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Steve Wellman
Ellenton, Florida
“I got a Dremel Digilab 3D20 printer as a gift,” Steve says. “After numerous failures, I was able to get my computer and the 3D printer to talk to each other to print this Curiosity Mars rover. It has artistic license, so it is not exactly accurate.” He painted the robot explorer with Model Master, Floquil, and Alclad II colors, and weathered with pastels and powders. “I believe there will be more and more 3D-printed models presented at shows and in magazines,” he says. “It was time consuming. Printing the parts took close to 50 hours. Then there is creating the detail from wire, sheet plastic, and raiding the spare parts box. Never throw anything away if you are a model builder.”