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This week three sets of 3D figures of French Navy personnel.
Available at 1:400, 1:350, 1:200, 1:144, 1:100
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This week's new products with USN aircraft.
3D print at usual scale from 1:800 to 1:144.
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Reading this subject I realized I never posted the final pictures. Sorry.
Here is the last part of my post:
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Here is a list of French radar types found aboard Postwar Marine Nationale ships.
This may help to fit the correct type on your MN models.
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Starting March with new French "Marine Nationale" products. All in 3D at the usual scales
French Navy 3D fittings:
A collection of deck vehicles for French carriers (Clemenceau, Foch, Charles de Gaulle):
Fenwick TM35 with driver:
Liebherr LTM 1055 (Charles de Gaulle)
PPM (Clemenceau-Foch)
SEPMA K35 with driver
SEPMA K35 Fire fighting with driver
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More 3D aircraft this week (usual scales from 1:800 to 1:144)
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This week some new accessories for RN and modern French Navy:
Rope ladders and splinter protection for WWII Royal Navy:
Modern French Navy gun Narwhal:
Dinghy Marine Nationale :
French Marine Nationale Modern Radars : DRBV-15c, DRBV-26d, SMART S Mk2
Set for French Modern Navy fleet replenishment tankers (PRE) x 27 winches + 1 windlass 1/700:
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This month's first delivery
As usual, 3D printed, Scales from 1:800 to 1:144.
and more AFV:
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A collection of new USN and Marines aircraft of the '50s: Banshee, Panther, Cougar in many versions.
3D printed, available in scales from 1:700 to 1:144 as usual.
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Our new products for January.
3D direct printing, scale from 1:800 to 1:144
Continuing our range of AMV:
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17 hours ago, Peter2 said:
Someday these excellent models could be displayed in a space museum, so people can see the evolution of the French space programme. I imagine no similar comprehensive collection of French launchers has been attempted before by anyone.
Most probably, as I offered my designs to l'Arsenal and they should be made available soon in this corrected, improved, 3D printed version. Last Winter I assembled a partial 1:100 version for a South-East France association, to be displayed in various expositions.
Here are the 1:100 scale models :
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I'm about to conclude a 40 rocket project I started by 1982 about the French National Space Launcher Programme, that is, every French rocket produced or projected from 1950 until the termination of national programme in favour of Ariane.
Summary of the project so far:
The original project, in the form of a tecgnical survey for the Journal of The British Interplanetary Society, dates back to 1982. As soon as it was published in '87 I said to myself that I should make models of it... one day.The original article:
The problem was: what scratching technique? In those distant days I barely knew PE and my resin moulds were not up to scratch.
In 2010 I discovered 3D drawing and started to design these rockets in 3D:First the three groups of real launchers:
Then the four groups of follow-on projected launchers:
Some detail shots of the drawings:
Two years later (2012) I tried 3D printing (from a specialist... expensive... not great resolution).
In 2017 I bought my first 3D printer and set about producing masters of these machines for reproduction by resin casting. Accuracy was good but the finished product (moulded) still left something to be desired.My first custom printings (2017):
In 2022 I bought my third printer and this time I discovered excellent accuracy (19 microns) and a printing cost so affordable it became possible to produce direct prints. Gone was the expensive and time-consuming moulding phase.
The new printing precision has made it possible to completely rework the designs for a fourth drawing version with even greater accuracy and precision. In fact, between 2017 and 2023 I went from a resolution of 84 microns to 19 microns, and I had to take advantage of this in further detailling the project by replacing all the designed PE parts with 3D..
So the final assembly of these forty rockets is finally started, 41 years after the original idea.
We start by printing the latest version:
The interstage trusses of the big LRBA projects of 1966-68 were reworked, refined and printed. The first versions were made entirely of PE, which made assembly extremely difficult, if not impossible. Well, OK, impossible!
Printing continues:
I'm taking this opportunity to solve a support issue: the biggest launchers have multiple engines at the base and to make them more visible I've taken inspiration from a contemporary launch cradle for American Titan rockets to invent a support that goes well with it:
Start of assembly (in real chronological order) :
The interlocking studs on the different stages are not long enough (2mm), even though they also act as locators for the relative orientation of the two elements. I'm still managing, but precise alignment on the axis is a bit tricky. This will give rise to a fifth version of the drawings with tenons 3 times longer, which will be used for future prints. This proves the old adage: always make a prototype assembly before moving on to the final assembly.
On the right, the first rocketson their cradle:
The first part is finished, including all the launchers that actually existed, from Veronique to Diamant BP4. The painting phase begins with an AK black primer coat:
I then moved on to the launcher projects of 1965-1968, which included many more parts.
First, the SEREB solid fuelled launchers: Régent, Diogène 2, Turquoise C and H.
Then the LRBA's liquid fuel launchers:
Carmen :
Vulcain C, P and H :
Bacchus and Supervulcain 2 :
After assembly and priming, this second group joins the first for general painting.
