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EMS Uses Surphaser 100HSX to Scan Guy Lombardo’s Vintage Tempo V Hydroplane

3D scanning can be used to help create replicas of many things: the first all-metal passenger airplane, artifacts from the 1500s, and even a famous pig. Industrial 3D scanning and printing…

Vigo Universal 3D Prints a 20-Foot Replica of the Stargate Portal as Ancient Egypt & High Tech Merge

Stargate for many around the world was a riveting sci-fi franchise that carried us through three movies before petering out a few years ago. It also translated into TV, games, and comics…

Gambody Launches Online Workshop for Painting 3D Printed Models

Thanks to 3D printing marketplaces like Gambody and—to some extent— MyMiniFactory, gamers from all around the world have been able to 3D print replica models of their favorite video game…

Generation 3D Takes on the Dream Hotel & Spa in Phuket, Pushing the Boundaries of 3D Printing

The Generation 3D team, as we’ve gotten to know them, is undeniably diverse in their undertaking of projects, versatile, and limitless in their enthusiasm for 3D printing. We’ve seen evidence…

17th Century Dutch Warship with 80 Guns Recreated in 3D Print with Materialise at the Helm

We often follow Materialise, the 3D printing industry leader from Belgium, as they have come to the rescue in numerous serious situations—most especially medical applications—providing surgeons with new ways to offer…

Wessex Archaeology 3D Scans and Prints Two Shipwrecks from Underwater Archaeological Sites in UK

There’s no denying that the value of 3D printing has grown immensely throughout a wide range of industries over time, but one field I personally feel isn’t alluded to enough…

Backface 3D Printing Wins Guinness World Record with Gigantic Replica of Jon Bentley

As the Guinness World Book of Records began to get more and more out there over the years with the business of breaking records, for the average layperson it began…

Get Some 3D You Time for Mother’s Day—It’ll Be Like They Never Left!

Some of us remember life ‘before kids.’ It was full of me time without begging anyone for a pardon or paying a babysitter gargantuan sums just so you could leave…

Palmyra’s Arch of Triumph Replica Unveiled in Trafalgar Square—Next, On to Dubai & New York

We won’t forget—and we will not be beaten. This is the attitude encouraged in the face of terrorism, with one of the greatest actions reinforcing these words being that of…

Dear Scarlett: You are so Beautiful—Especially as a Totally Normal 3D Printed Humanoid!

The glamor of Hollywood—and especially starlets—has forever been enticing. Their beauty and personal stories are fascinating to the world. And while some of us are content with the occasional read in the…

Naturalis Biodiversity Center: T. Rex to be Resurrected in Full Glory via Ultimaker 3D Printer

We all know what a Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur looks like: a big guy with bad posture, sharp fangy teeth, creepy little arms, thundering thighs. Your vision of him most likely entails the nightmarish…

Photographer Uses Drone to 3D Print Peruvian “Christ of the Pacific” Statue

When I hear the word “drone,” often my mind wanders to the technology’s military applications. I have to remind myself that a drone is a flying remote controlled machine or “unmanned…

3D Print Your Own Replica of the Simpsons’ House Thanks to Cults 3D

Fans of The Simpsons will recognize the family’s house immediately. The yellow house with the brown roof, reddish door, and attached garage has been seen in over 500 episodes since 1989….

3D Printing the President for Posterity: Mcor Shows the Smithsonian How it’s Really Done

As President Obama himself has lauded 3D printing as a positive technology that will indeed be a catalyst for change in manufacturing, certainly portraying him in that medium for posterity–amongst…

They’ve 3D Printed the Pope!

While 3D printing is responsible for changing so much of the world, throwing out tradition in favor of stronger, better, and more affordable products and processes–things have changed in other…

Portugal RepRapAlgarve Workshop Group Makes Fully 3D Printed Body To Scale

He’s here….(cue in the creepy Halloween music)…that’s right, folks–the moment we’ve been waiting for with excitement, anticipation, and even fear, has finally arrived. He’s a fully 3D printed body fabricated to…

Conical Spear Butt of Navan: Archaelogist’s 3D Printed Replica Shows Artifact Was Actually a Horn Mouthpiece

3D printing is transforming a long list of industrial sectors, and far more–but you’d still be amazed where it manages to ‘horn’ in. As the technology is lauded for all…

3D Printing Helped Deliver This Scratch Built RC Renault Truck Replica

You would think after writing about 3D printing for several years that I would develop a higher threshold for being impressed by the various ways that people use 3D printing….

Architects to Prepare Massive 3D Printed Replica of Moldova’s Capital City, Chișinău

Not only do we live in an incredibly progressive and changing world, we have multiple ways to check it out as it looks in real time, seeing the big picture…

3D Printed Venus de Milo: Has the Mystery Finally Been Solved?

The Venus de Milo, an enigma carried down through the ages, has given us plenty to speculate about. Considering the imagery and scenarios that have been woven regarding the direction…

3D Printed Full Size Replicas of Stonehenge, Atlantis, and More? One Engineer Has a Grand Plan

He is known for his 3D printed castle which made headlines all around the globe this past August. However, as we reported earlier this week, Andrey Rudenko is just beginning to…

See the Black-Footed Penguin in 3D Print as the Bruce Museum Celebrates National Penguin Day

Just the word ‘penguin’ brings to mind the good-natured waddle of those flightless birds that so easily elicit smiles. Penguins amuse us, fascinate us, and inspire us — and now, one…