Friday, February 21, 2020

3D Printing

Well my Prusa 3D printer arrived last night and I am already burning the midnight oil with new projects. The set up was reasonably simple, despite my reservations, and downloading and printing files seems ok. Early days, and exciting possibilities, and in the image below you can see me in the process of printing a small fort shore battery, scaled for 28mm but still ok for 40mm

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3 comments:

  1. Graham CFebruary 21, 2020 at 5:45 AM

    Well done and be careful it is very addictive 😀

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  2. Graham HilditchFebruary 21, 2020 at 8:03 AM

    Thanks Graham. I think I am already addicted. Very satisfying to create something from nothing. I can see my real estate collection developing rapidly

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  3. caliburger34June 28, 2021 at 9:59 PM

    Although learning all that has proved to be extremely useful in the computer age too, working digitally gives us more consistency and better results in less time (plus other advantages). 3d models

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