I hadn’t built a quick fun model in years, completed in a weekend this was my entry in the “Build a Turd” challenge posted on the Fine Scale Modeler forums.
Link to project page.
Tamiya 1/35 scale German Halftrack Hanomag Sdkfz 251/1
Introducing my 1/450 scale IJN Mogami project page
Completed shortly after USS Helena CL50 and using all the same tricks, my IJN Mogami project was a fun and easy build. Like Helena, it was created using both a Creality Ender 3 Pro filament printer and an LD-002r resin printer.
My First Elegoo Saturn Project
It was a long time coming but I finally completed my first large, resin only project, using my new Elegoo Saturn 3D printer. Follow the link to USS Tigrone‘s project page for details and lots of print and build pictures.
Update: To see my most ambitious Elegoo Saturn project, check out Charles Martel
My m26 Pershing is complete!
Posted: Jan 1, 2021.
Happy New Year everybody!
My WW2 US m26 Pershing heavy tank project is complete!
I’m very happy with the Blender design and my Creality Ender 3 Pro & LD-002r 3D printers did a great job rendering the parts for this project. Assembly and painting went well and tricking her out and weathering her was a blast.
I’m totally remembering why my 15 year old self loved building armor 🙂
Check out the m26 Pershing project page for all details and pictures.
US Pershing Heavy Tank, Assembled and Primed
Posted: 12/23/2020
The hard parts are done, now my favorite aspect of model building starts, the finish painting and weathering.
If I ever make this model again I’ll definitely make some design changes. shown is my third turret design and I’m still not 100% happy with it. Also missed a flaring out of the tread covers on the rear insides. The treads and wheels were a pain to assemble and I wasn’t able to pull off functional treads as I had hoped, ended up gluing them all together, oh well, in a larger scale it would have worked!
All in all though, I like the looks of her so far.
Update: 1/1/2021
My m26 Pershing is now complete, visit the new project page for more details and the finished model pictures.
M26 Pershing Project, 3D printed parts using Creality Ender 3 Pro and LD-002r printers
Posted: 12/21/2020
Printing for this project went smoothly, even though the LD-002r bits were printed in my unheated shed with temps in the mid to upper 30s. The turret shown is my 3rd printed – due to poor designs on my part and no fault of the printer. The first just looked too fat and the second one’s rear extension was all wrong. As I mentioned in an earlier post much of the hull assembly is already done so, initial build pictures may be up before Christmas.
Update: 1/1/2021
My m26 Pershing is now complete, visit the new project page for more details and the finished model pictures.
Blender M26 Pershing
Posted: 12/19/2020
I’ve been working on my M26 Perching design sporadically since I finished the King Tiger. Every time I thought I was done I’d find a picture online that told me I wasn’t. This incarnation, while nowhere near perfect, I feel I can live with. I find designs in armor scales need to be more precise than those of ships. Small errors and intentional design simplifications are hardly noticeable in 1/450 scale but seem glaringly obvious in 1/35.
Most of the parts are now printed. As with my latest ship models I used both my Ender 3 Pro and LD-002r printers on this project. With winter here to stay, I won’t be using the LD-002r again till it warms up. Much to my surprise, I was able to keep on printing with it out in the tool shed, while outside temps were only in the upper 30’s. So if you have a garage (and a sensitive spouse) you’ll probably still be able to print year round – even if you live up north.
Much of the assembly is also complete, so more posts are sure to come.
Update: 1/1/2021
My m26 Pershing is now complete, visit the new project page for more details and the finished model pictures.
LD-002r Printed Fine Detail Parts for 1/450 Scale WW2 Warship Models
Posted:11/3/2020
Because a picture is worth 1000 words, text for this post will be brief!
The ability to easily create accurate, detailed, replacement parts for model kits is something I’ve wanted to be able to do ever since I started work on my Hasegawa USS Missouri.. If you’ve read some of my other LD-002r posts you may have seen me struggle to get consistent results with high detail. Well I finally feel I’ve got a good grasp on what the Creality LD-002r 3D printer can do and how to go about doing it. In short I’m in scale model heaven!
And just for the fun of it, some close up pictures of an old favorite of mine: the US 40mm quad Bofors AA gun mount.
This post was a long time in the making – I’d intended to do multiple posts of the various objects but time got away from me, so here they all are in one big exposé. However, while there may be plenty of LD-002r output pictures, this post is short on “how to” information, you can find quite a bit of that in my Creality LD-002r First Print Examples, Experiences, Fails post.
American WWII Light Cruiser USS Helena CL 50, LD-002r and Ender 3 Pro 3D printed in 1/450 Scale
8/30/2020 I’ve added a new project page for my latest creation using my LD-002r and Ender 3 Pro 3D printers, the USS Helena CL 50.
Nothing Says Happy 5Oth, Like An LD-002r Created, Pole Dancing Unicorn, Cupcake Topper!
A close friend of ours was having the big Five-Oh in the middle of a global pandemic…
You might ask: What could be done to turn that frown upside down?
Answer: A pole Dancing Unicorn Themed, Social Distancing, Mask Wearing, Cupcake Birthday Party of Three!
We really did try…
The good news (to my loyal ScaleModelGuy readers anyway) was that the LD-002r 3D printed, Pole Dancing Unicorn Cupcake Topper came out Great!
This is the first, normal-ish, design I’ve printed on my Creality LD-002r LCD printer and both it and Chitu Box performed perfectly – first time.
I’ve suspected most of the issues you can read about in my other LD-002r related posts and project pages, were related to the extremely fine filigree nature of the detail present in my 1/450 scale model warship designs, seems I was right. The fact that I’ve been able to coax excellent prints out of them anyway, with such an inexpensive printer, pleases me to no end.
PS: Happy Birthday Amy!