Firefox3D
Well-Known Member
Spent most of yesterday breaking the model into sections to be able to print successfully. Have printed about half, these are rough and ready pics of where I have got to with a 1/48th test print.
Realising for 1/48th small production I will have to get a master pro printed, the surface unevenness on what you can see is a fraction of a mm but still requires some work to get it perfect, black of course makes it look worse than it really is.
The co-polyester material does cause some weird surface artefacts that you don't get with PLA, however the parts are really strong and you can wet sand the surface. It feels like something between ABS and acrylic, and glues together brilliantly with EMA plastic weld.
Have yet to get prices, but have found a local-ish place that can do 0.016mm resolution in resin to cast from.
Printing wingtips now while working on finalising the engine section slice.
Jon
Missiles - I think they must have used some artistic licence with the missiles as they don't match anything I can find, the smallest Russian air-to-air missile is this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-60_(missile) but it is 2 meters long
The one being carried is pretty close to the correct scale size of about 1.2m long with the launch bay around 1.7m.
Realising for 1/48th small production I will have to get a master pro printed, the surface unevenness on what you can see is a fraction of a mm but still requires some work to get it perfect, black of course makes it look worse than it really is.
The co-polyester material does cause some weird surface artefacts that you don't get with PLA, however the parts are really strong and you can wet sand the surface. It feels like something between ABS and acrylic, and glues together brilliantly with EMA plastic weld.
Have yet to get prices, but have found a local-ish place that can do 0.016mm resolution in resin to cast from.
Printing wingtips now while working on finalising the engine section slice.
Jon
Missiles - I think they must have used some artistic licence with the missiles as they don't match anything I can find, the smallest Russian air-to-air missile is this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-60_(missile) but it is 2 meters long
The one being carried is pretty close to the correct scale size of about 1.2m long with the launch bay around 1.7m.
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