3d Printing

[Weaver]

[Martin H]

works for me

[kerick]

I want one!

[NARSES2]

Me to 

[van883]

3D printed missiles form High Planes

http://www.hyperscale.com/2014/reviews/kits/hpa072031reviewmd_1.htm

[Gondor]

3D printed missiles form High Planes

http://www.hyperscale.com/2014/reviews/kits/hpa072031reviewmd_1.htm

Nice 

Gondor

[kitnut617]

1/72 Britannia u/c, actually for the Canadair CP-107 Argus but they're the same.  You get four propellers for the R-3350's that the Argus used too.

http://www.coopersmodels.com/catalog/item/8862503/10001864.htm

Got a couple of the sets already but they're a bit expensive though.

[NARSES2]

3D printed missiles form High Planes

http://www.hyperscale.com/2014/reviews/kits/hpa072031reviewmd_1.htm

Look good. I wonder if some of our Czech friends will start using the method ?

[Aircav]

I know that MDC use a 3D printer for their masters, Ti's the future.   

[zenrat]

In the future you won't buy a kit you'll download the files to print one (either from the Airfix website or from pirate bay).
Whiffers will be masters of merging files.
ericr will be 3d scanning his neighbours pets and then adding wings.
Kit will be digitally stretching the wings of everything before printing them.
And my stash instead of filling up shelves will fill up hard drive space.

Re printing masters for resin casting, it's done a fair bit in the model car world.  Wheels especially.

[PR19_Kit]

In the future you won't buy a kit you'll download the files to print one (either from the Airfix website or from pirate bay).
Whiffers will be masters of merging files.
ericr will be 3d scanning his neighbours pets and then adding wings.
Kit will be digitally stretching the wings of everything before printing them.
And my stash instead of filling up shelves will fill up hard drive space.

Re printing masters for resin casting, it's done a fair bit in the model car world.  Wheels especially.

The future is ALMOST here guys!

I love it, a Whiffer's paradise, as there'd be none of those 'Oh ******, this nose is too wide for that fuselage!' moments, you'd just be able to merge one with the other before it existed in hardware form.

It could presage the end of putty sales and even of PSR work.

[Rheged]

The future is ALMOST here guys!

It could presage the end of putty sales and even of PSR work.

The end of PSR means the end of Madame grouching at me because of the dust it raises.  Huzzah!!

[NARSES2]

It could presage the end of putty sales and even of PSR work.

Yup in the same way that some bright spark suggested the paperless office a few years ago.....it will never happen.

"Luddites of the World Unite, before the Technocrats take it over" 

Must admit it's extremely interesting and it's come a long way since I first saw a working 3D printer in the London's Science Museum a couple of years ago. That was the trip where me and Young Nick got a couple of kids in trouble for our actions 

As far as I know they are even doing it with metals now ?

[Hobbes]

3D printing has a long way to go before you can dispense with PSR and putty. Even the best printers leave discernible layers or other patterns that have to be smoothed out to get a model-worthy finish.
3D printing for metals is being done in two ways:
1. sintering, ie fusing small grains of metal together.
2. a two-step process where the printer creates a mould that is used for casting.

[scooter]

It could presage the end of putty sales and even of PSR work.

Yup in the same way that some bright spark suggested the paperless office a few years ago.....it will never happen.

A few years ago?  The DoD was talking about going paperless ten years ago.  And, as we can see, it's never happened.

Of course, it does seem to work in the medical field, without the need for PSR