Wonder why one no screwed with the Vikings.
Friday, January 24, 2020
Thursday, January 23, 2020
More Vietnam photos circa 1969
More pictures of armor at work. I believe this is the first picture of M113 Zippo at work.
Enjoy the pictures.
Enjoy the pictures.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Full auto crossbow.
Yes, this guy is a hoot. He is a german who love crossbows. So he had to try to make a full auto crossbow... I think I need one....HAHAHA
Monday, January 20, 2020
Amazing what one can do with Anycubic resin printer,Arminas Didziokas
After seeing this I need to make room for my Anycubic printer, I been sitting on my hands a little to long.
Here is what Arminas Didziokas created
Here is what Arminas Didziokas created
Hey guys, my new big project is finally completely finished!
If you're interested, here's little about the process:
I started sculpting this back in summer, but had to constantly put it away because of "Jobs" and stuff. So just kept working at it whenever I had some free time and kept adding details, changing the design, re-sculpting a bunch of stuff and so on, but I'm pretty happy with how everything turned out x]
In general it was a little bit inspired by old school Heavy Metal Magazines style - you know - where everything just looks COOL and makes no sense
Printed on Anycubic Photon with Ameralabs Grey resin. I was using 5.61s for 0.04mm thickness layers, 4xAA, 4 raft layers - 80s exposure.
Everything was cut into 26 parts - which was altogether 7 full plate prints (check picture in chitubox). The final model is around 1/10th scale (about 21cm in height)
I printed everything hollowed with 1-1.1mm wall thickness.
Usually I never used auto-supports in the past, don't trust them at all. But I tried PrusaSlicer and it's not too bad! Still a lot of nonsense supports but a good start.
So I was orienting parts in Chitubox - creating full plate scenes (because it's very easy to see how everything will get printed with that Slice Slider thingie and Prusa's Slider is not that good),
Then exported those full plate STLs to PrusaSlicer, generated auto-supports, went into manual editing, deleted some nonsense, moved some support points around to better distribute the weight, added a bunch more supports manually.
Then exported everything back to Chitubox again, checked if it looked alright, added a few more supports in chitubox if I felt the need and sliced everything with 4xAA.
Most likely I'm using way too many supports, but I kinda want to feel safe and secure everything in place while printing. I really don't mind some quick sanding, and I tried orienting all the parts so there's not too much marks on the good sides of the model - all the crap went to the bottom where no one will see it x]
Because there so many details, there are some small unsupported islands here and there, bet they usually get attached to the main print in a layer or two, so I wasn't sweating about it x]
One thing that I really learned - Next time I won't use cylindrical keys for joining parts.. it can get annoying, but redoing all the keys and cuts and then test-printing everything again will take me another 2 weeks or more, so I left them as it is for now.
Sorry for a long read! I hope I didn't forget anything important, let me know if you have any questions.
I don't want to flood the group with 50 photos, so I have uploaded a lot more photos here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/armians3d/photos/
It's a pretty complicated project, but if you're up for the challenge - STL files are now available to purchase on MyMiniFactory.
If you're interested, here's little about the process:
I started sculpting this back in summer, but had to constantly put it away because of "Jobs" and stuff. So just kept working at it whenever I had some free time and kept adding details, changing the design, re-sculpting a bunch of stuff and so on, but I'm pretty happy with how everything turned out x]
In general it was a little bit inspired by old school Heavy Metal Magazines style - you know - where everything just looks COOL and makes no sense
Printed on Anycubic Photon with Ameralabs Grey resin. I was using 5.61s for 0.04mm thickness layers, 4xAA, 4 raft layers - 80s exposure.
Everything was cut into 26 parts - which was altogether 7 full plate prints (check picture in chitubox). The final model is around 1/10th scale (about 21cm in height)
I printed everything hollowed with 1-1.1mm wall thickness.
Usually I never used auto-supports in the past, don't trust them at all. But I tried PrusaSlicer and it's not too bad! Still a lot of nonsense supports but a good start.
