Into the 3D Printing Rabbit Hole

[Stikpusher]

Stuart, if you were here nearby, I’d gift you a set of the tank crewmen. I imagine shipping rates from here to Wales are stupid expensive for this stuff.

I need to prime them up and see how they will look with some paint on them.

[Stuart]

I would imagine so Carlos - but I appreciate it. They look good though - I shall look forward to seeing them painted. What are you planning on using them on?

All this talk of tanks makes me want to pull an armour build out.

[Stikpusher]

I was thinking on one or two of the Sherman V’s in my stash, or perhaps the Achilles…

[Stuart]

The Achilles would be cool, certainly different.

[Stikpusher]

More goodies printed up… yesterday I did this batch of oxygen tanks and .50 cal.s… enough for a B-17. Unfortunately the barrels separated off the print plate for some reason and misprinted instead. But they are an easy one to print, so next batch of items.



Then today I did up test batch of machine guns, all of which turned out correct. The interesting one was this minigun



The file did not say what size or scale it was, but after printing it up at 100%, taking measurements of the print, getting the actual dimensions from online, and doing some math, it appears that this is scaled out to somewhere between 1/27 and 1/28 scale. Rather odd if you ask me. But I have now done a scale down to 1/48 for my next test print batch.

[keavdog]

Just need a 1/28 scale Jesse Ventura

[speedgraflex]

All I'm thinking is that it's time to rewatch PREDATOR. Nice still, John! And Carlos, WOW, man that is so nice printing work. Bravo!

[Stikpusher]

Or….

[Stuart]

Or Both!

I haven't seen T2 in years! Predator though, I watched a few weeks ago!

[Gary Brantley]

All I'm thinking is that it's time to rewatch PREDATOR. Nice still, John! And Carlos, WOW, man that is so nice printing work. Bravo!

It's always a good time to rewatch "Predator"! Fun fact: the mini-gun used in Predator and Terminator II was the same.