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3D Printing Cannons in Resin
Tossedman replied to thibaultron's topic in 3D-Printing and Laser-Cutting.
Looks great! I designed and laser cut an N scale engine shed. All of the parts such as window frames and mullions were separate so many more pieces than yours. It was fun to do. Learned a ton doing it. -
And soon the fun begins! At least you'll only have the one mast to rig. Todd
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Looks great Erik! nice work on the spars.. Todd
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I was browsing YouTube as I am wont to do from time to time and stumbled across this: It got me thinking and I searched for an image of a Royal Navy sailor from the early 1800s. I stumbled across this image: http://history-making.com/product/bosuns-mate-1806/ Following the steps in the video I went to makerworld.com and I created a 3D model from the 2D image. Here's what was generated. I then downloaded the OBJ file and threw it into my FDM printer and came up with this. This is printed at 0.4mm layer height and has had nothing done to it other than take off the supports. It's 82mm tall but could easily be scaled down. Give this technology some time to mature and it could be amazing. Only thing is, how does copyright affect such things? Could be a smelly can of worms that are being opened here. Perhaps it will render old paintings that are long out of copyright into 3D models. We'll have to see. You should be able to 3D print yourself though. Just dress up and take a photo. Suddenly, you're at the helm of your model ship. Cheers, Todd
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Nope, not yet. I'm thinking of getting a resin printer once it warms up outside. Will keep it in the garage. It's -27°C at the moment (feels like -38°C with the wind). Probably too cold for a printer in my unheated garage. 🥶
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Hello from Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Tossedman replied to AboveTheWaterLine's topic in New member Introductions
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Chris, I love how you combine the 3D printed boats with laser cut parts. Nice to see such technologies put to good use. Cheers, Todd
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I have both the Proxxon Bench Drill Press TBM 115 and the MICRO Compound Table KT 70. I use them both extensively and quite like them. I don't do any milling with this set up but it's great for drilling. I also have the PROXXON Precision Steel Vice PM 40 on the micro compound table. Great for repetition as I'll laser cut little jigs to hold pieces for accurate drilling. Cheers, Todd
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3D Printing Cannons in Resin
Tossedman replied to thibaultron's topic in 3D-Printing and Laser-Cutting.
Looks great Ron! Are you designing with SketchUp? Your last image makes me think so. You're really making me think about getting a resin 3D printer with all of this great stuff you're designing. I think the through bolt should added afterwards along with all of the other wire eyelets, although you don't really see it when the barrel is mounted. I'm not experienced enough with resin printing to comment on whether to print as separate pieces or all as one. Looking forward to your finished design. Cheers, Todd -
Looks great! Good to see you're installing an industrial fume extractor. Both the laser cutter and resin printer need to be vented. Too many people are 3D printing without any fume extraction and that resin is nasty stuff. Looking forward to seeing your completed new shop setup. Good luck with packing and moving. Cheers, Todd
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Log to PDF Tool
Tossedman replied to VTHokiEE's topic in How to use the MSW forum - **NO MODELING CONTENT**
Looks like it only works on Apple Silicon. Tried it on my Intel Mac but no go. 😐 -
Looks great Erik! I'm taking notes here. All these fantastic build threads give lots of solutions to things that may pop up when I've got a few builds under my belt and finally build my own Cheerful. Cheers, Todd
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New Proxxon Eccentric Clamping Fixture
Tossedman replied to GGibson's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
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Thanks for looking into this @Thukydides and sharing your finds. Apparently I bought that book years ago but its location escapes me at the moment. Great idea about the paper boat outlines @iMustBeCrazy and thanks for the information and links. All great info. I have the plans for Cheerful and am slowly collecting the resources to build it but will have to build a few other models beforehand to get my skill set up to par for such a model. I was just curious about where they might be on such a small ship. Thanks for the Alert reference and images of your Cheerful @Blue Ensign. It looks fantastic. Really goes to show how crowded the deck of a cutter would have been. Your 14' cutter looks quite large on deck in your images. Ship's boats of 20' or 22" would have really filled these ship's deck. Cheers, Todd
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I'm curious as to what ship's boats would have been carried on a cutter like Cheerful or Surly and where they may have been stowed. Any ideas out there? Cheers, Todd
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Wow! So good Glenn, so good! I'm just starting out in this hobby and this is something to aspire to for me. Thanks for sharing and documenting all of your hard work. Cheers, Todd
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It's also available in the Amazon Kindle store for the same price. Actually, cheaper! I just bought it for $2.99 Canadian.
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Posting photos in build log problems
Tossedman replied to Desertanimal's topic in Photographing your work. How to do this.
You can change your iPhone so it stores images as jpg files instead of HEIC files. Step 1: Go to iPhone Settings > Camera. Step 2: Now, tap Formats. Here, choose Most Compatible under Camera Capture. This will save you some effort in the future. It won't change any of the images you've already taken though. Here's a link to an online converter from HEIC to jpg. I haven't used this one but have used ones that only do one image at a time. This one apparently does batches in folders, so you may be able to do them all at once. https://to.imagestool.com/heic-to-jpg Cheers, Todd -
3D Printing Cannons in Resin
Tossedman replied to thibaultron's topic in 3D-Printing and Laser-Cutting.
Hi Ron, I had the carronade with trunnions that you designed 3D printed by a fella with a resin printer. Here's my first crack at mounting one on a carriage. Thanks again for providing the files. Cheers, Todd
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Those look great Erik! What did you use for the cap squares? Cheers, Todd
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I've been playing around on Heroforge, a website used by gamers to create miniatures for their games. The site lets you pick how the character will look and you are able to pose them. I tried to make them look more human and less toy like and here's what I have come up with. I don't have a resin 3D printer yet but have downloaded the STLs and will get them printed and see how they look. Here's what I've come up with. Not perfect but interesting nonetheless. Cheers, Todd
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These PCB drills work great in my little Proxxon drill press. Rarely break one because they are in a drill press and go straight up and down. I use collets so they run straight and true. When I put them in a pin vice it's like Paul says, they just screw in. Can't seem to get up to the required RPM by twisting them with my fingers. 😉 Rich, thanks for the heads up on the Foredom bits. Time to take a look around for some. Cheers, Todd
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These look great Chuck. I don't know much about resin printing but is there stronger resin that would allow for 1/4 scale?
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