Thursday 30 April 2015

1/16 Willys Jeep

I've started work on a 1/16 Jeep.

I'm building it as a static model that can be converted to RC. Been away a lot so I've had plenty of time designing bits on the laptop but not much time for printing and building.



Tuesday 14 April 2015

1/16 IDF M50 (Build)


I've been making parts for a couple of guys who are building IDF M50/51's. I thought these tanks are based on the HVSS Shermans and as I have no spare Tam hulls I didn't think about making one. But then I came across this pic-



M50 with VVSS. So with some of my test/waste parts I set about building my own IDF tank-

Thursday 9 April 2015

3D model from photos

Tonight I discovered a new bit of software "123D Catch" which converts photos into 3D models.


1st take lots of pics-



Wednesday 1 April 2015

1/16 M4a1 (Build)

Been away from home a lot recently, so while I was away I started work on a small hatch cast hull M4a1. When I got home I started printing and after 23 hours of printing (over 3 days) I ended up with this-