So I was orienting parts in Chitubox - creating full plate scenes (because it's very easy to see how everything will get printed with that Slice Slider thingie and Prusa's Slider is not that good),
Then exported those full plate STLs to PrusaSlicer, generated auto-supports, went into manual editing, deleted some nonsense, moved some support points around to better distribute the weight, added a bunch more supports manually.
Then exported everything back to Chitubox again, checked if it looked alright, added a few more supports in chitubox if I felt the need and sliced everything with 4xAA.
Most likely I'm using way too many supports, but I kinda want to feel safe and secure everything in place while printing. I really don't mind some quick sanding, and I tried orienting all the parts so there's not too much marks on the good sides of the model - all the crap went to the bottom where no one will see it x]
Because there so many details, there are some small unsupported islands here and there, bet they usually get attached to the main print in a layer or two, so I wasn't sweating about it x]
One thing that I really learned - Next time I won't use cylindrical keys for joining parts.. it can get annoying, but redoing all the keys and cuts and then test-printing everything again will take me another 2 weeks or more, so I left them as it is for now.
Sorry for a long read! I hope I didn't forget anything important, let me know if you have any questions.
I don't want to flood the group with 50 photos, so I have uploaded a lot more photos here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/armians3d/photos/
It's a pretty complicated project, but if you're up for the challenge - STL files are now available to purchase on MyMiniFactory.
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Advance Squad Leader Museumfest
The first Museumfest for the year has come and gone. This event is put on 4 times a year by long time Advanced Squad Leader player P.J. Norton. P.J. held this event for a every long time. The group isn't very big. But all are dedicated ASL players. Some names you may recognize beside P.J. is David Lamb, Fred Schwartz and Bob Davis to name a few. This group had play tested and wrote numerous ASL scenarios for all the ASL game makers.
Great group of people willing to teach ASL to anyone willing to learn the game. Over a year PJ took me under his to reintroduce me to ASL. Because of this I have pulled out my ASL games that have been gathering dust for year. Some I wife buried deep in a couple closets. Enjoy the photos.
David Lamb Pj Norton and Trent Dobbs prepping for some Fight for Seoul action. Mike (the "counter monkey") Monczuski to their left, preparing to pull counters for their game. In the background, Larry Winslow and David Lamb playtesting for BFP.
12 people braved "Snowmageddon" to play at the Museum in Eastpointe, Michigan. Three games of ASL on Saturday, plus the four guys pictured in the background playing Talisman and other boardgames.
Great group of people willing to teach ASL to anyone willing to learn the game. Over a year PJ took me under his to reintroduce me to ASL. Because of this I have pulled out my ASL games that have been gathering dust for year. Some I wife buried deep in a couple closets. Enjoy the photos.
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| PJ Nortom getting ready to play a Korean war scenario |
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| Group playing Talisman, |
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| Dave Lamb play test a new BFP Neptune. |
12 people braved "Snowmageddon" to play at the Museum in Eastpointe, Michigan. Three games of ASL on Saturday, plus the four guys pictured in the background playing Talisman and other boardgames.
Games are underway!
Saturday, January 18, 2020
A9 Cruiser Mk.I (PSC A9/Italeri Valentine kit-bash with Dan Taylor PE & Resin)
MArk Davies created another A9 Cruiser master piece. About year I posted his first one.
Article here:
Last year I kitbashed PSC's A9 with Italeri Bishop bogies and sprockets,
OKB Valentine road wheels and tracks, Dan Tayor's resin MG turrets and PE corrections/detail enhancements. I also sanded off the PSC rivets and replaced them with Archer resin decal rivets.
I was reasonably pleased with the outcome of as the A9 is a favourite of mine and I'd always wanted a model of one since boyhood.
Article here:
Last year I kitbashed PSC's A9 with Italeri Bishop bogies and sprockets,
OKB Valentine road wheels and tracks, Dan Tayor's resin MG turrets and PE corrections/detail enhancements. I also sanded off the PSC rivets and replaced them with Archer resin decal rivets.
I was reasonably pleased with the outcome of as the A9 is a favourite of mine and I'd always wanted a model of one since boyhood.
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