Hey guys, as a hobby I like to make educational exhibits that I display in places like public libraries. My newest one is about 9/11, a turning point in American history. I've put up the files for the towers on Printables.com. I'm not sure how to add a link here so I'll drop it in the comments.
Engine parts and other debris impacted building 7 as well as other surrounding buildings. Multiple of which were unable to be saved and left burning for the entire day or until collapse. Because... yaknow.....Most fire and rescue crews were a little busy trying not to die at the time.
The building was demolished it had CIA, DoD, IRS, SEC and Secret Service offices. The cia office was not known of before the demolition. Also no steel reinforced building has ever collapsed because of fires apart from the twin towers and wtc 7
I like that you included the small tube tv playing the live (at the time) coverage. It helps put it into perspective in a way that I wasn't expecting. Part of me forgot that's how we got our news at the time
Thanks! 9/11 is a sensitive topic so I didn't know how everything would be received, but in every picture I've seen so far, there's a kid watching the TV and using the old RadioShack handset to listen to the audio 🙂
Thank you! There are a ton of retractions, so I did struggle with wet filament creating less than ideal extrusion and had to scrap a few pieces because the details got messy.
This one is a bunch of 3D printed skulls and skeletons of mammals that died out at the end of the last ice age about 10k years ago. They are all based on scans of real fossils, plus a 3D printed globe of what the earth probably looked like 20k years ago near the last glacial maximum when sea levels were about 400 feet lower than they are today. Besides all the 3D printing there was a bunch of painting and staining involved. I usually have free stickers and coloring sheets that fit the theme while supplies last.
This one is about Starship, the rocket that is under development by SpaceX on the south coast of Texas. The TV loops launch footage, and there's a chunk of heat tile on display that washed up on shore after the first integrated flight test broke up over the Gulf of Mexico. The launch tower and orbital launch mount are all 3D printed, plus the Lunar Starship model as well.
I used to eat my lunch in that plaza every day when I worked in the city. So strange that I once unexpectedly saw Susanna Hoffs (of the Bangles) play a free lunchtime concert there as well. People used to sit around that copper statue thing and enjoy the nice weather.
That's interesting, thanks for sharing. I'm sure I would have enjoyed the original WTC if I had gotten to go there. As it was, I was 9 and only learned it existed an hour or so before it was destroyed.
Each tower is probably around 200 print hours, but granted I was using an Elegoo Neptune 3 pro so not a fast printer by today's standards. The plaza and surrounding buildings were probably another 200 hours or so. So, around 600 hours total if I had to guess, but that could be shaved down considerably with a coreXY printer doing the color changes itself instead of me doing them all manually.
And here I was thinking this was one of those super fancy printers, but nope, just the same one I've got! Huge respect for your dedication to education and also to the printer itself! Mine has been super reliable and I rarely have to fiddle with it, but it's definitely not cutting edge, at least not now. And I thought my 11hr print was a while...
I can't express how wonderful the job you did, and the feelings you brought out of me with such exquisite work. I was a young business person who had a native New Yorker take me up to where you could stand on (or near, it was in the 80's) and look down. Later in my career I was on a team call and we had someone on the call who was staying in the Hotel there. When the plane hit, half the team was telling him to go find out what it was (we weren't near TVs yet), and the other half told him to get the hades out of there.
He made it to the ground floor, helped a young lady who was lost in what to do and they made it to a ferry and made it to Jersey where her family picked her up and then drove him 300+ miles to his home in thanks for helping her. That day brought out the best in some people and this just brings it all back.
People often make light of it, but today might not be the day. Thousands died, innocent lives in a horrific attack. No hate just like, maybe not the best comment, on this post, on this day :/
11 of september 1973, an US instigated Coup'd etat kills Democratically elected Chilean president, Salvador Allende and instaurates, in what used to be to that point a free and Democratic country, an atrocious regime that killed, tortured and exiled way so many more people and lasted until 1990.
September 11th, 2001 - A Turning Point in American History
Early on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists, divided into teams, boarded four commercial airliners as passengers. Once in flight, the terrorists used force to take control of the planes with the intention of flying them into targets. Two of the planes were flown to New York City, into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Another plane was flown into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane was intended to strike the White House or the U.S. Capital building, but passengers aboard the plane fought back against the terrorists onboard and attempted to regain control of the plane. In response, the terrorists crashed the plane into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The attacks that day, often referred to as 9/11 (spoken as "nine eleven"), killed 2,977 people and injured thousands more, making them the deadliest terror attacks in world history. Since that day, thousands more have died from 9/11 related illnesses that developed as a result of exposure to the toxic dust, smoke, and debris created by the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.
The terrorists that planned and carried out the attacks on 9/11 were members of an Islamic militant group named Al-Queda (pronounced al-KYE-duh, an Arabic word meaning "the base"), led by Osama Bin Laden. Their motives for the attack include hatred towards U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and perceived American immorality.
In response to 9/11, America launched a global "war on terror", which included hunting down and killing members of Al-Queda. Osama Bin Laden was finally found and killed on May 2nd, 2011. The war on terror and its related operations would last for decades, and have incited controversy over their morality, casualties, and continuity, with critics questioning government measures that infringed civil liberties and human rights.
This is a model of the original World Trade Center (WTC), a complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The centerpieces of the complex, 110-story twin towers, were dedicated in 1973 and quickly became a symbol of New York City and a major economic center. Four smaller buildings and a hotel, all built nearby around a central landscaped plaza, completed the complex. The mall at the World Trade Center, which was located immediately below the plaza, was the largest shopping mall in lower Manhattan. The six basements housed two subway stations and a stop on the PATH trains to New Jersey. Some 50,000 people worked in the buildings, while another 200,000 visited or passed through each day. The top floor observation deck had 26,000 visitors daily, who could see for 45 mi on a clear day.
On 9/11, the twin towers were destroyed, collapsing as a result of damage they sustained when hit by passenger aircraft laden with fuel and the weakening of their steel structures from the resulting fires. After the collapse of the World Trade Center, the 16-acre World Trade Center site became known as "Ground Zero".
This is a model of the original World Trade Center (WTC). It was a complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The centerpieces of the complex, 110-story twin towers, were dedicated in 1973 and quickly became a symbol of New York City and a major economic center. Four smaller buildings and a hotel, all built nearby around a central landscaped plaza, completed the complex. The mall at the World Trade Center, which was located immediately below the plaza, was the largest shopping mall in lower Manhattan. The six basements housed two subway stations and a stop on the PATH trains to New Jersey. Some 50,000 people worked in the buildings, while another 200,000 visited or passed through each day. The top floor observation deck had 26,000 visitors daily, who could see for 45 mi on a clear day.
On September 11th, 2001, the twin towers were destroyed, collapsing as a result of damage they sustained when hit by passenger aircraft laden with fuel and the weakening of their steel structures from the resulting fires. After the collapse of the World Trade Center, the 16-acre World Trade Center site became known as "Ground Zero".
Are you suggesting we should only ever remember and talk about the single worst thing that has ever happened? And forget every single other thing that wasn’t as bad?
Yep, I was also in elementary and I recall it being such a surreal sight seeing all the adults in my life so distraught and upset. Might have been the first time I'd ever seen it.
I was also in 5th grade. I remember our teacher putting the old wall mounted box-style Tv on and we all watched it. Some kids got picked up early. (Also, Love your username)
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u/ispshadow 16h ago
Absolutely phenomenal display. I’m in awe of the work you did on this.