1/700 & 1/350 scale BH Cygnus builds

[psimon]

Wow psimon. So much ignorance displayed in so many words.

Don't be so hard on yourself. You probably get your facts (or lack there of) from Faux News.

Anyway, I can easily prove that all of what you just said is total bull****.

Actually you can't. Reciting false information from Faux and Rush is not proof. it's gibberish.

but my comment was simply meant to be a quick and comical response on a simple quote about "new world order" tin-foil hat nonsense. This isn't the place to get into a massive debate about it, as this is a thread about models. But I'm betting you won't just drop it here.

Spoken by a true Republican.. Start a political argument then bash others for talking politics. But I agree that this should stop and I give you the last word. You know you want it.

 

[psimon]

Has anyone heard back from Dave on the Bow armature patterns? My Cygnus is in the mail and I would love to get the acrylic cut and ready for assembly.

Nwerke, You mentioned something about using a product that emulates the copper effects of the tubing. Can you elaborate?

I was going to just dye my parts in black dye (to ensure I do not miss any coverage), give them a coat of gunmetal then weather using a light dusting of copper. I think I may also have an idea for strip LED lighting and will be using Photoshop to create a 'windows' pattern I mentioned in an earlier post. The windows (clear parts) will be greyscale and the lights will be filtered through a light yellow filter so the results will be grey when the lights are off and slightly yellow when lit just like in the movie.

 

[psimon]

My comment was itself tongue-in-cheek; I'm about as far from a conspiracy theorist as one can get. Shapeways is notorious for customer-service ups and downs; they can be very good but there are undeniably frustrating moments. Nature of the beast with the current technology, to some extent, but there is a corporate ethos playing a part too.

I was frustrated with SW at first... Telling me all the parts are printable and ready to go then when I place my order, 'sorry but we can't print these parts.' But after some back and forth, I was VERY pleased that they went against policy to try and get my parts printed at no extra costs. I kept watching those parts be in and out of production for several weeks so I think they went through a lot of tries till it finally worked.

 

[eimb1999]

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[32buds]

Please people,CALM DOWN AND GET THE POLITICS OUT OFF HERE! This is a forum about modelling. We're all hobbyists so lets talk about the models we're working on and keep things civil!
NOW, Psimon. With regards to the clear domes, why not give the inside of them a light coating of laquer mixed with a little yellow. Just enough to give it a tinge of colour. I think Tamiya still do a range of clear coloured acrylics. I bought transparent blue from a local model shop a while back to tint the engine bells on a kit I made. That turned out good.

 

[Nwerke]

Gentlemen please take the discussion to PMs. Better still count me in, I'm hella political and will be happy to go around forever as anyone who took the climate denialist side in our former OT thread on that topic can attest.

Please don't continue things here, no matter the temptation. The mods WILL step in before long if this continues.

 

[Nwerke]

psimon you are likely correct re the multiple tries and this is one example of how SW customer service can be good. An example of how they can be bad is that they often fail to capitalise on these efforts - if they *told us* how many attempts had been made, or why two near-identical parts generate different results, they'd spare a lot of ill-feeling.

The paint is an effects paint and locally made but equivalents are available at craft stores in most of the developed world. I'll dig up some example/links later on but basically they're metallic paints which you hit with ammonium chloride solution as they dry, or after. There are typically iron/rust, copper and bronze versions.

 

[mythshaker]

Nwerke,

I've kinda been waiting for a post from you describing a comm from Shapeways asking you to please remove your stuff, you're driving them nuts.

Any thought to making the fuel frames singles ala Dave, rather than the doubles?

I got an email from Shapeways saying their FUD printers are overloaded with Christmas stuff and asked if any my stuff was for Christmas as it's gonna be awhile. Tomorrow is their self imposed due date and only about 1/5 is done and another 1/5 hasn't even gotten to production yet. It'll be interesting to see if the WSF mandibles will ship before the FUD stuff that was ordered several days earlier.

 

[Nwerke]

LOL, I know rite?

They were singles originally, I made them doubles to maximise the cost saving under either the old or new pricing algorithm, I can't recall which. New I think, they're too low-density for it to have mattered under the old one. It's not that, it's that I resized some parts and squashed various tie rods below the minimum printable size. (Note that they *were* printable at the time, that was another rule change.) I thought I'd caught them all but apparently not.

I hope you like the mandibles, they're one of my favourite parts.

Just had another gigantic box arrive, with about five small parts. Looks like there's a floating sprue on the forward fuel manifold. I had to head to work but will check it out tonight if I get a chance (kid's school concert). I think part of it has failed to print, simply vanished into thin air. Wouldn't be the first time, it can happen if normals get messed up somehow. Fortunately it's just a simple tube.

 

[mythshaker]

You mean these two whiskers?



Have you, and Dave, worked out just how you're going to interconnect all that piping?

 

[psimon]

My 1/700 Cygnus parts arrived this morning (along with some Salzo Galactica parts). I havn't gone through the entire box yet (each part is individually bagged) but hope to have it all out and photographed for posting before the end of the weekend. So far the parts look AMAZING!!! I was worried about the 'bumpiness' of the parts but they are so tiny I can hardly see them even up close. Now I just need the bow pattern so I can start assembly.

 

[psimon]

I started unpacking my Cygnus model and so far only found one print error. Seems the Spine Underside has a nasty offset part way down the length. I downloaded the original STL file and the offset is not there so it looks like SW messed up. Otherwise I am very pleased with how cool this thing looks!

 

[32buds]

That's a nasty step on the lower spine. I would contact them and ask for a replacement. I had that piece made about three weeks ago(check my posts) and it was perfect.

 

[psimon]

That's a nasty step on the lower spine. I would contact them and ask for a replacement. I had that piece made about three weeks ago(check my posts) and it was perfect.

I sent them the pics including a screen print of the STL render proving it was an error on their side. Hopefully they resolve this quickly at no extra cost to me.

 

[mythshaker]

I think in all the what for's and whereas's they note that this can happen on long skinny things because the printers use dual extruders that meet in the middle during printing causing "small" errors. That looks like more than a small error to me.

 

[psimon]

Besides the lower spine being miss printed I see that Dave also forgot to upload the Antenna Light Box Covers between the Power Centers. I contacted him in the hopes he can upload those also. They do show up in the photos here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lazymodeler/15148625499/in/set-72157644653412223

So close ...

 

[32buds]

Antenna light box. Dave's shapeways) store states "Quantity required-5" .
Three on top(1 either side of the command tower and 1 mid-spine) and two underneath( 1 directly beneath the command tower and 1 mid-lower spine).
I downloaded these files quite a while back. I wouldn't have thought they would be gone from the site.

 

[psimon]

Antenna light box. Dave's shapeways) store states "Quantity required-5"

I have the 5 light boxes. What I don't see in his store is the 'scafolding' that goes over the two (top and bottom) light boxes between the power centers.

 

[psimon]

This is the part I am not seeing in Dave's store:

 

[Frankpr01]

32Buds: Do you still have that file? Can you share it with us?