meshy.ai

Another “free” software program. And this one, I predict, will change modelling hobbies and businesses forever.

I read about meshy.ai on the “Ships of Scale” website a few days ago. Since I am planning to build a model of an eighteenth century 74 gun ship from scratch, I have been thinking about how to make the figurehead, and the carved decorations on the stern.

In my furniture making days I did get into wood carving…. lions paw table feet and decorative table edges, and discovered that wood carving is very time consuming, and not entirely satisfying. I still have some excellent Swiss and British carving chisels.

And HMS Bellerophon did have a figurehead, of a Greek hero warrior named Bellerophon. Affectionately renamed “Billy Ruffian” by the ship’s 600 crew.

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I was in a similar situation to this a few years ago, and WordPress did increase my storage limit to 20gB, which allowed me to continue for those years. However that favour has now ceased and the 13gB has been reimposed.

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