Hello everyone I'm new here. I was on the RR-L forum before it fold up shop. I thought I would show some of what I've been working on lately. I got a 3D printer about 3 years ago after a friend did some details on his for me. I was sold at that point. At first I just used it to make details, doors and windows. I have been scratch building for over 50 years. I decided to combine that with using the 3D printer to do brick buildings.
This shot is of three building that I printed one at a time. The build plate on my printer will do a building 40' wide by 30' tall or 30' wide by 40' tall. I used only the first two buildings. Next is the two buildings after painting. I design the building like the old DPM with all windows, doors and details in place.
Very cool, Mike.
These have come out very well. The window mullions look pretty fine. Please post a photo when you have painted it up.
Cheers, Mark.
Interesting that you printed details like the electric meter and downspouts to the print, not just basic walls.
Good stuff. (I'll take one of each)
Mike,
Very nice, I really like the extra added details. Would like to see once you have them painted.
Thanks Mark. The first building is the second time I printed it. The first time I got the mullions to small and they did not print very well. I redid the the windows with every other upright bigger and it work much better.
Thanks Dave. when I first got my printer I got on the internet and looked for files out there figured why redo stuff I can find. There is a lot out there. Over time I started making a lot of my own stuff. I found that some thing that are very fine tend to bow over time. So I add them to the print. There is a site out there called Thingiver.com It has all kinds of stuff in lots of different scales. I use a scale converter to scale stuff to my scale (HO).
Thanks Gary.
Here is the first building painted. I have been using clear Styrene to glaze the windows but it is a pain in the you know what with printed windows in the building like this. I have to use ACC and sometime the inside around the windows is not perfectly flat. I remembered Microscale had a product for making small windows I checked and they still make it Micro Kristal Klear. I got some and it work perfect for me. In the photo you can see the windows I have also started the roof. It will be tar paper.