Marcel111 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Incredible work going on here! Cockpit and exhaust look amazing and they are not even in the correct scale! Marcel MDuv 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDuv Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 On 12/7/2021 at 8:23 PM, mattcour said: The nozzles are great!! Hi MAtt, Thank you. I am happy with them as well :-) On 12/8/2021 at 6:38 PM, spartacus2000 said: great work can u give me printing parameter(I switched from black to gray resin and I have problems with the setting) tnx in advance Hi Spartacus. Here are my current. I over lenghtened the exposure time because i'm currently working with old stashed resin (more than a year) wich kept failing with lower exposure. Not sure if the setting will be valid anymore when I switch to new stock. On 12/8/2021 at 9:50 PM, Marcel111 said: Incredible work going on here! Cockpit and exhaust look amazing and they are not even in the correct scale! Marcel Thanks Marcel. I hope the larger one will please you as well. Anyz and AIrscale decals at the menu to bring all this grey space to life. Cheers. spartacus2000 and Antonio Argudo 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDuv Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 (edited) Hi guys, here is a small update on the seamless Intakes dev. I got theses tubes in the final stage of fitting. Fitting pics are not full length intakes as the printing time for a complete part is about 8hours. So I just printed the first part of the tube until the profile is correct, that's still 2 hours of wait until test fit. Full length early attempts are pictured here. They do not fit at all with the kit part, but you get the idea. Family pic with the kit part. Unlike other seamless intake correction, the outer Tamiya part is to be kept, and the suckers has to be (force) glued to it. Some filler will be needed to complete the assembly. But its located at a very reachable and easy to work place. I think it's more viable than designing a full outer, wich will have to be fitted to the fuselage. I am of course considering sharing the file once fully finished, but still need to figure out how to do this easily. Maybe there is possibility on the Scale Model Paint Masks forum to expand to 3D model sharing as well ? Cheers. Mathieu Edited December 11, 2021 by MDuv blackbetty, patricksparks, scvrobeson and 21 others 22 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Brilliant design and execution Mathieu! This in my opinion is the best way to achieve a seamless intake for the Tamiya kit. I used a seamless intake set and ground off the outside and slipped it into the plastic parts. I found this easier to do than dealing with more resin surface details to deal with against the plastic medium brilliant! Gene K and MDuv 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 Absolutely stunning work, Mathieu! A great platform to share 3D files is cults (www.cults3d.com). Fanch usees it to hsre his brilliant 3D files as well. I would love to give it a try on my Mono X for sure. MDuv 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDuv Posted December 16, 2021 Author Share Posted December 16, 2021 (edited) On 12/11/2021 at 7:42 PM, Anthony in NZ said: Brilliant design and execution Mathieu! This in my opinion is the best way to achieve a seamless intake for the Tamiya kit. I used a seamless intake set and ground off the outside and slipped it into the plastic parts. I found this easier to do than dealing with more resin surface details to deal with against the plastic medium brilliant! Hi Anthony, Yeah from my experience, blending resin into plastic is more labor intensive, and more prone to lead to problem in the aftermath. Hence the path i've chosen for this. On 12/13/2021 at 9:56 AM, Starfighter said: Absolutely stunning work, Mathieu! A great platform to share 3D files is cults (www.cults3d.com). Fanch usees it to hsre his brilliant 3D files as well. I would love to give it a try on my Mono X for sure. Hi Starfighter, Thanks for the heads up, indeed it's the platform I had selected. Hope you have an unassembled phantom kit at your disposal, See next post. Cheers. Edited December 16, 2021 by MDuv Anthony in NZ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDuv Posted December 16, 2021 Author Share Posted December 16, 2021 (edited) Hi guys, Here is the final prototype for my intake tubes, they are roughly printed to speed up the print time and check the fit, production parts should be smoother. I added a support that conform to the fuselage part and keep it well aligned. The screw assembly of the original part is kept and reused. The turbine faces and pitot tubes are reused as well. The only puttying needed should be where the lip join the intake outer part. There is bad moulding marks at that point so smoothing was needed anyway. This area being easily accessible, it’s an easy job. Would you want to give it a try ? It's avaible to downlad for free: https://cults3d.com/.../1-32-f-4-phantom-seamless-intake... Enjoy. Mathieu Edited December 16, 2021 by MDuv Landrotten Highlander, Starfighter, thierry laurent and 18 others 20 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 Brilliant, thank you so much Mathieu! I do indeed have one in my stash which is due to be converted into an F-4B... which will be much easier thanks to your generous help! MDuv, Anthony in NZ and Gene K 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antonio Argudo Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 this guy has some serious skills with technologies that get in his hands, watch out !!! Gene K and MDuv 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youngtiger1 Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 Another selfless act from a True model maker. Antonio Argudo, MDuv, Starfighter and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene K Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Mathieu, What happened to this spectacular project? Gene K Anthony in NZ, John1 and MDuv 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDuv Posted December 30, 2022 Author Share Posted December 30, 2022 Hi Gene ! Funny you are unearthing this thread ! Thoses Intakes looks the part ain't they? I have been quite a bit distracted from the build. To keep the story short: I started designing the rear cockpit parts, intending to keep the parts number to a minimum, then I realised, that for fitting them, the tub would have to be modded. Tamiya (and most AM brands) gives you an angled rear wall (behind the seat) while it should be vertical. So I started to design a new tub, and with the skills on fusion slowlly increasing, I wanted to try other things.... and thats the point I lost focus on the Phantom. I intend, however to get back and finish the whole thing, but that might wait for the new F-4B to be released, and my other distractions to be completed ! Regards. Mathieu Youngtiger1, Gene K, Anthony in NZ and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene K Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 56 minutes ago, MDuv said: Those Intakes looks the part ain't they? Absolutely. Quite an impressive Fusion accomplishment. Warning off scale follows: I reduced and printed your intakes to 1/72 to use with Hasegawa Phantoms -- took quite a lot of fiddling, but the parts are useable. Wish I were somewhat as accomplished in Fusion as you are an expert. I also reduced your wing parts to 1/72 and tailored them to a FineMolds kit. "One of these days" I'll actually start the modding! Quote ... with the skills on fusion slowly increasing, I wanted to try other things.... and that's the point I lost focus on the Phantom. I totally understand. Fusion proved to be beyond my diminished mental skills. Quote I intend, however to get back and finish the whole thing, but that might wait for the new F-4B to be released, and my other distractions to be completed ! It will be worth the wait to witness your magic. However, I wouldn't hold my breath on new 1/32 Phantoms, especially from Sprue Brothers ... or do you know otherwise?? Thanks again for all the sharing. Gene K MDuv 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene K Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 On 12/16/2021 at 4:54 AM, MDuv said: Would you want to give [the seamless intakes] a try ? It's available to download for free: https://cults3d.com/.../1-32-f-4-phantom-seamless-intake... Mathieu, Can you share a picture of your support scheme, please? Any more progress? Thanks, Gene K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDuv Posted April 19, 2023 Author Share Posted April 19, 2023 (edited) Hi Gene, I havn't printed them for a while, but I believe the support would looke somthin' like this : No progress I'm afraid. All the best. Mathieu Edited April 19, 2023 by MDuv Gene K, Starfighter and Youngtiger1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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