2021-03-17

3D-printed trucks - report

 This is my second report about my first test-3D print in

the material resin. Overall the models looks fine and the 

scale looks right. Most of the big trucks are downloaded

from the free-page Thinginverse and drawn in CAD and

the scale 1/200 and needed to be scaled up to 1/100.

My friend Adam (the printer) made an excellent job in

making the outcome right eventhough he had big problems

getting the wheels right on especially the GMC-trucks.

The details on these big trucks looks really good and for

me resin is the choice comparing to pla-thread.

The smaller models are also scaled and this was even 

harder to do but I calculated out the right length and

width to guide Adam and the outcome of these were even

better than the big trucks.

Very nice result but the downside for me was to cut loose

the models from the mould-extras and all the wheels of 

the BM-21-rocket-trucks were broken doíng so.

Some of the big trucks also cracked in the middle because

they were to thin to uphold the weight(drawn in a smaller scale).

The big trucks are no problem to fix but the smaller ones

are more tricky but I will manage this also. 

Adam also kindly send me the failed prints and these will 

be very nice "broken-down" models and parts of the

scenery playing the WW2-game Flames of war. 

https://www.thingiverse.com/

These are the models I have chosen to print:

Scale 1/100 (15mm)

gmc-cckw252-steelcab-closed-3 

kubelwagen-closed-2

m3a1-scoutcar-1

opel-blitz-maultier-covered-1-simple

jeep-closed-2 

kettenkrad-1 

1-100 ZIS-5 early closed-5 

1-100 ZIS-5-BZ tanker early -2 

1-100 ZIS-6 early-1 

STZ-5-closed-1 

voroshilovets closed-1 

Scale 1/285 (6mm)

Viggen 

MLRS

BM-21 

On the last pictures you can see that I have completed

my MLRS that I got for free but the tracked part were

missing and these looks very good and fits perfectly

together.

Next project will be to print my homemade

light cannons in the scale 1/100. A report is on

its way, Cheers and thankyou for reading my blog!:)



















2021-03-15

3D-printed trucks - testprint

 Visiting 3D-meetup here in Sweden two years ago

made me curious about start drawing models to

3D-print but the variety of printers are vast and I

am a novice in this area som I decided to test in a 

smaller scale before actually buying a printer of my

own. The CAD-work is not new for me because I

have been working with 3D-graphics for more than

15 years as an engineer within carpentry and interiors.

I decided to both test some models in the scale 6mm

and 15mm and I downloaded all the models for free

from Thinginverse. The models were drawn in various

scales but it was not hard to scale right.

The result was very good using resin but tricky to 

realease from the mould-extras. The printing of wheels

were especially hard and I need to fix this before

painting. I will use base-plates for all these models so

I think when finished and fixed they will look really good.

Next report I will go into detail on each model.