seiran01 Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 ... is that before long you have a 1/32 scale Ki-98! A friend and I have designed this from scratch with the hope of making it into a full kit. No plans to sell it but just to see if we can do it. The tail booms are printing right now, and then the detail stuff can start getting developed once we know the airframe part breakdown is good. Guys, words can’t describe how excited I am to have this plane in large scale! 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smitty44 Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 How cool is that! Do you have much experience with computers and programs your using to do all of this Mike, or are you learning along the way? How I would love to just have the basic skills to print odds and ends. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 This is the future of model building. Way to go Mike ! Ki-98 is pretty rare in any scale 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiran01 Posted June 26, 2019 Author Share Posted June 26, 2019 Thanks guys. Yes, for the most part we're learning along the way. Likely will use parts robbed from a j2m (prop and some cockpit internals) and me262 (metal gear from the trumpy kit) to help this one along. Anyone who isn't Ernie want to guess the next project? He knows too much. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 I am definitely in on this Mike ! Also a Betty ?....harv 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smitty44 Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 Vampire? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackster Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 Wow is that printing in resin Mike? The only 3d printers i have seen use spools of plastic wire. Cheers Kev 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sluggo Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 1:24 B-58 Hustler. Anycubic Photon S eh? I'm seriously considering one. What's you opinion of it? I have a modded up CR-10S currently but it's pushed about as far as it can be. My next rig will not be a filament printer. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiran01 Posted June 27, 2019 Author Share Posted June 27, 2019 Well, no, the Photon S is my friend's that I'm borrowing to set up and speed up the printing of the plane, my one is a regular Photon. Been having difficulty getting prints to stick to the build plate with the S, and as of right now there is no firmware upgrade for the S to add the anti-aliasing that my standard one was upgraded to last month. So right now, the "standard" Photon is hands down the way to go for quality of the print resolution. Kev, yes this is a resin one. Whatever designs I'm doing, they're going to be in 1/32. I did think about a B-58 briefly, but that's not in the top ten for full aircraft kits to develop. Vampire/Venom would have been near the top of the list but once LEM announced they're doing the vampire (which will almost certainly need detailed cockpit and gear well...), they dropped off my must-design list. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Clunkmeister Posted June 27, 2019 Administrators Share Posted June 27, 2019 Mike, I’m super excited about the future here, my friend! Some really cool things in the works, and I really look forward to see what comes of it all. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sluggo Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 I have a young guy that works for me that has a regular Photon. It prints really nice parts. I am really looking forward to the evolution of this project. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiran01 Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share Posted June 28, 2019 Thanks guys, I’m excited too! The projects queued up are all 1/32 Korean War/Cold War (yes, the Arrow and Clunk are very high on that list) and RNZAF. The next ones we will work on are hush hush for now but are long overdue in any scale, and I’ve just started working separately on a Lancaster B.Mk.II conversion and am planning a Lancastrian nose/tail cone (for Ernie?) and Lincoln conversion for myself. Announcement coming soon from a real resin manufacturer using one or two of my component designs too, this is something I’m really, really excited for :-D Guys remind me to bring my Ki98 to the Nats... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 Awesome ! Dont forget to bring the KI98 !!!!....harv 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smitty44 Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 Fury!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiran01 Posted June 29, 2019 Author Share Posted June 29, 2019 A water sabre? Maybe, but not yet 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 Very cool Mike, what is the software you’re using? My guess would be an Autodesk of some flavour........ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiran01 Posted June 29, 2019 Author Share Posted June 29, 2019 Using Fusion360, yes, autodesk product. If you sign up as a hobbyist the product is free after the trial ends 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikester Posted June 29, 2019 Members Share Posted June 29, 2019 Very cool! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 2 hours ago, seiran01 said: Using Fusion360, yes, autodesk product. If you sign up as a hobbyist the product is free after the trial ends Thanks Mike, lucky enough to have access to all Autodesk products at work.......... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrankyCrafstman Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Hey Mike What wojld really be nice is some 1/32 scale support vehicles. Tow tractor, trucks, jeep mavbe a staff car. All the little support carts and trolleys etc. ...etc. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiran01 Posted July 9, 2019 Author Share Posted July 9, 2019 Agreed on those! But I'm not going to be the one to design them 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrankyCrafstman Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Yup...printing them is varily easy, it's designing them that's the hard part. How do I know you ask, 35 years as a design engineer the last 15 years designing on Unigraphics NX. Ron G 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 On 6/28/2019 at 5:28 PM, seiran01 said: (yes, the Arrow and Clunk are very high on that list) I can't wait for either one of these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiran01 Posted July 10, 2019 Author Share Posted July 10, 2019 Yeah me too Carl! Got the last major airframe parts printed today, man we are proud of this as a first effort. Prop is from a Hase j2m, a few major cockpit parts will come from the j2m as well. Im making this as an in-flight display now with a ZM pilot looking over his shoulder, so we have opted to not go out of our way adding pit details. This new approach is so that we can start on the next project which will be a conversion for a plane we both love, and it’ll be done to fit kits in 32nd, 48th and 72nd with a goal that it *could* be a product made available for sale. The conversions will require a bunch of new cockpit parts as well as major (yet simple) fuselage and cowl modifications. Anyone wanna hazard a guess what it might be? I won’t give any hints or answers 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Seafire 47 please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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