Anyone good with a 3d printer?

[Snaaakeey]

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/1-24-3d-pr...

Fantastic model.

[Modrich]

Wow! How have they created that?!! That's amazing. I'm new to 3D printing so might give it a go...

Looks like you have to do without windows though, because how would you print them...?

Does anyone know if these cars were ever designed on CAD or was it all on the drawing board? If there are and CAD designs/models I don't recall ever seeing any...

[Snaaakeey]

Windows are vacuum formed clear plastic. You 3d print the forms. All in the file!

[Dudley99]

Why would you? And a 1/24 scale - it will be tiny. How long and how much will it cost to print and what will the quality be like?

There are plenty of proper die-cast, quality items for sale online for under £100 in a bigger size.

[geeks]

Looks like an absolute pain in the nutsack to print and the amount of post processing would be truly awful.

The old adage "just because you can 3D print something, doesn't mean you should!" springs to mind

[Modrich]

You mean you didn't make Tamiya kits when you were a kid? Now you can actually print the kit before you make it, that's approximatelt twice the fun! Sure there's ready made models for those that can't be arsed but for those that can the fun is in the creating and building not in the buying and putting it on a shelf...

[frontfloater]

"Anyone good with a 3d printer? "

You won't get much of a printer for only thrupence ...

(Anyone under the age of 60 will not get this piece of priceless hilarity)

[geeks]

Modrich said:

You mean you didn't make Tamiya kits when you were a kid? Now you can actually print the kit before you make it, that's approximatelt twice the fun! Sure there's ready made models for those that can't be arsed but for those that can the fun is in the creating and building not in the buying and putting it on a shelf...

I did airfix kits and the like sure. 3D printing for this would be a ballache, add onto that the post processing to remove layer lines etc. Like I say lots of work and I mean alot, not impossible but not really a worthwhile print, certainly not for FDM. Resin printing will likely produce much better results that will be easier to post process but also will take an absolute age to print all of the parts

[The Three D Mucketeer]

The £37.50 was putting me off , because I expected it to be .gcode print files . On close examination the downloads are .stl files , which becomes more interesting... because I could import them to Autodesk and tweek them and completely rescale the model ... food for thought for a wet day in Winter

I could turn it into a MK2 or even better a Convertible

It takes 53 hours to print a real Tuscan A Post mucket , so that's not an issue


PS I wonder if they've taken a existing model ... broke it down into pieces and scanned them ??? Rather than creating .3mf files

Edited by The Three D Mucketeer on Tuesday 28th October 14:27

[Modrich]

I did exactly this the other day with the free Sagaris .stl files into Autocad...

[The Three D Mucketeer]

Modrich said:

I did exactly this the other day with the free Sagaris .stl files into Autocad...

Well you're not short of wet days in Scotland

[Basil Brush]

The Three D Mucketeer said:

The £37.50 was putting me off , because I expected it to be .gcode print files . On close examination the downloads are .stl files , which becomes more interesting... because I could import them to Autodesk and tweek them and completely rescale the model ... food for thought for a wet day in Winter

I could turn it into a MK2 or even better a Convertible

It takes 53 hours to print a real Tuscan A Post mucket , so that's not an issue


PS I wonder if they've taken a existing model ... broke it down into pieces and scanned them ??? Rather than creating .3mf files

Edited by The Three D Mucketeer on Tuesday 28th October 14:27

Spot the retired person!

From a soon to be retired person.

[LunarOne]

geeks said:

The old adage "just because you can 3D print something, doesn't mean you should!" springs to mind

I wonder how old exactly!

[The Three D Mucketeer]

Basil Brush said:

Spot the retired person!

From a soon to be retired person.

I've been at it for 25 years , so I'm getting pretty good at it

[Snaaakeey]

The Three D Mucketeer said:

The £37.50 was putting me off , because I expected it to be .gcode print files . On close examination the downloads are .stl files , which becomes more interesting... because I could import them to Autodesk and tweek them and completely rescale the model ... food for thought for a wet day in Winter

I could turn it into a MK2 or even better a Convertible

It takes 53 hours to print a real Tuscan A Post mucket , so that's not an issue


PS I wonder if they've taken a existing model ... broke it down into pieces and scanned them ??? Rather than creating .3mf files

Edited by The Three D Mucketeer on Tuesday 28th October 14:27

Why on eath would you do that. The Mk 1 is obviously best most pure version of the Tuscan ................ : P