nightshiftmodeller

How I spent the weekend

Added 2020-11-09 22:27:12 +0000 UTC

Hello my friends, sorry for dropping off the face of the earth over the weekend! The weather turned beautiful, it was cold but sunny, so I spent most of it in the middle of nowhere basically😆To make the most of the time, I was running the 3D printer every day. First of all I printed some German helmets and grenades which I found on Thingiverse. I might hang a couple of them on the Jagdtiger because they look pretty nice! I'm not sure if the grenades are in scale, even though I scaled them down according to actual measurements, but they still seem quite long to me.

Anyway, the other round of printing was about 1/200 WW1 tanks. These are also on Thingiverse for free and they look pretty awesome 😁Unfortunately this is where the printer reaches its limits and even if they may not seem like it, the only successful print is the FT-17. The K-Wagen came out the worst with a very bad shift in print layers in its upper half. It got me into some researching though and I learned new stuff about how to print better models, and also got a better idea about what's on the market these days 😊So I'll be probably getting a new, better printer sooner or later. Right now I'm torn between Anycubic Photon Mono SE and Phrozen Sonic Mini 4K. Both around 300€ pricetag, but I'm not going to buy anything on a whim just yet. The point is, painting these tanks would be a lot of fun, of course if they printed without any defects :)