Thunda Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Hi All, Im lucky enough to have access to a well equipped 'make lab' at the University, and Ive been planning to try and print a 1/32 aircraft for a while. This week, we made a start, and have chosen as our first attempt the Kawanishi N1K1-J- mainly as its a fairly simple shape, and I might be able to use some components from the Hasegawa N1K2 George kit. We've only spent around an hour on it so far- we're planning to print the cowling, the 2 halves of the fuselage and the wings seperately- using Rhino 3D and exporting .dxf files. We have many Ultimaker 3D printers and we'll be using these initially for our tests. Heres a couple of screen grabs- not much to see yet, but its very early days: Anyway, will try and keep you up to date- any comments or suggestions are welcome. Kagemusha, MikeMaben, Hartmann52 and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Nice! I've got the old Revell mid wing release in green plastic, but will be very nice to see this come together. As I've said before, I deem this kind of thing the future of modeling for sure alaninaustria 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kagemusha Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Very interesting, especially as I also have the Revell kit, together with the vac, and resin conversions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_S Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 I'm very close to mating the wings and fuselage on mine! Out2gtcha and Kagemusha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Bill_S said: I'm very close to mating the wings and fuselage on mine! And were waiting with baited breath! (no seriously, Im looking forward tro it!) Bill_S 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_S Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 37 minutes ago, Out2gtcha said: And were waiting with baited breath! (no seriously, Im looking forward tro it!) Soon, my friend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monthebiff Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Cool project, will be watching your progress with interest! Regards. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunda Posted September 7, 2018 Author Share Posted September 7, 2018 Small update- spent some time on the tail yesterday: The tail plane is a real 'signature' of the N1K1- very different to the K2 and is important to get right. More later today.... LSP_Kevin, AlexM, Out2gtcha and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunda Posted September 7, 2018 Author Share Posted September 7, 2018 Heres a few pictures of our facility: We deal with students from right acrodd the University, from fine artists and designers, to forensic & medical artists, to dental technicians and medical students. You can see here we've got some examples- on the left are human hearts (everyone thinks they are 'alien eggs' because they still have the support structures attached!), half a human skull, at the bottom a jaw bone with printed teeth, in the middle a dragons skull, on the right the skeleton of a dwarf who lived in Edinburgh in the 1800's. This was part of forensics students project and this was eventually done full size with fleshed out body, glass eyes etc- so realistic it was extremely creepy.... An example of some of the 3D printers we have- they are all named after characters in TV detective shows for the purposes of booking out, so you can see Rockford, Starsky & Hutch, Cagney & Lacy, Monk & Ironside, so the students come in and say "Ive booked 2 hours with Ironside". Under the desk you can see some reels of the filament we use for the prints. We have recently bought a machine which recycles both the pff cuts of filament and the plastic reels into more filament. A worthwhile purchase... LSP_Kevin, D.B. Andrus, alaninaustria and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Wow, what an interesting set up!! Lucky you! Cheers Alan Thunda 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trak-Tor Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Great project! I'll be watching you closely... What software do you use for modeling? Juraj Thunda 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunda Posted September 7, 2018 Author Share Posted September 7, 2018 Mainly Rhino 3D, but we can import pretty much any vector based file, so illustrator, In Design etc can be used to draw individual parts and then imported and added to the model. We export via .dxf files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiran01 Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Ahh brilliant! Looks like a very good start and the shapes look right. Rhino is a wonderful program, I'm trying to figure out how to get my own legitimate copy without paying $500+, I'm stuck with vectorworks for the time being which I find to be much less intuitive Thunda 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Good show. Great stuff. Do you have access to a 3D scanner? Thank you. Sincerely, Mark Thunda 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antonio Argudo Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 what's the name of that paradise? any link or website? simply amazing cheers Thunda 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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