Designed specifically to replace the overscale and poorly shaped part in the Airfix MkIa kit, my rendition if carefully assembled features a fully functional height adjustment mechanism. The kit depicts the early, all metal construction seat and consists of 16 individual printed parts.
Flugzeugwerke is what I called my Shapeways shop, specializing in 3D detail parts for 1/32 scale Wingnut Wings WWI airplane kits. And for awhile it was a great ride — I designed stuff, uploaded it, they printed and shipped and let me collect a little markup. Nothing lasts forever, though; Shapeways, for reasons of their own, enacted policies that made it less and less viable to create parts for this market. With the demise of Wingnut Wings it seemed my niche market would evaporate completely,
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