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  • #14950
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    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

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    #14952
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    Impressive job you did with the gauge holders, you should make the ones for the drivers top ac vent too.

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    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 :good:

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    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.

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    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.

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

    #14968
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    Out of flexible rubber of course….

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

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    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?

    #14988
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    I was thinking something more along the lines of this, in the correct pose of course
    Is this model too complex to print ?

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    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?

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    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

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

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    #21290
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    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..

    #21291
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    Looks good, did you make it thicker as well for strength or am I imagining it?

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    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.  :thumbs-up:

     

     

    #21294
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    Nice work, what material, looks like PLA?

    #21314
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    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.

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    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 :good:

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

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