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[DarrenParticipant Toowoomba Qld82 VH SS Commodore 89 Yamaha FZR1000 View build HERE Member since: March 4, 2015 Posts: 33]

it’s not car parts, but I’ll be building up a scale RC Huey Helicopter soon – long term project!
It’s around 1/10th scale.

Can’t seem to find pilots in the right scale, so was thinking about creating a couple of pilots with something like Daz 3D or Poser, export them in a 3D printer friendly format and find someone to print them for me.

Would you be interested in something like that ? What file formats can you handle ? 3DS ?
If you’re interested, when I model the pilots I can send you a file for a quote

cheers

Darren

• This reply was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by  Darren.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by  Darren.

[sands vsParticipant vs commodore View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 619]

Impressive job you did with the gauge holders, you should make the ones for the drivers top ac vent too.

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Anonymous wrote:

Just saw this. It’s a fantastic idea. I’m sure there are plenty of guys on this forum who would be very happy for you to make test pieces for them. Personally I’d be happy paying for a prototype. At the end of the day something that is 1 or 2 % from being perfect is much better than nothing at all. I’m sure we all know the feeling of knowing exactly what we want/need, but not being able to find/buy it! And it looks like the small things you have done for your Senator have turned out just fine. Good luck with this!

Cheers mate, I have been playing around in between doing the Kombi, driving the Senator and my daughters Hiace rebuild.  Once they are out of the way I plan on getting stuck into it a little more

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Darren wrote:

it’s not car parts, but I’ll be building up a scale RC Huey Helicopter soon – long term project! It’s around 1/10th scale. Can’t seem to find pilots in the right scale, so was thinking about creating a couple of pilots with something like Daz 3D or Poser, export them in a 3D printer friendly format and find someone to print them for me. Would you be interested in something like that ? What file formats can you handle ? 3DS ? If you’re interested, when I model the pilots I can send you a file for a quote cheers Darren

 

For sure mate.  It seems .STL is a pretty common format for the printing.  Although tbh as I have Inventor I can pretty well handle most formats.  Send me a pm when you have what you want and I will have a look at it.

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Btw, this is “Mike” a model I already have, he is able to be articulated in all joints, so I could maybe configure him into a pilots position if that works?  You would just need to give me an idea of some basic dimensions as i can make him scaled to any size.

[cava454Moderator 93 VR BT1 View build HERE Member since: February 20, 2015 Posts: 2 390]

Life size 3D printed Mirand Kerr with slight enhancements possible?

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Out of flexible rubber of course….

[cava454Moderator 93 VR BT1 View build HERE Member since: February 20, 2015 Posts: 2 390]

Seems like you have put more thought into this then me. I’m more the happy to test pilot the prototype.

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

sands vs wrote:

Impressive job you did with the gauge holders, you should make the ones for the drivers top ac vent too.

Yea was thinking about that.  For what size gauge do you think?

[DarrenParticipant Toowoomba Qld82 VH SS Commodore 89 Yamaha FZR1000 View build HERE Member since: March 4, 2015 Posts: 33]

I was thinking something more along the lines of this, in the correct pose of course
Is this model too complex to print ?

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Darren wrote:

I was thinking something more along the lines of this, in the correct pose of course Is this model too complex to print ? 

Tbh not sure, will depend on how big it is, happy to have a try if you have an STL file of it?

[DarrenParticipant Toowoomba Qld82 VH SS Commodore 89 Yamaha FZR1000 View build HERE Member since: March 4, 2015 Posts: 33]

it will be 1/10th scale so about 15-20cm high.

I haven’t got the model yet, still looking around for the right one, but that one is fairly close to what I’m looking at. The really fine details aren’t an issue.

I will send you a file once I decide with the one I’m going with, see what you think

cheers

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Lets have ago, if it works out ok we can come up with a price.  If not lets chalk it down to experience

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Any good?

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=35b131a660f7e6dabd09f234c619e6e3

[HoopstarParticipant AdelaideVK Calais View build HERE Member since: June 10, 2016 Posts: 48]

I love 3D printers.  The more you use them, the more you realise how you can use them.

Tonight I needed some intake manifold gasket ‘dowels’ for my injected 5 litre. Took me longer to load up my CAD software than actually design the part:

Because I was in a hurry, I did these at the lowest quality print (4 pieces took around 4 minutes):

Inserted in the heads:

Manifold down..

[sands vsParticipant vs commodore View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 619]

Looks good, did you make it thicker as well for strength or am I imagining it?

[HoopstarParticipant AdelaideVK Calais View build HERE Member since: June 10, 2016 Posts: 48]

It’s probably a touch thicker but honestly next time I’d increase the ‘tube’ thickness a little more (ie. reduce i.d.) since I ran a 1.5º taper over it’s length to aid insertion into the head.

That made the very top a little thinner than I would have liked which was compounded by the fast print speed.

No biggie since they served their purpose well for me. 

 

 

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Nice work, what material, looks like PLA?

[HoopstarParticipant AdelaideVK Calais View build HERE Member since: June 10, 2016 Posts: 48]

Formfutura ABS.  Prints pretty nicely

http://www.formfutura.com/formfutura-285mm-premium-abs-atomic-green.html

I’m moving over to their ApolloX material – an industrial-grade ASA.  Has high glass temps (>100ºC) and very good UV stability.

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Hi All, been pretty busy with Build Ninja, have come up with a few new designs, and also have a couple of others on the go.  Starting to get quite few out and installed too which is nice.  Take a look if you are after anything, and I am always up for custom stuff

https://www.buildninja.com.au/product-category/automotive/

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