discussion The New Boy

[Gern]

Some beautiful builds there Nick. Looking forward to seeing more.

 

[Ian M]

Some great looking models there Nick. With your broad taste I am sure you will fit in here.

Love the MC looks real.

 

[Dave Ward]

Nick,
a wide range of lovely models! Welcome to the forum - loads of friendly like-minded modellers. Any questions? - ask away - any tips? post them up.
I'm in the process of 'mastering' ( ha! ) 3D FDM printing, a time consuming process, which interferes with my benchtime
Dave

 

[scottie3158]

Nick,
A very warm welcome from me too. Some seriously nice builds.

 

[johnm93]

Hi all, just joined the forum so thought I would say hello. Life-long model builder (with a few gaps!) and having a slightly more serious go at it now I'm semi retired. I taught myself CAD (and now CAM) so using this to make a few bits.

I'm focusing on 1/8th and 1/12th cars at the moment but my interests are many and varied including wooden ships, many, many aircraft (my first love) and plenty of stuff in between. Here's a taster :smiling3:

The Brough looks like a real bike...!

 

[Tworrs]

Hi Nick and welcome, some lovely models there.

 

[Guest]

Welcome Nick , some seriously good modelling there.

 

[nickedw]

HI again Nick my tomcat is a trumpy super tomcat but can i get away with doin it in jolly rogers colours ?

I did battle with the old 1/32 Tamiya F14 some years ago and disappeared down a rabbit hole correcting and detailing so never finished, here’s some old fotos

i didn’t have any modern kit then, so it’s all scratch built, even with a crack at (nasty) home-made photo etch!

 

[nickedw]

Nick,
a wide range of lovely models! Welcome to the forum - loads of friendly like-minded modellers. Any questions? - ask away - any tips? post them up.
I'm in the process of 'mastering' ( ha! ) 3D FDM printing, a time consuming process, which interferes with my benchtime
Dave

Hi Dave, I went down the FDM route myself as I was initially scared of resin. Honestly, and please don’t be offended, but don’t bother with FDM for modelling, get yourself a little elegoo Mars or similar and you wont look back.
The stuff I get off my machines is at 20 microns resolution and indistinguishable from injection moulding in terms of surface finish and detail is well beyond anything mouldIng can achieve.

here’s a few straight out of the washer to give you an idea.

Just to push the boundaries here are some 1/12th scale instrument needles I printed recently

 

[Dave Ward]

Hi Dave, I went down the FDM route myself as I was initially scared of resin. Honestly, and please don’t be offended, but don’t bother with FDM for modelling, get yourself a little elegoo Mars or similar and you wont look back.
The stuff I get off my machines is at 20 microns resolution and indistinguishable from injection moulding in terms of surface finish and detail is well beyond anything mouldIng can achieve.

here’s a few straight out of the washer to give you an idea.

Just to push the boundaries here are some 1/12th scale instrument needles I printed recently

Nick,
I live in a mid-floor flat, and the fumes & toxic resin, along with the post-processing & curing, is something that isn't really viable - if I had a garage, or shed, yes, I'd be resin printing. As it is, I'm working on the FDM!
Cheers Dave

 

[nickedw]

Nick,
I live in a mid-floor flat, and the fumes & toxic resin, along with the post-processing & curing, is something that isn't really viable - if I had a garage, or shed, yes, I'd be resin printing. As it is, I'm working on the FDM!
Cheers Dave

Fair point, it’s not nice stuff you’re quite right. you’re getting some great results with FDM looking at your thread in fairness, great work.

 

[boatman]

I did battle with the old 1/32 Tamiya F14 some years ago and disappeared down a rabbit hole correcting and detailing so never finished, here’s some old fotos

i didn’t have any modern kit then, so it’s all scratch built, even with a crack at (nasty) home-made photo etch!

Cheers Nick for the pics but why did you not finish the plane as if i build a kit then no matter how bad it is i will build it to completion so was your tomcat a trumpy kit ? an in my opinion your pics build look great
chrisb

 

[Nicko]

Wow - those engine parts are some seriously impressive prints!

(another) Nick

 

[nickedw]

I seem to have got myself a bit of ‘CAD bloke’ reputation already, so I’ve just put a few (non-CAD!) builds up in the completed sections to try and overcome this grave injustice

Arizona
Brough Superior
Falcon


thanks for all the kind comments, welcome and support folks.

 

[adt70hk]

A belated welcome Nick. Great builds. As Ian said the MC looks real!!

ATB.

Andrew

 

[Tim Marlow]

It’s alright fellah….I don’t think your a cad LOL…..

 

[nickedw]

It’s alright fellah….I don’t think your a cad LOL…..

Now I never said that, me and Terry Thomas go back a long way. I say!