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3D Printing In N Gauge - When it goes awry!


SNCF stephen

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This morning I had a go at taking out the windows of my DU65 Draisine. I was using a drill and unfortunately the plastic was too brittle on this batch and this happened:

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It was a reminder that 3D printing is a very fragile art. Luckily the frosted option was chosen so that the windows could be left in situ should this type of thing occur. So I put together one of the other DU65's I had to hand.

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It only required the bonnet and the sides at the back to be added. I need to add the exhaust manifold but this will be done as soon as I get some styrene.

I then want to paint up a few examples. With leaving the windows in situ I think it will be tricky.

Here is the original prototype:

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And a line up of the three:

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Ouch, not something you want to do very often. You could try putting a thin coat of clear glaze over the FUD window to give it a more glassy finish.

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I'd redesign the model with open windows, FUD isn't much good for creating transparent surfaces (They call it FROSTED Ultra Detail for a reason ) and to remove the windows, damaging the model is a real possibility, as you found out!

 

One the whole the print is looking nice, i look forward to the next blog post!

 

Kindest Regards,

 

Jack

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Thanks to you both for the feedback. The advice I was given was to keep the windows in because at this scale it might cause a warping due to the narrowness of the roof supports.

 

I am tempted to give it a go though.

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