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biggtim

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  1. Don't get caught in a fire while you're there!!
  2. Just wondered how everyone on the left coast is faring during the wildfires. It's been pretty crazy here in Washington. The first major fire of the season started a few miles from home, the Evans Canyon fire, and burned 6 homes and 80k acres, but it's petering out finally. Our department was the initial response on it before the state got mobilized. I got to fight it for about 8 hours during a major wind driven flare up that took out all the homes. It was tough to watch them burn right next to me and not be able to do anything. No lives lost here, thankfully, but quite a few in other fires. Just seeing if y'all are ok. Tim
  3. Hope you had a good one, Mike! Sorry I missed it.
  4. Man, I struggle with those belts, too. So small and fiddly, whether they are RB or HGW. But light years better than the PE belts. I hate those so much, I'd rather cut my own out of paper than use them.
  5. Like it or hate it, I am an avid sniper, though I prefer to "buy it now" when the option is available. I don't get into bidding wars, though. I just log in and place my max bid 30 to 60 seconds before closing, and let it ride. I personally really like the ones with "make an offer" on them. You can get some decent deals that way. Tim
  6. Holy smoke, Ern!! Please let Karim know I'm thinking of him and glad his family is ok.
  7. I was working at 10 am, and for once, I'm glad I was.
  8. My wife thinks my stash of just under 30 kits is a silly waste of money, but she never gives me any crap about it, because I just use all you knuckleheads with huge stashes as the comparison. Plus, she is a serious bargain hunter, and in the last year I've made enough selling stuff on ebay to cover my model building purchases, so she can get behind that. She's really very supportive. She might even come to Nats next year with me.
  9. I'm not worried about that part of it, I'm up to the task. I just cant decide how bad I want to build it now. Plus, Ernie is right. I'm only ever going to build one, so which scheme should I do?? There is also the fact that I have too many builds ongoing...
  10. Kinda there, too, Ern. I've built two D.VIIs in my life - both wood. One kit, and one scratch. Ironically, I'm actually sort of intimidated by the WNW (fok) in my stash, especially now that it sells for 200+.
  11. Like I said, Joachim, that is fantastic!! Probably the best one of those I've seen built so far!
  12. Good question. That was a ton of work, and I'm not sure I want to do it again. Plus, I did it for LSP last time, and I KNOW I don't want to do two sets of shirts....
  13. I'll be booking this one for sure!!
  14. As I mentioned before, I have been looking for this Tiger kit for over a year now, finally found someone selling one on ebay, and with a ton of AM stuff to go with it, and at a healthy discount, so I pulled the trigger and bought it. I was excited when it showed up in 3 days, and it was everything I'd hoped for....except it was missing a critical sprue!! It was a used kit from someone clearing out their stash, so no problem, it happens sometimes. I let them know about it and the seller agreed to look for the missing sprue. A couple days pass, and I dropped them a note saying that I located replacement parts for about 25 bucks, and if they would be willing to refund that much, I'd buy the parts and be good to go. Very nice seller, great communication. To my utter shock, they did not refund the 25 bucks.......they refunded the entire amount!!! I sent a note and made them aware of the mistake, and I got a very nice note back saying that it was not a mistake. The seller explained that her husband had been an avid model builder, and had won many awards in the past, but was going through some sort of "mental decline" that prevented him from building anymore, so he asked her to sell off his collection. Occasionally parts go missing and he doesn't recall where they went. So she refunded the whole thing because she just wanted me to be happy with it. Needless to say, I was blown away at her generosity, and said that I would put in a plug on the forums and possibly help generate some more sales. She said they have a ton of other kits to get sold off, so please look them up on ebay and see if they have anything you might like, and maybe help support these awesome folks. SellerID is "sellingmymodels10". Thanks, Tim
  15. You create the model in software like Fusion 360 (what I use), Rhino, etc, then export it to an .STL file and open it in the slicing software, do the setup and then save it to a flash drive. Plug that into the printer, load it up, and start printing. Surprisingly, the cheapass slicing software that came with my printer does all of the supports for you, if you want it to. It's very simple and kind of clunky software, but it has worked flawlessly so far for me. The only thing you have to do is decide what position you want to part to print in (rotation, height, etc.) then tell it to add the supports. Set the layer thickness desired, and a few other settings, and you're done. You can manually do the supports, or adjust them after they are added, remove some, whatever. They can be thin, thick, different styles, etc. I had to print the camel cowl 5 or 6 times before I got it the correct size, the last one was the one I showed you. It actually became too large a diameter to fit within the print area lying flat, so by rotating it up like that, it fit and kept the supports from marring the outside surface. The supports actually break off quite easily, and usually leave a little bump that sands off without any trouble. Occasionally they will make a little dimple that must be filled. You generally need to prime and lightly sand the parts before use anyway to get rid of the moire pattern created by the layers, but it's much less noticeable with resin than the filament printers. So far, I'm really happy with the results I've been able to achieve with not much learning curve, though results probably vary from person to person.
  16. Yes, indeed! A couple of other members encouraged me to try and make a cannon nosed conversion for the trumpy 262, so I'm exploring how hard that might be. The gun breach was actually pretty straightforward, and the barrel is on it's way from Germany. The nose and removable panels are proving much more difficult to master. I may actually have to try modeling them in Fusion and printing them, but that would be a serious jump in complexity for me.
  17. As promised, here's some stuff I've printed: Cowl spacer and exhausts for Russian P-40 conversion: Cowling for 1/16 Sopwith Camel: And most recently a low resolution test print of a Mk214A 50mm Cannon for a secret project I am tinkering with: Definitely not the awesome stuff sluggo is doing, but I'm getting there. Tim
  18. I have an Anycubic Photon resin printer that I use to print model parts created in Fusion 360. I don;t ave time to post pics right now, but I can later. Still learning the software, but I've been very pleased with the print quality so far, as well as the cost and ease of use. I actually don't mind the regular resin that requires alcohol clean up, but I'm planning to try the water based stuff soon, too. Any recommendations on brand? I think the resin printers like the nice Creality you've got are the way to go for modelers. The resolution and material are perfectly suited for model parts, in my experience. I'll throw some pics on after work. By the way, your stuff is fantastic!!! Tim
  19. Already bought the Dragon, my friend, with lots of AM.
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