My first 3d-printed buildings

 During the summer I surfed into the web-page Thinginverse to

check if anybody had made some 3d-models to be used as buildings

in the 6mm-scale (1/300). I found some interessting to be used as

smalltown buildings in my Sweden 1985-cold war-project.

The stl-files looked nice and this first 3d-printing was also a 

test to find out what to do and what was not adviceable for future

projects. I contacted my friend Mathias and only several days later

the package arrived. My friend also added drain-holes for the

models to leak the fluid resin-leftovers but the holes was to shallow

and only a small amount of the resin leaked and therefore I was

forced to make new and bigger holes to empty the models otherwise

they risked to crack. The models leaked for 3 days but now they are o.k.

Important to know is that always use rubber-gloves to prevent the 

resin to get in contact of the human skin before the harden-process is 

over. If you don´t use gloves and get in contact you risk to get a head-

ache or sick. I very useful test and now I know what to draw and how to 

make my own printable 3d-houses. I will make my 3d-buildings with an  

open compartment. I will also publish my 3d-stl files here on this blog

for anyone to copy when they are finished. To print figures in this scale is

not adviseable in my opinion. Have a nice day!

   

Housefinds in the 6mm-scale

 This summer me and my family spent most of the

time in a small cabin in the woods waiting for the

pandemic to fade away and our new house to be built.

One of the exceptions was a visit to a outdoor second-

hand-market. It was a nice break to visit this market and

I found some very cheap but also very useable houses

to fit the 6mm-scale (1:300). The price was only 0.5 to

1 Euro each and that is very good pricing in my opinion.

I found 3 houses that I bought but the biggest was donated 

to one of my daugther to be used in "other" projects. :)

The 2 remaining looks very nice and are both prepainted

and looks to come from a range that I have bought earlier.

Initially I bought my first houses to be used in the 15mm-

scale but they didn´t fit but to the 6mm-scale they are spot

on. My oldest houses in my collection can be seen on

the two pictures in the very end of this report. 

I will not use these house-models to a swedish setting

but for a European theatre I think they will do just fine.

On 2 of the pictures I have placed a Centurion MBT to 

represent the scale. 

M1 Abrams leads the way

 I am back!!! I have never been "away" from my blog in

my thoughts but building a new house certainly keeps

you busy and on top of this I am father of 4 children

and working full time... :)

During my absence I have been thinking of my big

cold war 1985 project. My friend Michael in the U.K

sent me about 50 extra M1 Abrams-turrets for free and

my task was to complete these MBT´s.

Working as a engineer and with CAD on a daily basis I

made some simple models to represent the chassis in

the 1/285-scale (6mm). The result was great and my

other friend Mathias helped me with the 3d-prints.

Now I have a very strong force of 46 M1 Abrams to 

meet the Red storm from the east. 

My plan is to paint and also base these models. The

camo will be woodland because of the european 

setting. Vey nice addition indeed!

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!:)