Thread: Hello from Nottingham
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14-08-2013 #11
You have my attention Deadmeat3d love the injector would be interested in how you go with that , keep us posted :)
coffees fer girlies , nice cup of tea if yer bloke with an almond slice or Batternburg Cake :) Yes and its late I know just spent four hours watching Autocad tutorials and now I cant sleep lol !Last edited by Fivetide; 14-08-2013 at 03:26 AM.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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14-08-2013 #13
That little machine looks like it will be very useful when up and running. War gaming figures sounds interesting, I make small scale dolls houses and have considered doing some "derelect" structures for the WG market. I think making the moulds for your figures (I presume not flatback) would be quite difficult as I believe the most common method is wire errosion. Do you sculpt your figures yourself? Interested to hear you cast resin into silicon at present, I do a bit of white metal casting (centrifugal) into silicon moulds. G.
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14-08-2013 #14Fivetide
Re: Hello from Nottingham
You have my attention Deadmeat3d love the injector would be interested in how you go with that , keep us posted :)
coffees fer girlies , nice cup of tea if yer bloke with an almond slice or Batternburg Cake :) Yes and its late I know just spent four hours watching Autocad tutorials and now I cant sleep lol !
yeah its almost ready to go! Just need to hook my compressor up to ensure the pneumatic's are working fine, then it'll be time to get the mould done! There is a german company called Hasco who make small mould blocks, so can pick up everything i need from there, bar the actual cutting of the tool. I tested the PID lastnight with the thermocouple, and worked a treat, definitely better than the old dial one.
GEOFFREY
Re: Hello from Nottingham
That little machine looks like it will be very useful when up and running. War gaming figures sounds interesting, I make small scale dolls houses and have considered doing some "derelect" structures for the WG market. I think making the moulds for your figures (I presume not flatback) would be quite difficult as I believe the most common method is wire errosion. Do you sculpt your figures yourself? Interested to hear you cast resin into silicon at present, I do a bit of white metal casting (centrifugal) into silicon moulds. G.
Heres some pictures of my stuff.
3D render of the model
Resin cast of the torso (you can see the blue 3d print just behind it)
Baby version of the torso as i was play about.
Front render of a spaceship
Rear render of a spaceship
3D print ready to be moulded
Finished model cast in resin and built
Just another view
Front to an engine port
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14-08-2013 #15
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14-08-2013 #16
I have a 3d printer, its a Solidscape printer able to print to 13 microns on the z axis. It prints in wax, so can be used for the lost wax casting method. Can print out some amazing details.
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Cool and only about £16K but impressive. ..Clive
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14-08-2013 #18
How much ? PM me if you want.
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14-08-2013 #19
Wow awesome stuff ..!!!
Fiction is far more plausible when wrapped around a thread of truth
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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14-08-2013 #20
So onto the milling machine. You say I'm best concentrating on a smaller but highly accurate machine. What kind of working area should I be thing about? Slightly bigger than the mould plates I'll be using? Also what accuracy can be achieved? What kind of price should I be budgeting on such build. I don't have endless amounts, but happy to be looking at few thousand.
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