April Workbench 2021

[decapod]

This may take a while to get working...

EIV on left and EIII on right.
Printed nose down at about 65 degrees. Weirdly the leading edge is warped and droops down and that is where the supports were all the way along. The trailing edge is straight.

Trying a run now at 45 degrees with more supports on the wings - don't think I'll attempt the FK10 just yet.



Now using macro lens on phone - can see the layers - these are about 0.05mm (1/20 mm) - would probably vanish under a coat of paint.

The resin is tough, probably not quite as strong as Shapeways versatile but close, with the level of detail of shapeways fine detail.

[elffriend]

Hi, I always print with the tail down with a 70 degree angle to get best results but you do need to reduce the contact depth and size of the support top in your software. Also with the wing droop you can add some extra supports at a 40 degree angle on the underneath of the wing above the trailing edge to help with the wing droop. Another way I found was to increase the thickness of the supports on the outside of the wing or add extra supports to the outside support, if you see what I mean. I am now trying a printout and you can see the extra supports I have added to try to remove the wing droop.

Where did you get the stl from for the Fokker?

[Gangleader147]

Studio man cave got blitzed yesterday so hopefully get some productive time in there this month.

[decapod]

Hi, I always print with the tail down with a 70 degree angle to get best results but you do need to reduce the contact depth and size of the support top in your software. Also with the wing droop you can add some extra supports at a 40 degree angle on the underneath of the wing above the trailing edge to help with the wing droop. Another way I found was to increase the thickness of the supports on the outside of the wing or add extra supports to the outside support, if you see what I mean. I am now trying a printout and you can see the extra supports I have added to try to remove the wing droop.

Where did you get the stl from for the Fokker?

45 degrees was worse - ended up with swept wings !

Just so many supports when you do it tail down, especially as I want to do a quadriplane next

However - just pouring a bit of recently boiled water over the wings let me bend them straight - all good now, I'll paint them up and see how they look.

STL's? - I have a few to hand https://www.shapeways.com/shops/decapod

At the rate it prints it would take me a while to get through them.

[elffriend]

Lol, I never looked at your user name, I just wish we could buy some of your stl's to printout. I never tend to worry about the supports as they are easy to remove but as you say it's a different matter with a quadriplane. The hot water will sort it out but sometimes they bend back over time, I have had good results with extra supports on underside of wing to keep them straight as they print .

[Dak21]

Finally finished! Tamiya 1973 vintage Ki-84. Only used one decal, the running rabbit. Of course, since it is 48 years old, it is badly silvered. The rest of the markings are all airbrushed with hand cut masks. The image quality reduction hurts it a lot. There is a lot of detail that can’t be seen. You ca ant even see the rigging. I enjoyed building it, almost the entire time. It’s funny, as I was putting the final touches on it, I noticed what looked like red paint spilled all over. Of course, my blood pressure probably went through the roof. As I’m wondering where the heck it came from, I noticed the bloody cut on my finger. I ran for some wet paper towels, and it all came off fine. Then I checked to see how bad the cut was....

[malachi]

Looks great, Dave!

[Teaticket]

That's really great Dave!

[Hedeby]

Love the weathering/ wear and tear effects. Nice work Dave

[Flying Helmut]

Fantastic!

[flash]

Very smart Dave, great job.

[Jager]

Great work, Dave. Sorry you had to bleed for the cause (again), but that's modeling Hope it's not too bad a cut.

Home alone (until a ZOOM call with the sisters), so more decaling. Might have something to show this month (finally!).
Karl

[Stumptonian]

Amazing work, Dave.
Are you sure you haven't secretly found a shrinking machine and used on a 1:1 from the museum?

[Dak21]

Thanks everyone for the kind words. Much appreciated! I’m thinking about doing a 1/350 Shimakaze class destroyer next. Not sure yet.

[Jager]

Thanks everyone for the kind words. Much appreciated! I’m thinking about doing a 1/350 Shimakaze class destroyer next. Not sure yet.

Good scale for down on deck attacks.

Karl

[decapod]

Changed my print orientations angled 45 degrees in two dimensions
Worked pretty well to get a DH2, FE8 and Halb D2 in one hit.
(plus 3 aerosans)

[Hedeby]

Having a 3D printer must be brilliant...

[Willi]

This month I added a couple of more pieces of 1/56 scale Bolt Action Armor. A "Blitzkrieg Models" resin and metal M3 Lee (a re-creation of the 1943 Sahara - Humphrey Bogart - Lulubelle) and a plastic "Warlord/Italeri" Panzer IV (Ausf G) as the Afrika Corp. opponent.









Armor Faceoff.

[Von Scharf]

Outstanding, Willi !

[Flying Helmut]

Nice tanks!

