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2026.06.04

I received some very interesting information from Daft_Ideas (aka. Grey Area) about the history of the available X-Bomber 3D models, and the people that were involved in making them:

Daft_Ideas created the model that Dan used as his template and which Nick Cass took further and developed as well.

I've summarised part of one of Daft's emails:

It was nice of Dan to credit me, and I feel proud that my simple model (I am in no way a designer!) started off this craze...well - there were two predecessors, on opposite ends of the scale; one by Dorian Sherratt who I fear may have passed away (his model was beautiful), and the simpler "benheu" version.

I found some links and now that I have a much better printer (my first prints were on an ANet A8!) I've decided to spend some time on it again; but since I can't go "Better" than Gary or Dan's version, I have only one choice.

I'm going bigger.
I hope to joint the body into as many parts as possible (currently looking at 16), and I think on my printer I can get a 75cm model (I was hoping for a round metre I'll be honest, but the biggest jointed part would be the neck at just over 40 cm, and my printer tops out at 35.

I included here on the site some screengrabs of Daft's current work on X-Bomber and Dai-X.
Hopefully, we'll be seeing some more.

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