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mightypeesh

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  1. Great colour schemes, top work!!! 👍
  2. Great stuff Richard, looking forwards to seeing it progress!
  3. Its amazing isn't it! 🙂 I love what we can do now. The scale is about 1/8 - the size I based on measuring my colleagues head and the wingspans of the model and aircraft. The file is a .stl though, so you can scale him up or down a bit in the slicing software that you use if you want to. Cheers, Simon
  4. That looks fantastic, great paint job 👍👍👍. I love the effect on the tail, hope mine turns out so well 🤞
  5. Hi folks, thanks for the support. I have thought long and hard about making a batch of pilots to sell but am a bit reticent, as although I have sculpted the body and flying hat etc, the original head sculpt that I used is somebody else's work, downloaded for free. As they were generous enough to share their work I am going to do the same and attach the .stl file for you to print your own free copies. The file is a scan of the original which has the base that I sculpted it on attached to the bottom as a lip. Also it does not quite align with the Z-plane. I killed two birds with one stone and lowered the model in Cura to eliminate the base and give it a flat bottom 🙂. He was printed on the highest resolution with 5% infill and a brim without support. It is a great community on here and I get much enjoyment from reading it on pretty much a daily basis so am more than happy to give a something back.. All I would ask is that you do the same with the file and keep it not for profit if you do pass it on to fellow modelers please. pilot small.stl Looking forwards to seeing clones of 'Piglet' take to the skies. Cheers, Simon
  6. Hi Folks, Thanks for the positive comments! Got my paints out this weekend. I used Halfords grey primer, and then a mix (not together) of Tamiya, Humbrol and Citadel acrylics for the block colours. I then progressed onto System 3 acrylic artist paints to make up washes to blend it all together nicely. I am totally colour blind so I always need my wife on hand to make sure I have not strayed too far awry 🙂. I think he turned out well, the eyes are always a challenge, not too boss-eyed! The scan and print 3d printdid not do too bad a job on the detail also, though it would have been crisper - and a lot more expensive, if I had made a mold and re-cast it. He will look fine at 150ft in the air.......... Hope you like him, Cheers, Simon
  7. Looks great, top job - enjoy the maiden!!!
  8. Looks fantastic, well done!!!
  9. Hopefully I wont need so much with my bigger pack up front 🤞Looks great though Ron 👍
  10. Hi Folks. I have been messing around making a pilot using Sculpey (a polymer clay that you can bake in the oven to harden) and a bit of casting again. I used to try to sculpt the faces myself with varying results - some good, some horrific - faces really are not my forte! Recently I have been looking out for old toys with suitable sized heads to use as a starting point, and on this occasion I found a free online download STL from one of the sites that I could 3d print in the right scale to use. I think he is a action hero of some sort but I really could not tell you who! Because the modelling material I am using is to be baked in the oven I need to turn him into something a little more heat-proof so first I need a mold. A tube of cardboard was put around him and then casting silicone was poured around. In this case it is an odd colour because I only had a silicone designed for high temperatures to cast pewter and white metals into. Still does the job though! A day later and we have a mold and a copy of our little man. He was cast using Polyurethane fast casting resin which is mixed in two parts and sets really quickly. My bottles are way past there best ( it is normally whiter, but whilst it still works I will keep using it..... The resin is not strictly heat proof, but on experimentation I have found it to be good enough at the low temps that Sculpey needs to harden. First off I sculpted his headgear which I then baked for 15 minutes. This means I can handle the finished parts without squidging the previous detail. The clay sticks quite well to itself so I tend to build up in layers, baking in between stages. To save clay I use tin foil to make a rough body as a starting point and lay thin sheets of the sculpey over it... Then attach head and start dressing him... He is then baked again so I can then add his harnesses and more detail.... Finally he gets some goggles and a coat of primer to unify the different surfaces and to see how he looks. He is quite fragile at this point, especially the thin bits around his head as the resin of the head and the headgear do not bond together like the rest. I need to be careful not to knock him about until I have finished with him. In the past I have made another silicone mold of the pilot and then used expanding foam to cast them - extremely light and takes paint really well. This time though we have a new 3D scanner at work so I thought I would see if it was any good so I could convert the data into a 3d printable form to see how detailed/heavy he would turn out...... Not too bad as it happens! 🙂. Not as detailed as a silicone mold would be - softer features than the original but I don't mind that too much. The print only weighs 15 grams too, which I am pleased about. I will have a go at painting him and see what I think. I might still make a mold, but silicone is expensive stuff these days! I think he has a bit of a film-star look about him! Since printing he has now become known as Piglet due to a misnamed 3d file - it was meant to be 'Pilot'...... 😀 Hope you enjoyed the process, will post again soon, Cheers, Simon
  11. Glad the fan is being used! I was wondering that. If it is a problem I will just get some slightly smaller packs! Cheers, Simon
  12. Great bit of weathering! Need to pull my finger out and get on with mine 🙂
  13. Hi Folks - after an initial flurry at Christmas getting the airframe etc built I have now slowed down to my own pace - I will get there, but not in a hurry 🙂. I am using Radiant 4S 4000 packs as they are already in my box, but they do not quite fit in the space provided. I took Richards advice and removed part of one of the formers that he indicated in his excellent build in 'The Big Question'. I also added a battery tray to keep it all in place. It worked out quite well with the ESC fitted alongside the battery nicely. Nice and snug! Whilst fitting the servos in the fuse I noticed the balsa each side of the bay were flexing quite a bit, so I added some fillets from scrap to reinforce the area in addition to the bits I had already inserted. Not much weight but seems a lot stronger for my clumsy hands! I have been working on a pilot and a bit of cockpit detail and will post again soon when I get them sorted. Cheers, Simon
  14. Hi Folks, just a quick one here. I found that once I had fitted the motor and speed controller to the fuse that it kept rolling around the workbench, driving me mad and making it annoying to work on. I do have a stand but it takes up a lot of room on the bench. My solution is a hacked around bit of cardboard box masking-taped on - sorted, makes life much easier! Cheers, Simon
  15. Hi Ron, great videos, thanks for the ones on covering esp 👍👍👍. Cheers, Simon
  16. Ha, I was having a quick look at work and thought lipoman had jumped forwards really quickly! 😀 Note to self - pay attention! 🙂
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