A long time Adam (PuzzleMaster42) was having trouble getting some parts 3D printed and asked me to print them at the TechShop for him. There was a misprint, and they came out blue instead of white. Long story short (see the building thread here for the details) it is finally complete:

The blue is so pretty I couldn't bear to cover it all over with stickers, so I decided to cut outline shapes. And I wanted to stick with the blue theme, so I stickered it with six different shades of blue.


Scrambled:

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Why the name Blue Thunder? After the 1984 movie of that name, which is has "Blue" in the name and was about a Helicopter

Dave

Very nice. Cool name.

Thomas

This is incredibly cool. I'm sur ethe shades can be difficult to determine too. Well done

It's good to see that you were unique with this puzzle, and didn't just give it a normal color scheme.

Very nice!

I hate saying stuff like this, but that is more art then a puzzle.

It really is beautiful.

True, but worth it. I almost chose four blues, white and black, but there was something about "all blue" that felt better, even if can be subtle. I'll have a production version soon enough if I want standard colors

Dave

Looks very Cool Dave, the blues look very nice

Very, very cool.

Helicopter icon cube!!!

Very nice color scheme, I was hoping to see some chrome blue but it still looks great.

Fixed =)

Now we need a set of 3x3x3's that is a rainbow Icon cubes, a red icon, orange icon, yellow icon Etc. ^.^

Or.... More Helicopters =)

A shape variant of it looking like a real helicopter would be nice.

Amazing-ful use of spare parts, and though its already been existant for awhile, it's still a phenomal puzzle. (And I'd bet VERY expensive too.)

Beautiful puzzle Dave!

realy nice

That's really beautiful and it looks very nice scrambled.

Wow soooooo beautiful!



I think you can consider using some tiny symbols for easier recognition (like the blind man's cube) if you have problems matching the shades, but it may be difficult to make good looking ones.

Remember the Rubik's Icon? The entirely grey-scale cube was colored so for just the purpose of making it harder. Having symbols for solving purposes would be worth it to make the beauty of the puzzle to be ruined, or at least in my opinion.

I really think it is pretty, but that'd be a nightmare for me. I can't solve a normal helicopter cube, plus I'm colorblind! I honestly can't tell the difference between the 2 lighter shades or blue in that picture.
I guess it's a good thing you own it not me.

This looks really good, but I would have probably made in contrasting, by using different shades of orange.

I like the colors, just as long as im not the one solving it.
That would be a headache.

Well, I can't either and there's nothing wrong with my vision except being near-sighted.

*drool*

That is one seriously good-looking Helicopter. I'm glad you stickered it with blues, instead of a standard color scheme. I might photoshop up a standard-color version just to see what it'd look like in comparison.

work of art