I'm just getting started on a 4x8. Its been a long time and I am very excited to get scenery going
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Hi jmola
Space! thats thats a great thing you came upon. Thanks for the heads up. I've been reading on that very condition and will plan to have sidings at either end.
One thing bumming me out - on a 4x8 ther is enough room for landsacping and a passing siing on the out side? I hat 18" rads and want to add a passing wiit 22" 😕 and that leaves a sliver on the outside. How did you deal with that?
I enjoy seeing your layout?
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Its not unusual for the production company to do most of the work on the computer, then they use a 3D printer to create an initial oversized positive which is detailed and finished by hand. That gets used to create the mold for the finished product. Direct 3D printing the finished product doesn't work so well, as the low-cost material doesn't hold up and the high-cost durable material won't print the fine details very well.
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Looks like you guys could use a 3D printer! Or would that take the fun out of it?
We recently installed a 3d printer at the office. I made a couple of defensive walls for my toy army men and painted them up. They came out looking decent. Up close you can see some of the artifacts of the printing process byt it looks good from a couple of feet away.
That looks too good for battle-equipment! Ever think about creatively simulating some aesthetic plasma or bolter damage?
What do you think those gaps are in the left part of the longer wall? (Ok those are actually some problem the 3d printer had, but I can imagine it is battle damage.)
I usually paint my models pretty clean because I am not so great a simulating battle damage. My marines are all the new guys!
Yeah, I can tell - they're all green...
The battle damage can be art in itself; if done well, it can even tell a good story!
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@troma wrote:Looks like you guys could use a 3D printer! Or would that take the fun out of it?
We recently installed a 3d printer at the office. I made a couple of defensive walls for my toy army men and painted them up. They came out looking decent. Up close you can see some of the artifacts of the printing process byt it looks good from a couple of feet away.
I'm not familiar with the process of 3D printing at all. Did you paint by hand after printing? Or do you mean you digitally painted them and the printer handles colour along with shape?
Very cool pictures, thanks for posting.
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Working on Civil 3D in Canada
Sorry I was not clear. The walls were painted by hand after the print was complete. Here is a picture of what they looked like before painting. These happened to be printed with clear resin. We currently have white and red too but a whole rainbow of colors can be used. Each print run however has to be a single color, so if you want different colors you have to print you models in parts and assemble after the fact.
Here is an image of the model in the computer version before printed.
This is about as high-tech as it's going to get for me:
(20mm gauge in case you're interested.)
Good enough for me and my girl!
Mark Green
Working on Civil 3D in Canada
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