tomhugill wrote:Have you ever used 3d printed parts Iain?
Talk to the likes of Alwyn, Wibbly, woz etc if working with 3d printed isn't manual.
Hell I can attest it's nothing like working with a plastic kit. Whilst print qualities always improving, clean up of parts requires proper modelling skill. As does putting the thing together.
This whole it's only scratch building if it's from styrene with a knife with my own hands is pointless modelling elitism.
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Agreed, Tom. Scratchbuilding is really a very loose term. Just for example, take the painball system I put in the 1/6 hetzer. I custom made the frame for the trunion, machined the trunion for elevation and traverse, modified a paintball gun, had some lines custom made, and used just about any other tool I could think of to get the job done, but is it not still a scratchbuilt paintball cannon? It definitely wasn't a kit, and I think that's the deciding factor. I made the whole thing from bits and pieces. With the 3D printer it's just a lot easier to make bits and pieces. Take this truck for example (which still has a long way to go)
Pretty much everything you see except the steering wheel and the headlights was 3D printed with a roll of filament and the help of a very talented and generous fellow modeler. I would definitely call this a scratchbuild, though I suppose it could be called a 3D printed model, but it definitely wasn't a kit. It was basically some files on the computer and a roll of weed whacker line, but now it's a truck. A WC-51, to be precise.
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