Grunticus

At one point in time out of the Luftwaffe's 128 Eurofighters, 4, yes four, were operational. The reasons were various, from no spares to an uncertified bolt to an expired license, or because three planets aligned on a Tuesday. Could Europe do what the US and UK did with building their armed forces quickly after the start of WW2? I hope.....when and if the **** hits the fan again. How complacent and naïve have we been, for decades...

Well said. The decision-making process for our defenses suck, all over Europe. It is really mind-boggling, and a huge waste of resources in a time when we need swift and decisive well thought-over action to get us back to where we were pre-2989.

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John, I truly don´t mean this in a condescending way, but why are you so hung-up on those decals? There are a myriad of 1/32 AD-6 / A-1H decals available. If you really want an A-1E that much you can buy AD-6 decals an construct the plane you envision from there? Or is it a very exotic one you want?

That is an amazing looking Dutch Lynx Rob, well done! Marine Luchtvaart Dienst is my favorite branch. Now when is that 1/32 S2F-1 Tracker coming? Or P2V-5? I can dream.

Great start, and following. I have this one in my stash. Very nice cockpit!

That looks truly awesome!

Apparently this setting makes the Silhouette lift the blade and then re-postiton it before cutting a sharp corner. This could improve results when cutting very small serial numbers or stencils. I am going to try this out and see how it affects cuts. I found this on Britmodeller. https://3dcuts.com/silhouette-line-segment-overcut-tutorial

Yes, got mine this week.

It arrived today. What a spectacularly detailed kit..

Hi Alan,yes the higher resolution ones are resin printers and not extrudion type. The price you pay is lot messier workflow than with filament. 'The best' gets you 5 different answers from 10 users. I suggest to first set a goal of what you want to print (and how big), and go from there. I found in my research that there are pros and cons to any printer. Read real reviews but be careful there's a lot of superficial ones that do not go in-depth or try all the options, and echo-chambers. Elegoo and Anycubic seem to get good marks for 1/32 type of stuff printing, and both have several models available. So far I like my Saturn 4 Ultra 16k, except for one thing: the printing buildplate is a pain in the a** to clean, I mean really.

Thanks so much for taking the time for this Dave. Will do, and report the results here.

Decals are included.

Mike, I paid € 182,90 including shipping. It's my all-time favorite prop pane, I just had to buy it.

I had some time to do some more printing this weekend. One of Elegoo (plus Anycubic's?) standout features is that you can do a calibration-print printing two, four, six, or eight items simultaneously for which you can set the exposure times individually. Normally you would use a calibration file STL for that, usually a small print with various small detail. The one that comes out best gives you the exposure time you should use, for that resin, in that ambience. They are different for every user / setup and not universal for every user. I decided to use my own design (slightly refined) for this calibration print. I followed up Tim's advice and bought regular resin to use this time. For the ABS resin I used before, 2.1 to 2.3 seconds seemed like a good exposure time (@0.050 layer thickness). For this test I deceased the times because the room is quite hot now. I set a range from 1.90 seconds to 2.2 seconds, with 0.5 second steps. All eight prints failed... Oh boy...the 2.2 second one was best, but not good enough. For a new calibration I can do two things: decrease the print resolution from 0.050 to 0,025, or leave it at 0.050 and increase the exposure time, starting at 2.1, going up to 2.45 for number eight. @BiggTim@Dave Roof@LSP_Kevin If you guys can give any short insight what is the best route, please chime in. I would appreciate it. I also now have time to subdue the rivets a bit more as they are slightly too pronounced now. Iĺl try 0.04mm by 0.04mm ones next time (0.075 by 0.05 in the photos). Oh, and don´t bother getting the Elegoo Mars air purifier. The room stinks more with it on that with it off. I think the carbon filter in it is not effective enough and the forced air displacement makes it stink more in the room. I sent it back. Cheers, Leon