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Having grand memories of my pops really loving the BPD and only having a balsa and tissue model to represent it in a large scale model.

IIRC,I think it may have been walnut scale or larger.......

In any event a new tool BPD is most welcome and this one may have to be a must have.

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well thanks you all - that is really quite a reception :)

 

I will do everything I can to make it happen - rest assured

 

5 hours ago, JayW said:

-  What will you do to the LG struts to make them robust enough?  Is that not a problem at 1/32 as well as 1/18?

 

 

 

You got me there Jay, but I have a cunning plan from the professor of cunning at cunning university for that :)

 

2 hours ago, thierry laurent said:

Wow ! That turret is incredible!!! 👏

1/18th is impressive but this will ask ages to print parts. 1/32th would be probably more attractive and you can also consider 1/24th to go with the existing Spitfires, Hurricane, Mosquito and Typhoons.

 

 

Thanks Thierry - it is in 1/32 so that's the first problem solved :)

 

 

2 hours ago, europapete said:

Print and scale to order?

 

 

Interesting, that is of course possible and a 1/24 one would be.... well.... epic

 

back to the gear bays for me...

 

Peter

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13 hours ago, airscale said:

 

 

Print time - All the parts for now are printed at the lowest, but fastest quality @ 60 micron layers, I usually print in 22 microns for my AM parts - but this speeds up the prints - even then, on 60 microns it takes about 9 hours to do the wing parts so each kit will take days to print at the proper resolution

 

 

 

Wow - that's an amazing and ambitious project.  The prototype is impressively advanced if you've only been working for a month!  Regarding print time (especially in light of the likely demand for this kit), I wonder if it wouldn't be better to complete the prototyping and 3D design on your personal printer and then find an commercial shop with higher-end equipment to produce the parts in volume at high resolution?  I'll bet you could get an Eduard or ResKit interested in collaborating on something like this.

Posted (edited)

I’ll be building a Defiant for sure, but I’m utterly undecided whether to go for the classic day fighter scheme during the brief halcyon days in early 1940:

 

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…..the night fighter…..


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….or even a target tug…..

 

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More research will be needed, that’s a certainty.

 

 

Edited by mozart

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