Enterprise XD Design

I’m continuing with making designs which tie in with my original Sci-fi book series, Operation Hourglass, and here’s the latest. When I made the list of what I wanted to make, right at the top of that list was emblems and badges for the HMS Repulse’s air-wing squadrons. So here’s the first of those, for 42nd Squadron, also known as the “Shortswords”

Flying the AF-42A Peregrine Airspace Superiority Fighter, the Shortswords are the Repulse’s primary fighter squadron, under the command of the ship’s deputy CAG, Lt. Cmdr Anitra Soriano. She’s a generational New Yorker, from both Irish and Italian ancestry, and is known for both her calculating and clinical approach to air combat, and for her volcanic temper. Indeed, that’s where she gained her callsign, “Landmine”, due to the fact that she will go off like one when her patience snaps. This is partially due to a lifetime of having to correct people who mis-spell her first name…

More squadron patches to come soon, and I’ve got a looooooooong list of tie-in designs I want to be making. In the meantime you can download all the currently released Operation Hourglass stories from Apple Books now.

Back into R&D mode today, and just managed to work out how to shrink the snaplock clip down to a much smaller and more compact size. This has possibilities, methinks… 🤔

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Christmas, of course, means one thing: Terry’s Chocolate Orange. Yes, it may be a hollowed-out shadow if its former greatness, but The Orange has always been, for me, one of the very few parts of the season I’ve actually looked forward to. So with that in mind, I wanted to make something that really celebrate it, and therefore I decided to add a dash of “Kawaii” to the whole thing.

So here’s the prototype for a 3D printed Chocolate Orange Holder! It’s a bit too big (it’s made to the dimensions of the old, bigger Orange) so the final one will be a little smaller, but hopefully should be available soon. And you won’t even have to hammer it violently on the floor to make it useable!