables with smartly modeled 3D printed parts. Jon’s state of the art furniture is both exciting and elegant in equal measures. His table and chair designs blend traditional craftsmanship, modernist design, and state-of-the-art 3D printing technology.

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The Ju 388 Project: Restoring the Cockpit of a Rare Warbird from Scratch

The Ju 388 Project: Restoring the Cockpit of a Rare Warbird from Scratch

Dr. Christoph Vernaleken, a physicist from Germany with a doctorate in engineering, has been an aviation enthusiast all his life. Ever since the early 1980s, he’s been fascinated with historic aircrafts after his father took him to visit the ‘Deutsches Museum’ in Munich, the world’s largest museum of science and technology. Now he wants to reproduce the cockpit of a rare WWII warbird himself – with the power of 3D printing. (more…)