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NutJob

A student aged sixteen, NutJob will be leaving school at the end of this year. He loves maths and the sciences, and he’s a “nuts and bolts” man. He wants to know how everything works, to take everythi...

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More Wee Planes

I've been 3d printing and painting some 1:144 WW1 aircraft, for playing _Canvas Eagles_ , a tabletop WW1 dogfight game. I can't say that I've been exceptionally productive: these three (plus a Fokker Triplane that I gave away as a gift) are the sum total of my completed work so far. However, I've just ordered some 1:144 decals, which will make painting the little things much less of a chore. Painting the markings is the hardest part of the whole process. I do have some more in the offing though, along with another Sopwith Camel on the printer even as I type, and an Albatros D-III and a Nieuport 17 in the print queue. I've printed the occasional one on my Mars Pro resin printer, and when it works it does give me cleaner surfaces, but for the most part I print them in FDM on my Ender 3. It's no slower when printing a single plane, and the resulting models are considerably stronger and less prone to distortion of wing tips and things. I need to figure out a process for painting the lozenge camo scheme on the Fokker D-VII. That could be a bit tricky. The aeroplanes in the little white dish are 1:200 scale, which I thought would be a good compromise size between 1:300, of which I have quite a few but which are tiny to see from any distance, and 1:72, which are readily available in kit form but take up far too much space. And so they are, but the resin I was using to print them (eSun water-washable) had a tendency to warp horribly. The spirit-based resin I'm using now is better in that respect, but is more trouble to clean up. I'll probably stick with the larger 1:144 FDM prints.