Recent content by Heavens Eagle

I worked on one of those drafting tables for many years.

Famous last words. :wow:

Of course this will be all covered up with whatever in short order. It's the nature of flat surfaces in a hobby environment.

Here is a better answer. This is a watchmaker lathe. Mainly designed for very small parts up to small clocks. I can do larger plastic parts, but have to be very careful and even then if I do more than just shave off a little material it can totally stall the lathe, so no metal gun barrels. I...

That camo is so good that it hurts my eyes to look at it.

LOL! I am my own worst enemy for doing research, Saúl only helps to dig that rabbit hole deeper.

Nope, the watchmaker's lathe is just not up to doing something like that. It can do large plastic parts but the metal parts take a LOT more horsepower. Thing is a metal barrel of the size that this gun is would weigh quite a bit. The plastic one will work just fine.

If all these parts go into one big diorama it will be the size of one of Bob Letterman's builds.

Been there done that Tim. I bought a figure from China that when it came in was an awesome casting and everything I could have expected. Later on there was figure of the Gal Gaddot WW that I really liked and it was a horrible recast. Then I went to Wonderfest up in Louisville and learned about...

Here is a quick update on the progress of the lathe extension. It is about 70% done at this point with 4 small parts for the main unit and then I need to make 2 parts for the lengthened steady rest for gravers/ cutters. You can now see what I was envisioning in my head. This won't work for...

OK, thanks Tim! I am looking at a number of figures from Andy's. 3 are kits like the ones I got, the other 3 are quite a bit more expensive and I think resin printed specifically for the 251 kit I am building.

Cutting it apart into shorter sections would introduce all kinds of other problems that I won't go in to. I have the new jig about halfway done, and it is going to work just fine for this stuff. In addition it might also help with some other issues I have with on going short jobs from work...

Those track links are probably over an inch wide Paddy. It would take a LOT of paint to hide anything on them.

With 3D printing, parts count can be reduced and accurized to better than just with large parts counts. Eduard is doing this with their hybrid kits that they are starting to release. I expect that this is also what is going on here.