What's on your workbench?

[Shahbahraz]

Thanks Paul, I also did this one last night.. apologies for the quality, (I opened a new bottle of superglue and spilled it all over the gun shield, which then needed filing). I tilted the print to get all the components into one print, and because I find printing barrels parallel to the build plate is problematic. The shield itself, though it's hard to see here because of the filing scratches, is perfectly smooth in all angles. So it's a matter of figuring out the print angle.



At least now I am consistently getting a completed print off the build plate. I can also see I am going to need a gallon of resin.. and that having all these weird and wonderful print files is a real temptation...

After all, if I can print off WW2 French APC and weird armoured cars used by Vichy and the Free French, then how long before I succumb to the temptation of buying a platoon of Goumiers or FFL?

[Paul]

Yup, i've been told that printing at an angle is always better unless you have small thin components that can just sit on the build plate. Even then you need to make the first layer slightly smaller across so that you can pop them off more easily.

[valleyboy]

Yup, i've been told that printing at an angle is always better unless you have small thin components that can just sit on the build plate. Even then you need to make the first layer slightly smaller across so that you can pop them off more easily.

This all sounds a bit complicated - you don't just shove a bit of paper in then?
Hmm can't see me buying one of those then

[Shahbahraz]

Once you get the hang of it, it's actually pretty simple. It's the software and slicing that needs attention. The physical process is just that, a process.

[RMD]

You have fashioned an 88 from the purest Green...

[Shahbahraz]

And an Indian Pattern Carrier, a Bofors, a couple of L35 tankettes, a Type 41 gun, three universal carriers, etc...

[FreddBloggs]

3 universal carriers
2L35 tankettes
And an 88 in a fetching green shade!

[Shahbahraz]

Keeps me out of mischief. That reminds me, I might have to order a couple of litres of resin before my current contract finishes. Would be terrible to have the time on my hands and no resin to do the devil's work.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Remember to pace yourself, and not drink it all at once!

[Shahbahraz]

But it's so nice. A humber scout car and the India Pattern Carrier are now done.