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  1. Serkan Sen
    Welcome to the unlimited creativity of the 3d printing world. I am quite sure that you will start to print your own models soon!.. To encourage you here are some pictures to show what you can do with your Mars3. Serkan
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    Which is not a big surprise 🙂 Even it is impossible to cure it such a thick resin under the sun light and your little uv torch can't do that as the light can't penetrate to the opaque resin more than a millimeter. Applying a light coats and increasing the thickness layer by layer was a wise decision. “Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.” — Mark Twain
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    Looks really good Tim. Even better than mine printed in 1:48 scale. Serkan
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    Depending on size I would go with Elegoo Mars 3 or Saturn 2 8K. They come with slicing software. For CAD you can use Fusion360 for free as a hobbyist. Serkan
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    All these efforts showed again that you need urgently a 3d printer!.. Serkan
  6. Serkan Sen
    Here are few more photos of close views: Serkan
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    Very nice intro and good start Tim. I will follow your build with great interest. Serkan
  8. Serkan Sen
    Finally I have managed to finish all payloads and now this build is "Ready For Inspection": I hope you enjoyed this build as I did. Now it is time to finish another "Hall of Shame" build. Serkan
  9. Serkan Sen
    Hi all, Finally I have finished one of my "Hall of Shame" which was mainly pending for armaments for several months. This build was based on an old Academy kit and except the mainframe, almost everything have been replaced with aftermaket and self casted resin parts: Cockpit and seats Nozzle and exhaust Wheel wells and wheels and bay doors Speed brakes Nose cone and pitot tube, probes Wide mouth intake (duplicated from Kinetic Viper) VTP dorsal fairing (duplicated from Kinetic Viper) All launchers and pylons (duplicated from Kinetic Viper) AN/ALQ-188 Jamming Pod (duplicated from Kinetic Viper) Self made decals Self made paint masks Here are some photos of this build: The WIP can be found here: Although the finished model is not perfect, in overall I am very satisfied with the result. I hope you will like it too. Many thanks for viewing. Serkan
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    I used this scheme on my What-if "Flankerstein" which looks very beautiful: Serkan
  11. Serkan Sen
    Very shiny and beautiful Fishbed. Nice and eye catching build Bill. Serkan
  12. Serkan Sen
    Looks awesome Steve. I have the same tool in its original box. Till now I was not brave enough to attempt using it on a nearly finished model. But I will exercise it on my one of the ongoing Oxcart builds. There will be enough panels to be riveted. 😁 Serkan
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    No worries Dave. Maybe this is a good chance to convert your build into 1:48 Oxcart project. After spending weeks on my never ending Flanker builds to overcome the bleeding resin issue I decided to place the models into oven and slowly cure at 50°C. But guess what happened? They have been badly deformed. But I was able to recover three of them: Take a deep breath and give a second chance to this beautiful bird. Serkan
  14. Serkan Sen
    Few more photos for the close views: And finally all three sisters together: There are few areas to be fine tuned. Also I have some plans to add the details of engine bay. But I can say that the model is ready to build for standard display. Serkan
  15. Serkan Sen
    Many Thanks Tony. I think the biggest issue in your 3D model is that you are detailing everything in quantum scale which is impossible to print them with today's technology. Serkan
  16. Serkan Sen
    The next step will be the interior detailing of the engine bay and J-58 engine. In parallel both the AG330 starter cart and J-58 engine dolly models were nearly completed. I will post some photos soon. Serkan
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    Many thanks Tony. This is a great honor to hear such a compliment from you. Compared to your ongoing Westland Wasp project mine is very basic one 😁 Serkan
  18. Serkan Sen
    Thanks Pete. Yes I printed all windshield and canopy parts with transparent clear resin. But some improvements/post processing is needed to improve transparency. Serkan
  19. Serkan Sen
    After three hours intensive work the assembly of the model finished. Here is the fully printed A-12 Oxcart in 1/72 scale: The model looks very beautiful and it does worth all these four years efforts at the end. The close view details will follow. Serkan
  20. Serkan Sen
    The printed parts are now ready to assemble. The vertical fins have been modeled and printed bottom well: Here are the new fuselage front and rear halves: The MLG wells can be placed by simply sliding along the slots: Now all parts are ready to assemble the entire Oxcart!.. Serkan
  21. Serkan Sen
    Last two weeks I was busy with fixing some issues and correcting the details mainly at rear lower fuselage and wing/engine junctions as well as the mlg bay door contours. Finally I finished this work and here are the models before and after this fix. The old model: and the new one: Last but not least, the nose wheel drag stay door was added to the model: The six-pieces print model design has been changed to more simpler two-pieces design which makes the assembly simpler and still printable 1:48 scale parts in Saturn 8K printer. But for 1:32 scale (or even larger scales) the six-piece model is still necessary 🙂 The print job has been submitted to the Mars 3 printer which will take around eight hours. But I am not in hurry as there are lots of things to do in meantime. Serkan
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    Nice progress so far Dave, I had no big issues assembling printed nozzle parts during my build: To reduce amount of cleaning process I always use masking tape. Serkan
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    Nice progress so far Bill. Enjoy your trip! Serkan
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    Hi Neffan, no my plan is to print entire A-12 Oxcart and Titanium Goose + M-21 Mothership 🙂 SR-71 will follow later. The assembly of test prints is ongoing. I will post some photos soon. Serkan
  25. Serkan Sen
    You don't have to wait 10 years to see the future. 😉 Here is my ongoing 3d printed Oxcart (only the yellow parts were missing to build entire model): The model is consisting of more than 100 parts. Now I am doing some fine tuning to complete this project. Serkan
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