by bradjack99 » Sat Jun 23, 2018 5:39 pm
So its been quite a number of years since I had last done a post.
BUT, There is progress.
A couple of years ago I had had enough of what I was doing as a career, and decided to jump headfirst into the 3d world of 3d scanning, modelling and 3d printing. The business is getting bigger every year.
To that end, I still had my 2 sets of bismarck 1/100 plans (which i have had since 2002), one being a set of nick fox and i think the other are Hans Gally. Anyway, last week I spend a bit of money and got those digitised into PDFs. That did not go without hiccups, I have to go back as they messed up a couple of pages which to do that is about 3 hours out of my day. My next step, which I have already started is to put them into AutoCad and begin to turn them into 2d models then into 3d, then 3d print them. At present I have four 300 x 300 x 600mm printers which will print a 1/100 scale hull quite nicely. As an aside, I did spend some time trying to track Nick Fox down to see if he could supply me with the plans that he had drawn up, but I think he is retired.
I will also be able to do other scales as well once I have all the designs completed. When it comes to the hull, I am looking at being able to modify the insides of it to house whatever could go in, i.e strip leds, batteries, all the RC gear.
I am getting a HP Jetfusion 3d printer early next year when it is released in Australia, so that will help with the small parts that may struggle to print on the FDM Machine.
So the bismarck is a start, I may jump onto other ships once I get this one done, probabaly Yamato
So its been quite a number of years since I had last done a post.
BUT, There is progress.
A couple of years ago I had had enough of what I was doing as a career, and decided to jump headfirst into the 3d world of 3d scanning, modelling and 3d printing. The business is getting bigger every year.
To that end, I still had my 2 sets of bismarck 1/100 plans (which i have had since 2002), one being a set of nick fox and i think the other are Hans Gally. Anyway, last week I spend a bit of money and got those digitised into PDFs. That did not go without hiccups, I have to go back as they messed up a couple of pages which to do that is about 3 hours out of my day. My next step, which I have already started is to put them into AutoCad and begin to turn them into 2d models then into 3d, then 3d print them. At present I have four 300 x 300 x 600mm printers which will print a 1/100 scale hull quite nicely. As an aside, I did spend some time trying to track Nick Fox down to see if he could supply me with the plans that he had drawn up, but I think he is retired.
I will also be able to do other scales as well once I have all the designs completed. When it comes to the hull, I am looking at being able to modify the insides of it to house whatever could go in, i.e strip leds, batteries, all the RC gear.
I am getting a HP Jetfusion 3d printer early next year when it is released in Australia, so that will help with the small parts that may struggle to print on the FDM Machine.
So the bismarck is a start, I may jump onto other ships once I get this one done, probabaly Yamato