[BobP]

Nice Willi. Nice reference to Bogart. Good movie with some not well know actors before they were big,

[Flying Helmut]

Nice Willi. Nice reference to Bogart. Good movie with some not well know actors before they were big,

Remade later with James Belushi - both films failed to appreciate that there were no American ground forces in the Western Desert (East of Tobruk) at that time (fall of Tobruk, June 1942) - American tanks didn't arrive in North Africa until November 1942, in the 'Torch' landings at the other end of northern Africa (over 1500 miles away!) the OTHER (Western) SIDE of Tobruk!!!!!

[Shadowcat]

Very nice tanks.

[Dak21]

Those are some cool tanks! You must need a huge area to play armor games at that scale.

[Jager]

Those are some cool tanks! You must need a huge area to play armor games at that scale.

One reason I'm not that into Bolt Action figures (despite owning a lot; painted by our own Shadowcat).
The game store I play at has tons of 28mm terrain for the tables; BA, WH AoS etc. So that's what I bought into to play up there.
If I had the time and space for terrain building, en masse, I would go 15mm. The game feels better with the increased (scale) space.
That said, these tanks are great. 28mm does give you a great size for really realistic painting; and these are right up there.
Karl

[Shadowcat]

Been gearing back up for Flames of War in 15mm myself but not sure I like the new rules. They are pushing tank wars rather then infantry fights. Same with Bolt Action to a point. Flames of War also streamlined the rules, stripped out all the HQ support stands from units, and transport for the most part also. Seem to be going to all plastic and are eliminating as many SKU's as they can. They are also shrinking units so they do not have to produce as many infantry to fill out a unit. All cost cutting issues for them as they convert over. Case in point is they put the same sprue in the 3rd and 4th edition starter set Open Fire vs Hit the beach. But now you have extra figs on the sprue as they removed command stands and cut some figs from the units (and got rid of the horrible large base Panzerschrek 4 man teams and went to small 2 figure bases instead. Also having issues for 10 buck sprues for a tank or gun that maybe cost 1 buck to produce. Their plastic tank prices are matching their metal/resin ones at a fraction of their cost to produce. Infantry while nice are not as detailed as metal were and have the mold stretch look. But quality across the gaming world has been getting worse (compare WoW planes vs WoG reprints years later) for the last 20 years as companies look to cut costs and increase profits.

[decapod]

This 3d print lark is not all that simple. It's taken me a week of tweeking but I think I've mastered it now - needed to rotate 45 degs on two axes and adjust a few settings.



Now to paint them to really see how smooth they are compared to shapeways.

[Gangleader147]

Been gearing back up for Flames of War in 15mm myself but not sure I like the new rules. They are pushing tank wars rather then infantry fights. Same with Bolt Action to a point. Flames of War also streamlined the rules, stripped out all the HQ support stands from units, and transport for the most part also. Seem to be going to all plastic and are eliminating as many SKU's as they can. They are also shrinking units so they do not have to produce as many infantry to fill out a unit. All cost cutting issues for them as they convert over. Case in point is they put the same sprue in the 3rd and 4th edition starter set Open Fire vs Hit the beach. But now you have extra figs on the sprue as they removed command stands and cut some figs from the units (and got rid of the horrible large base Panzerschrek 4 man teams and went to small 2 figure bases instead. Also having issues for 10 buck sprues for a tank or gun that maybe cost 1 buck to produce. Their plastic tank prices are matching their metal/resin ones at a fraction of their cost to produce. Infantry while nice are not as detailed as metal were and have the mold stretch look. But quality across the gaming world has been getting worse (compare WoW planes vs WoG reprints years later) for the last 20 years as companies look to cut costs and increase profits.

That’s why I preferred the Battlegroup sets, more of a combined arm approach.

[Gangleader147]

This 3d print lark is not all that simple. It's taken me a week of tweeking but I think I've mastered it now - needed to rotate 45 degs on two axes and adjust a few settings.



Now to paint them to really see how smooth they are compared to shapeways.

Too much technology for me, happy for others to print on my behalf

[Brak Morn]

This 3d print lark is not all that simple. It's taken me a week of tweeking but I think I've mastered it now - needed to rotate 45 degs on two axes and adjust a few settings.



Now to paint them to really see how smooth they are compared to shapeways.

Those look.....................fantastic! Nice work Paul.......

[elffriend]

This 3d print lark is not all that simple. It's taken me a week of tweeking but I think I've mastered it now - needed to rotate 45 degs on two axes and adjust a few settings.



Now to paint them to really see how smooth they are compared to shapeways.

Even when you think you have 3d printing mastered it comes back to bite you with some unexplained failures. I seem to spend more time printing out things now than I do painting but it is very rewarding when you get the finishing model in your hands.
They look really good and should paint up a treat.

[Flying Helmut]

Super stuff!

I look forward to seeing 'em with their clothes on!

[Gangleader147]

Super stuff!

I look forward to seeing 'em with their clothes on!