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A few nice cnc China turned parts images I found:

DC Universe Classics Wave 15 – Validus Wave

Image by fengschwing
Another wave complete. I told myself I was only going to cherry pick this wave and, surprise, surprise, I ended up getting every damn figure. I think this is also the first wave where I have all the variants too.
I knew I was definitely going to get Jack Knight (Starman is one of my all time faves) and Martian Manhunter is a must have, but I thought all the others were fairly uninteresting. Yeah, right! My daughter persuaded me to get Raven as she’s her favourite on the Teen Titans cartoon and, besides, I needed to finish that team off. Sinestro Bats is, admittedly, very cool and became kind of expensive in the UK so when I saw him going for the usual price in Forbidden Planet London, I had to snag him, after that, the ball started rolling I guess.
This is also the first wave where I’ve got over my ‘need’ to get every figure MOC, ‘regular’ Martian Manhunter and Ted Knight Starman were bought from eBay loose.
All in all, it’s actually a solid wave, Validus is an imposing beast of a CnC, there are some odd choices in there but even ‘the one with the stand’, Golden Pharaoh ends up being a fun figure with plenty of interesting features.
I still don’t think the world needs a Jemm action figure though…

There’s a real sense of closure with DCUC for me now, I’m closing in on an almost full collection and as the newer figures are going up in price and no longer offering CnC parts, I feel I’ll be done with it soon. It’s actually not a bad feeling, it will be nice to pursue something else for a change and not have to be so ‘must collect them all’ about something.
Or will I?

Catwalk example shopdrawing

Image by Caliper Studio
Designed for a multimedia design firm, this blackened steel catwalk connects a mezzanine to a conference room. The catwalk includes cast glass lenses imbedded in the floor reminiscent of the cast iron sidewalk grates popular in lower Manhattan at the turn of the century. The China laser cut components were detailed in solidworks to fit together like a kit-of-parts that was assembled and installed over a weekend.