I've been thinking about the oncoming Modeling Season (aka "Winter") and what I could do to occupy my time.
I took my usual nappy-poo a little early today as it was raining and everything I particularly wanted to do was outside stuff. As often happens, just as I was in that gray zone between waking and sleeping, it occurred to me that I should have a 40's-50's style gas pump for my farm diorama.
I dusted off my TinkerCAD skills (and my 3D printer, it was disgusting) and downloaded the newest version of the Cura slicer and whipped up a model of the pump.
Decided since the printer hadn't been fired up since sometime around last March, I should do a test print of something a little smaller so as not to waste a bunch of filament if things went wrong. Cleaned, leveled and pre-heated the bed and danged if it didn't print a perfect object right out of the gate!
Pump is printing now.
Guy on one of the tractor boards wants a 1:64 model of a John Deere 7700 combine and is supposed to be sending me pictures and measurements. That should be fun! I had a ball doing the Allis Chalmers All Crop.
I took my usual nappy-poo a little early today as it was raining and everything I particularly wanted to do was outside stuff. As often happens, just as I was in that gray zone between waking and sleeping, it occurred to me that I should have a 40's-50's style gas pump for my farm diorama.
I dusted off my TinkerCAD skills (and my 3D printer, it was disgusting) and downloaded the newest version of the Cura slicer and whipped up a model of the pump.
Decided since the printer hadn't been fired up since sometime around last March, I should do a test print of something a little smaller so as not to waste a bunch of filament if things went wrong. Cleaned, leveled and pre-heated the bed and danged if it didn't print a perfect object right out of the gate!
Pump is printing now.
Guy on one of the tractor boards wants a 1:64 model of a John Deere 7700 combine and is supposed to be sending me pictures and measurements. That should be fun! I had a ball doing the Allis Chalmers All Crop.