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You can follow along with my ongoing quest to design and print each of the different T-34 variants in this thread. To cut a long story short, I've got the early pre-war model with the short L-11 gun to a point where it's ready to become an actual build. Here's where it's at now; it's based on a Taigen chassis and everything in black is 3D printed. Once I've straightened out a few more issues, I'm planning on selling a limited run of these conversion kits.


Next up will be creating surface texture to tie the printed parts to the Taigen upper. Hopefully I'll be able to make more steady progress with this one!

The line to buy one forms behind me...lol

Great job Ram! Good to see you are feeling better.

Quality of those prints is amazing

I'm not seeing much green left! More like Taigen has molded a hull to support your superb components.

Stellar!

Mike.

Wow !

Thank you for the kind words, gents. I appreciate it!

I haven't made a start on texturing yet; we've been extremely busy at work lately and I've been butting my head against the wall trying to get the tyres sorted. I had a bit of an epiphany and realised I had to take a different approach, and finally started getting some good results.


It's a bit hard to tell when all of the resin is black, but the idlers have separate tyres now too.


This wraps up the running gear, I'm planning on reworking some of the drawings so I can print the various periscopes and vision blocks as separate pieces in clear resin.

The tires look amazing. Can you tell me what kind of clear resin you use? Does it not yellow over time?

Those tires are incredible!

A very belated thanks, fellas! Hard to believe the last six months have gone so quickly, things have been so busy with work I just haven't had the time, energy or enthusiasm to really get anything hobby-related done. I spent some time this weekend trying to remember where the hell I was up to and piece together various disparate prints. At some point, maybe shortly before Christmas, I tried opening the engine deck louvres and did such a messy hack job that I decided to print a replacement engine deck instead. I then figured I'd replace the hull roof entirely, since the fuel and suspension hatch covers on the Taigen upper are the wrong shape and size and in the wrong locations. There's really very little of it left at this point, and I probably ended up using over fifty dollars' worth of resin so that I wouldn't waste a fifty dollar Taigen hull. The risk I took was calculated, but man am I bad at maths!


I've got new mounting points for the rotation unit and Taigen mounting hooks, and there are stainless pins going through the Taigen hull into the reinforcing ribs.

Kaczor wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 9:43 amCan you tell me what kind of clear resin you use? Does it not yellow over time?

I've been using Siraya Tech Simple for these; just really basic stuff. It gets a faint blue-grey tint from the alcohol wash, since it picks up some of the pigments/dye from the other resins I use. These prints are over six months old and haven't yellowed yet:


I know that depending on the resin, leaving the parts in the sun for a few hours or heating them over 60°C can get some of the yellowing to fade.