My son has played hockey since he was four years old. I know that sounds a bit young, and many people have questioned my sanity. But they do not know my son.
Our family has enjoyed hockey for a long time. My wife and I were married in March and for our honeymoon we drove to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada so that we could watch the Manitoba Moose play. We both looked young for our age and were stopped at the border for questioning because I assume they thought we were teenagers running away from home. They eventually let us in, and we enjoyed the brisk spring of Winnipeg, and I was able to attend my first hockey game.
Fast forward a few years, ten or so, we welcomed our son into the world, and since he was born at the beginning of hockey season, this little guy grew up at the rink. He watched the games, gave fist bumps to the players, and on Star Wars night we won the costume contest because he went as baby Yoda before that was a thing.
When he began to walk he picked up a mini hockey stick and never let go. Then one day I was letting him walk as the hockey players were going back onto the ice, and to my surprise he was following them. He had one foot over the the step ready to get on the ice. He was only a year old.
He wanted to skate. He wore hockey gloves everywhere he went. He always had a hockey stick. Our living room had mini hockey goals as permanent furniture. And once he had us all together with sticks he would get his big brothers old pads and his baseball mitt and he played goalie. Before his second birthday we enrolled him in learn to skate lessons, and have spent the better part of the weeks since sitting at an ice rink.
Fast forward a few more years, he is now playing on a select 12u team and we are preparing to go out of town for a tournament…well we have four out of town tournaments this year. And he is playing in goal.
My last post was of a figurine of a 3d scan. This is an adaptation of the Dummy 13 action figure.
I scanned his leg pads, his blocker, and his glove. And I took the head from the scan for the figurine and was able to fuse it to the neck coupler of the Dummy 13 model. Then I realized that the regular Dummy 13 was not “buff” enough to look like a hockey goalie, so I was able to find a thicker chest piece, and also some shoulder pads.
All these parts can be found on Printables.com when you search for Dummy 13, which is an offshoot of the original action figure model Lucky 13. (Dummy 13 has better couplers in my opinion.)
The original model did not quite move like a goalie though. The figure could not go into the butterfly position properly and left the five hole completely exposed. So I then had to figure out a way to put a ball joint into the knee area.
Granted this is not how goalies actually move, it looked better.
The next problem I faced was that the hip joints were too tight. And I laughed at this because knees and hips are the joints you hear about goalies having trouble with. I was able to find a wider hip joint piece and it worked great.
So after messing around for a year. I now have a pretty functional Albert-in-goal action figure!
If you would like one of your very own send me a message. The one in the pictures is available. And a fun twist, his jersey number is #13!
The best thing about 3d printing is that it is really possible to make the ideas in your mind become a reality.
Jared Warner
pastor@jwquaker.com
W3-Designs 
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