Stolzdorf. My buildings/battlefield/gadgets.

[HERMAN BIX]

Jesus Christ, Gary! That's stunning! Do you have a link or video of that wood printer in action? Im more than impressed!

Too right Mr '52, those windows are extraordinary

[Max-U52]

Rad, I can post a video after work, but it's just a standard creality cr-10 3D printer, using wood filament. To be totally truthful, it's actually a composite filament that's made up of 70% PLA and 30% wood infill. At first I thought it wouldn't be very good since it's only 30% would, but once I tried it I really liked it. When you work with it, like sanding and carving, it acts more like wood than plastic. I think it's really great for printing crates because not having to paint them is a real time-saver. I just print them and give them a black wash and call it a day. In Cura I can make the crates any size I want, all I need is the three dimensions in millimeters. The custom crates I made to hold the electronics and the speaker for my Q60 worked out just perfect.

On Black Friday I ordered a second 3D printer, this one a DPL resin printer. I should get much better print quality but I won't be able to print items as large. However, for things like tires and figures the resin printer should give me much, much better quality. I'd really like to find some STL files for a driver, or even just the body. I can always get heads from verlinden. So, if anyone has any decent STL files for truck drivers, or any other figures that you'd like to see printed, please let me know.

[43rdRecceReg]

Rad, I can post a video after work, but it's just a standard creality cr-10 3D printer, using wood filament. To be totally truthful, it's actually a composite filament that's made up of 70% PLA and 30% wood infill. At first I thought it wouldn't be very good since it's only 30% would, but once I tried it I really liked it. When you work with it, like sanding and carving, it acts more like wood than plastic. I think it's really great for printing crates because not having to paint them is a real time-saver. I just print them and give them a black wash and call it a day. In Cura I can make the crates any size I want, all I need is the three dimensions in millimeters. The custom crates I made to hold the electronics and the speaker for my Q60 worked out just perfect.

On Black Friday I ordered a second 3D printer, this one a DPL resin printer. I should get much better print quality but I won't be able to print items as large. However, for things like tires and figures the resin printer should give me much, much better quality. I'd really like to find some STL files for a driver, or even just the body. I can always get heads from verlinden. So, if anyone has any decent STL files for truck drivers, or any other figures that you'd like to see printed, please let me know.

Amazing, nonetheless, Gary. By the way, '30% would' might benefit from an auto-corrector. Then again, if it's not correcting an actual word, it won't bother with the substitution...
As for the wood filament, it's interesting that it doesn't begin to smoulder as the mix heats up. Anyway, it's good to see you back in the avant garde of this development in the hobby

[Max-U52]

Yeah, Roy, I'm sure you figgered out from the other thread I was using my phone for that post, and it comes up with the weirdest stuff. If I want to tell you I'll be at Marisa's house it says I'll be at moroso sauce.

The print nozzle is set for 220 C when I print wood, which I think is just below smoldering temp. Ray Bradbury reminded us all that book paper ignites at 451 F so at 428 F we're getting close. And you ain't seen nothin' yet, my friend, as I have a resin printer on the way and I think that's going to do some amazing stuff. If only I could find an stl file for a decent truck driver!!

So here's a video, Rad, hope you find it informative.

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[43rdRecceReg]

Yeah, Roy, I'm sure you figgered out from the other thread I was using my phone for that post, and it comes up with the weirdest stuff. If I want to tell you I'll be at Marisa's house it says I'll be at moroso sauce.

The print nozzle is set for 220 C when I print wood, which I think is just below smoldering temp. Ray Bradbury reminded us all that book paper ignites at 451 F so at 428 F we're getting close. And you ain't seen nothin' yet, my friend, as I have a resin printer on the way and I think that's going to do some amazing stuff. If only I could find an stl file for a decent truck driver!!

So here's a video, Rad, hope you find it informative.

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Oddly enough, I was thinking of Fahrenheit 451 when the smouldering notion came to mind...all those books going up in smoke. Great book and great film.
If I weren't so bogged down with competing projects (music included), I might get to plug my printer in for the first time; if only to check that it actually works! here it is when I finished assembling it over a year ago now:

Hictop 3D printer

As it's already over a year old, it must be heading for obsolescence already I could do with printing bits for a Comet project; but printing ammo crates from simulated wood, and more besides,
should give extra impetus. Now back to Rad's smoulder-free carpentry

[Rad_Schuhart]

I did some small progress in my battlefield.

The statue will be in the center of a square in my scale city. Now it has a pedestal. I gave that concrete texture to the end (not showed in the photos) It will be painted in grey, and then I will make a iron croos with plasticard, and also will put a plate with 1914-1918 or something like this. I think it looks great.

I keep also working in my last tank. Once I finish it, there will be no more. My armored division will be finished (But I am only lacking a 222) Im still far from finishing it. Turret numbers, cross, to pain the nets, to tie them...

[Marco Peter]

I...I keep also working in my last tank. Once I finish it, there will be no more....

...said no real RC Tanker ever!

[Rad_Schuhart]

I...I keep also working in my last tank. Once I finish it, there will be no more....

...said no real RC Tanker ever!

LOL
Nah, seriously, I think I have more than enough. And I have no other tankers nearby...
PIII, PIV, King Tiger, Sherman, and a static T34 and Renault FT 17 and Type 94.

The time and money spent in buying and specially in fine tunning the runners is so big, that some time ago I decided to stop making more, and I even sold some of them... Also I think I got the models I really liked, so unless something very special shows up, I am done... (The 222 does not count, I will get one for sure)

I really want to focus in buildings, making a scale city as detailed as possible. And also to finish the warbird that is costing me the life, lol.

[Rad_Schuhart]

Well, at this point I am really planning how to build my own battlefield. Due to bad weather in spring here (almost hurricanes) I think I will build most of the buildings in a spare room in the basement, and then to go to the garden when needed.

One of the concerns I had was how to have sounds/music in the buildings in my way (the cheapest way)and last night I had the idea... To use bluetooth!

So I need to grab this board that is worth about one pound free shipping: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Bluetoo ... 1bce8fcf85


To power it, and to connect a speaker. Then, from the mobile phone I can send the sounds/ambient noises/artillery strike/cows roar/machine gun/whatever I can imagine to the building in the battlefield.

So it is a nice and cheap idea, dont you think?

[Will01Capri]

Rad, all these crates, as well as the windows and doors, are wood, printed on my 3D printer. I agree that working with real wood is a joy in itself, but for some fine detail stuff the printer is my best bet. I doubt I could produce a wood window frame like these, with my limited skill set. For those that have the talent to craft something like that from actual wood, more power to them, but I really love the fact that technology allows me to cheat!



The windows and doors are the finish as it comes off the printer, and the crates have been treated with a coat of Flory/Promodeller black wash. That's one thing I really love about the wood prints, they don't have to be painted, just a quick wash, and that's a huge time saver for my lazy ass.

Damn they look good!