Re: BUILD THREAD Ckings 3-D Printed 1/38 scale TIE FIGHTER
Thanks guys for the kind words and your interest! I'm really sorry it taken me so long to update this thread but building these things as a "family man" certainly is a HUGE difference from how things used to be. Where did I find all that time!!! A huge thanks also goes out to Chris who's been VERY patient with me on this project, I know it's dragin out...
The wings was finished up some time ago and I finally ended up with reverse masking them. I never was able to to get a good result with blocking just the black.
Axlots: Thanks for the tip, but I already tried that with a very poor result. Turned out that the capillarity force actually worked against me sucking up the paint over the edge. This produced a very distorted look. In the end the only way to get a clean lines between black and grey was to let the black run all the way up to the edge of the struts. I know this is not the way it was done on the originals but it actually worked rather well. It's very hard to see that it was done this way. It creates a kind of shadow looking effect.
A closer look at the finished wings. The Grey are going to receive a dull coat a long with the rest of the hull.
On to the cockpit!
A new steering yoke was built out of the remains of the 3-D printed part and styrene sheets, fiberoptic strands, brass tubes and guitar strings. I tried to base it the best I could to what's seen on the set. This little bugger sure took it's sweet time since I must have broken it at least 3 times! My fingers shows the wonderful effect of to many close encounters with CA glue. Nasty stuff!
The Revell (Chris correct me if I'm wrong) pilot trying it out for size!
Hooking it up with some 0,25mm fibers
The fibers are all hidden inside.
Greene_gremlin: Thanks for all the info regarding 3-D modeling and printing. This medium is all new to me and so far I can't say that I'm all that impressed. Seems like a rather expensive procedure and IMO that finial parts are not uppto par with what we see on injection kits or resin poured garage kits. I also wonder what's more costly, hiring a model builder to scratch build a prototype or hiring a 3-D modeller to make a computer file. Then pay for Shapeway prints which then has to be shipped and be completed by a model builder. I certainly see a lot of potential but I still think there's a long way to go. Thanks again tough for your input, you clearly know a lot about this subject! It's certainly is the future of model building, no questions about that. I just don't think we're there yet. The price is still to high and the quality of the prints doesn't match the cost IMO.
Until next time!
Steve.
