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Polymer chemistry, model making, 3D print, cookery - this is pretty much smack in the overlap sweetspot of my geekery Venn diagram (just need triathlon/cycle racing in there to get the full set)

Looking forward to the eventual project a massive ultra obscure never made land cruiser that takes the best part of a decade to print

Thanks! I'm not sure how long the early ones took as there was a fair bit of back and forth and I am still learning the software but the latest AW.58 probably was 10 hours or so but I think it helped that I had a clear plan in my head for how I was going to tackle it having just done a very similar one previous. I need to go back to the early ones and rework them in light of what I've learned recently to add more details and tweaks

... now the olive oil contains a lot of unsaturated carbon-carbon double bonds much the same as your printer resin although less reactive (hence why it goes rancid eventually as those react with the air and free radicals generated by the action of light to create a rubbery gunk) so depending on how powerful the pen is you might be slowly adding off flavours to the olive oil. ... or you might be about to revolutionise 3D printing with the first wholly organic resin that doubles as a salad dressing

Thanks! I saw your thread, marvelled at it and went back a few times to see how it was going. Excellent work so far and I’m sure when you get back to it you’ll have a beautiful end result. I’m just a beginner by comparison I don’t have a resin printer yet but if these test prints come out looking nice I might have to invest in one.

You should probably go and check out @TheBaron‘s WIP thread for more cross sections of the Sea Vixen can you could shake a great many sticks at

That is an excellent price, I imagine there’ll be more than a few folk here tempted to jump on that

Steady on, I ended up office based and wearing a suit so I’m good at sounding plausibly knowledgeable. If you try a bit in an unobtrusive area (or better yet send me your address and I can send you a test chunk of printed model to try) before you go slathering it all over your nice (& pricey) TSR.2

It’ll likely have an acrylic binder and very fine mineral filler so I’ve used it on both straight PLA and primed with either a Halfords acrylic or a Vallejo polyurethane primer with no issues and when dry it sands nicely smooth with fine sandpaper. It won’t react with the surface but seems to adhere well for my purposes. I used to work (starting off formulating industrial paints and developing resins) for the Dulux parent company and as they do Sikkens car refinish and loads of aerospace coatings I’m pretty much honour bound to use at least some portion of the corporate range for models.

ok, to touch on the original topic at hand. This is what I use for filling big areas on FDM prints https://www.toolstation.com/toupret-ready-mixed-fine-surface-filler/p10135 I use a smaller squeezy tube from the Dulux decorator's centre that stores better after opening.

That was my thinking

Neat, thanks! I’ve a 1/200 Tupolev Bear that I inherited part built with a couple of broken props. Might try following along these lines (albeit in Fusion) to make replacements

Dang! I thought you were going to link something cool and just building up the suspense

I didn’t quite follow how that worked (despite a few read throughs) You didn’t happen to take step by step exhaustively annotated screenshots did you?

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With the T-tail it looks from some angles like the Short SB5, in others like a mini-Javelin

I’ll second that - you must have it set up nicely to achieve sharp detail like that

I've had a bit more quiet contemplation and time to have a play with this so it now has legs and had a bit of a tidy up. Another one ready to test print (and I like this iteration of the design rather more than I did the first)

I'm a long way from being a computer expert - I was a scientist by training but always drew so I'm kind of learning as I go. today's revelation has been in how to add surface features like airbrakes and panel lines

Weather has been miserable so I cracked on this afternoon with reworking the AW.58 into the slightly larger tailed delta and reheated Sapphire engine development of the original design. Still needs wheels etc. but...

And...? you can't keep us on tenterhooks like this. If this works out will the Miles M.52 be making an appearance in the non-digital realm?

Sorry, my mistake rather than @Pouln's

No problem, you’re taking an item off my to-do list. Once I’ve got a real version in hand just drop me a line with your address (I probably owe @Aardvark one as well as a thanks for helping with the background info)

In desperate times I don’t think anyone does. The sacrifices and war crimes we’d hope a human in the loop would prevent have all (& worse) been done before AI was ever a glint an Babbage and Lovelace’s eyes

If you were a smaller nation with less resources then you’d likely be at a materiel and computation speed disadvantage. Where every fraction of a second is a tactical edge a big power might keep a person in the loop but a desperate smaller nation’s best chance to get an edge would be to cut the person out entirely