Starfighter Posted April 9, 2019 Author Share Posted April 9, 2019 I am working with Inventor 2019. The future is now - it is possible to print your own kits, but it doesn't make sense for most people now and it and probably won't make sense in the future. Even if you have a printer and if you buy ready-to-print CAD files, it still takes a lot of time and effort to get usable parts - it's not like you click 'print' and you have parts ready to be assembled a few hours later. Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonH Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 Really nice work. In terms of cost, how does it compare with buying an injection moulded kit? I imagine the materials for 3-D printing are quite expensive. Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted April 9, 2019 Author Share Posted April 9, 2019 There is no general answer to this question - depends on what kind of printer you have and which material you use. There are pretty cheap filaments for FDM printers, there are more expensive ones and there are many different resins for DLP or SLA printers... HerculesPA_2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmy! Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 (edited) Sponson drawing. Hope this is useful to your model. I cleaned it up a little bit and added known dimensions in inches. Timmy! Looking forward to the build! Edited April 9, 2019 by Timmy! Dadeo911, sandokan, HerculesPA_2 and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted April 10, 2019 Author Share Posted April 10, 2019 This is most awesome, thank you very much Timmy! My sponsons are based on enlarged Academy drawings, but they are not 100% accurate shape wise compared with photos of the real a/c, so I modified them quite a bit. I will make a new CAD file based on your drawings to see how they look compared with 'my' sponsons. The biggest challenge will be the interior, especially in mine sweeping configuration... not sure this was the best choice for a 'less complex' project! A-10LOADER and D.B. Andrus 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shark64 Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 So cool. yes , i am watching this one close Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-10LOADER Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Simply amazing stuff Ben and, you make it all look so easy. That printer would be useful for some parts for my next JSI F-14D conversion. Steve Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted April 17, 2019 Author Share Posted April 17, 2019 Cheers gentlemen! No progress at the moment I'm afraid - my graphics card died earlier this week and I have to finish the new Academy AH-1Z in the not too distant future. Work on the big Dragon will resume once I have a new graphics card! A-10LOADER 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted May 15, 2019 Author Share Posted May 15, 2019 Got a new graphics card, so it was time to add more details to the MH-53E sponsons while I'm waiting for a replacement canopy for my Academy Viper. Adding raised details to compound curved parts is very time consuming, but I hope the result will be worth the pain. I'll have to split them into two halves as they are too big for my little Photon. LSP_Kevin, GMK, jgrease and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiran01 Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 This is looking amazing! Can you share any tips or point me to where I may find tips on how to add surface details in cad please? Especially around curves like you’ve done on the sponson. I’m trying to design my own model and that finding I need more of an assist than I thought I would... Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted May 15, 2019 Author Share Posted May 15, 2019 It depends on which program you are using! I work with Autodesk Inventor - in this case I can indeed tell you how to do this. If you are using another program, I won't be able to help I'm afraid... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Love it Ben! I can imagine how long it would've taken to draw that up! Craig Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radders Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 This is so cool.... great project. Any chance of seeing it next to something for a size up? Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCRATCH BUILDER Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 Nice Ben, Did you see Anycubic has updated the software with anti aliasing, you can get up to X8, your files will be bigger but the prints are nice! Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted May 20, 2019 Author Share Posted May 20, 2019 6 hours ago, Radders said: This is so cool.... great project. Any chance of seeing it next to something for a size up? I will take a pic with something beside it later today! Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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