Hello from Christchurch, New Zealand

[Tillsbury]

Hello all, I'm new here too.  Just received the 1:100 Heller Victory set for my birthday, rather surprisingly.  This of course has the huge advantage of being the perfect excuse if my wife thinks I'm spending too much time modelling 😀

 

I did do some N-scale railway modelling twenty years ago, but otherwise not a great deal since childhood.  

 

There seems to be a pretty large rabbit-hole dug by Dafi and others that I'm exploring, and I'm waiting for delivery of all sorts of tools and bits and pieces because my stash is all over 20 years old and spread around various boxes by house moving etc.  The expectation is that this is likely to take a number of years, as I'm not going to be building it "straight from the box" but will be aiming for something about half-way between a box build and what better modellers have achieved.  And I have a family to look after not to mention many other projects on the go.

 

While I'm waiting for parts I've been having an initial play with 3d printing, trying to develop appropriate blocks for a start.  Please excuse the crummy string from the box but I guess it has its uses even though it's oversize.  It's probably about 7" circumference scale so shouldn't be what's around a 9" block (0.6mm in 3mm block).  But as a sailor I am keen to attempt to get the look of the rigging and splicing better over time.  I don't sail traditional boats but have been watching things like the rebuild of Tally Ho online and that kind of thing has always appealed.

 

Would love to hear from anyone either locally, or building the same kit, or to share hints and files for 3d printing, or any other reason I guess...

 

Tillsbury

 

 

[Jim Lad]

Hello Tillsbury, and a warm welcome to the forum from across the ditch!

 

John

[Srenner]

Hi... im in Auckland and have been doing ship building and 3 d printing now for 2 years or so. My 3d printing skills have improved alot so happy to lend a hand when it comes time to start creating print files and printing things... 

 

Would be great to know other nz builders.

Cheers Stuart 

[GrandpaPhil]

Welcome!

[Keith Black]

 Tillsbury, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard. 

[AJohnson]

Welcome to MSW. 

[Tillsbury]

3 hours ago, Srenner said:

Hi... im in Auckland and have been doing ship building and 3 d printing now for 2 years or so. My 3d printing skills have improved alot so happy to lend a hand when it comes time to start creating print files and printing things... 

 

Would be great to know other nz builders.

Cheers Stuart 

Thanks for all the welcomes, everyone.

 

Stuart, do you know of a repository of parts anywhere?  So much dross is on the usual generic 3d printing sites, it would be good to have a place such as on here where Victory parts could be shared...

[Srenner]

I would start on here.. there is the 3d print forum on the front page you can post a question or people will offer to print stuff for you and post it. I did a few parts for people who are following my build log

Edited 18 hours ago by Srenner
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[Knocklouder]

Bob  M.                 .

[CPDDET]

Welcome aboard!

[Tillsbury]

3 hours ago, Srenner said:

I would start on here.. there is the 3d print forum on the front page you can post a question or people will offer to print stuff for you and post it. I did a few parts for people who are following my build log

 

Thanks, but it doesn't look like there are any STL files there.  Is it that they can't be uploaded, or just that no-one does?

[Baker]