After posting that, i had a little look around, and found this site to which you send and then order your model in 3d form, it can still be expensive but much cheaper than a 3d printer (unless it's a home made one ).
http://www.shapeways.com
I now wish i had some money for making some of my models.....

these Le Mans style cars are really cool, you keep on improving.
Cheers

Maybe they'll be cheaper if they come in kit form, here's a homemade printer.... awesome, i want one
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Y8WnSKvC8

I guess the plugin is useless for most people
It would sure be cool to have a 3d printer , but they're too pricy a 3d printer cand be from 15 000$ to 45 000$....

A little more work on it

After a long break....
I know it's not awefully original but i liked the excalibur from the B5 universe so i thought i'd make my own version

you don't have a crush on a teacher do you?

AWESOME

I'm pretty sure he used push pull on a rounded triangular shape or something similar to create a few componenets and then bunched and scaled them together in a coherent way.

I found this useful tutorial on this link, on scifi-meshes.com :
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/member-tutorials/49789-sketchup-tips-tricks-thread.html

download tutorial pictures in case of dead links.

It was about time Lyall to post something around here, and good work on the renders

I think a free & pro Google OS is around the corner, a simpler, faster and capable of running any program of every other OS(maybe just a dream). If Microsoft doesn't change its policies soon it will get wacked in the head .....not that it hasn't already been wacked a few times, but this time a big contusion may appear.

All hail the WISE and KIND DIDIER.

Is it called Laika by any chance?

If failures like this happpen so frequently on complex machines i wonder how many problems will rise when we'll make the first real starship...guess 10 years will stay on Earth and another ten in orbit.

Vray for SU does not have that capability

Hey Coen, quite a "lively" avatar you have there, not like the other guy's ..and of course

Edit: now he changed it...

LOL
I think it would have been better if the second pic was Withouterspoon.

My name is Marian, and i don't name components, groups, don't use shortcuts or layers

Oh pav, so the hundreds of millions if not billions of tons of CO2 emitted in the atmosphere had no effect on climate at all, that's just wishfull thinking.