After masking the parts that will remain metallic with Parafilm, four coats of Tamiya XF-2 matt white were applied. 4 hours of work and two large 23ml pots of paint, but the result is there:
Close-up of the Hyper Diamant boosters. Note the nozzles, previously painted light brown and masked with Parafilm, which is also used to fix them on toothpicks. Each booster is 8mm long and its nozzle about 1.5mm:
The other elements are painted with Alclad2 on a black base (Steel, Airframe aluminium, White aluminium, Magnesium).
Three more masking-painting operations for the other colours and we'll move on to the final assembly.
To be continued...
_Bruno
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More 3D new products this week: tanks, aircraft and helicopters.
Available at usual scales.
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This week's new products: FAA and Seaking (at last!)
https://www.larsenal.com/
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Sorry for this long intermission due to Covid. Here again some new products (3D printed, scales 1:700, 1:400, 1:350, 1:200, 1:144)
British aircraft from the Fleet Air Arm:
Continuing and developping our new range of printed military vehicle with a Sherman festival:
Anchor chains with correct bar links:
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More 3D printed aircraft this week:
(Usual scales : 700, 400, 350, 200, 144 and customized)
Next time, next month
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L'ARSENAL 2.0 will attend the Telford, UK, Scale Model Show on November 10th and 12th.
If you place an online order on our website (deadline is November 1st) AND get & pay by our stand in Telford you'll be given a 10% discount and, of course, no shipment fee.Mélaine and Thomas
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Here are our last new products for this month and before Telford Scale Model Show, which we'll attend on November 11th and 12th.
Those who plan to attend the show can order online now and ask to be delivered there, sparing shipment.More aircraft and helicopters at the usual scales (700, 400, 350, 200, 144 and other scales on demand):
L'Arsenal 2.0 still is on its migration from cast resin to 3D printed products and opens here a new range of military vehicles. This will progressively replace our older resin range:
More to come after Telford in November. Hoping to meet you there.
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This month we've added (all available in 1:700, 1:400, 1:350, 1:200, 1:144 and 1:100):
French Navy loudspeakers, three types:
French Navy fire hose & reels, two types:
French Navy style postwar 8m motor boat:
French Navy style extinguisher:
French Navy Zodiac inflatable boat:
WW2 Kriegsmarine 10.5cm SK-C33 on mount C38 DKM 10.5cm SK-C33 on mount C31 DKM:
WW2 Kriegsmarine Flak 20mm C30:
WW2 Kriegsmarine FlakVierling 20mm C30 with/without shield:
Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles:
US Navy (3D print with decals)
USSR/ Russia (3D print)
France (3D print with decals)
3D printed coconut tree:
And here is the last quarter of 2023 planning for our 3D printed aircraft, with the introduction, at last, of Royal Navy:
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A large collection of new products for this month:
More aircraft, lot of aircraft at scales 1:700, 1:400, 1:350, 1:200, 1:144 :
French Navy accessories:
French Navy Radars:
DRBI-10B
DRBV-11
DRBV-15A
DRBV-15B
DRBV-20A
DRBV-20C
DRBV-22A
DRBV-23
DRBV-26
DRBV-50
DRBV-51B
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During these very hot Summer days we desesperately need some... rotors to refresh...
So here are L'Arsenal 2.0's new products: a large collection of helicopters
(As usual, scale 1:700, 1:400, 1:350, 1:200, 1:144 and any intermediate scale on special order))
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Another small batch of products to end this month of May:
More USN aircraft will follow, but we start a new series in parallel, aimed at French Air Force aircraft:
Some French "Marine Nationale" item also:
Motoes plaques: every French modern naval ship display plaques with four word moto: Honneur, Patrie, Valeur, Discipline. On smaller naval ships words are grouped by two.
3D printing, a great improvement over former PE product:
French Navy standard external door:
As announced earlier, you can order from our site but the products will be posted FREE after June 25th.
Today our site is still down because of a serious break by our provider, but we'll return largely in time for you to send your orders. -
Dear customers,
I'd like to thank you for your support, your compliments and your many orders over the last few months.
But I have to admit that we are victims of our own success.
Our production is behind schedule and our stocks are running low.
I'm therefore going to close L'Arsenal from today until June 25th. We're going to take advantage of this period to concentrate solely on our production.
That way, when we reopen on June 26th, stocks will be full again and orders will be filled.
To apologise for this inconvenience, I'm offering you free postage (without tracking or insurance) during this period, with delivery at the end of June.
The release of the latest new products in May is being maintained as the items have already been produced and are in stock, except for the Sagaie, Dagaie, 20mm f1 and 30mm Breda barrels, which have been postponed until the end of June.
So see you soon, and in the meantime, I'll be producing like crazy!
Mélaine
L'ARSENAL New products for March of 2024 PART FOUR
in L'Arsenal 2.0
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This week, two new 3D Japanese aircraft
1:700, 1:400, 1:350 as usual