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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Jun 06, 2022 9:48 am

Underbody installed.....
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Postby Jim K » Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:21 am

Very, very nice. The placement of the detail parts is great. A fine model.

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Re: The Modelers Thread

Postby healey36 » Mon Jun 06, 2022 4:53 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
J. S. Bach wrote:Your "plodding" is far, far better than anything that I could do nowadays.


Plodding since I've slowed down a lot due to too many non-model RR'ing distractions. And someone has to mow the lawn.... :roll: :roll: :roll:

Yup, the sirens call of the lawn mower and hedge clippers is more than I can bear (never the community pool or the barbeque).

Good progress and looking splendid. Perhaps I'll recognize its purpose when it gets further along :wink:
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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:19 pm

healey36 wrote:Good progress and looking splendid. Perhaps I'll recognize its purpose when it gets further along :wink:


Thanks!

Purpose? For me to have fun building it and to use up all sorts of misc. stuff laying about gathering dust, :wink: :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sun Jun 12, 2022 9:49 am

Roof sheathing on - really like this red cedar from Kappler that I had stashed away.
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Postby healey36 » Sun Jun 12, 2022 10:19 am

Mitigates the threat of moths. Looks good.
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Postby gregj410 » Tue Jun 14, 2022 5:53 pm

Is this from a kit or your design?
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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Jun 14, 2022 6:21 pm

gregj410 wrote:Is this from a kit or your design?


My design based on photos of a resin kit that was available in a larger scale.
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Postby healey36 » Wed Jun 15, 2022 11:19 am

One of the miniature model ship makers I use has started selling digital files for 3D printing stuff on home printers. I don't have a 3D printer, but the library does. I'm wondering if they will print this stuff, or will they take a pass printing copyrighted material.
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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Wed Jun 15, 2022 11:29 am

healey36 wrote:One of the miniature model ship makers I use has started selling digital files for 3D printing stuff on home printers. I don't have a 3D printer, but the library does. I'm wondering if they will print this stuff, or will they take a pass printing copyrighted material.


Well, if you paid for the file, that effectively grants you a license to use it under whatever the purchase terms are, so I'm not seeing the library having grounds for refusal.
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Postby healey36 » Wed Jun 15, 2022 12:33 pm

Might be worth looking into, as well as what the projected cost would be. The digital files are reasonable, but if you only need a couple of a certain class of ship, probably not worth it (although if it's scalable, than that might make it interesting).
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Re: The Modelers Thread

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Jul 05, 2022 5:50 pm

Calling this one done now:
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Postby Jim K » Tue Jul 05, 2022 6:00 pm

A real beauty! Great work.

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Postby healey36 » Tue Jul 05, 2022 8:15 pm

Yup, very ingenious and well done.
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Re: The Modelers Thread

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Wed Jul 06, 2022 9:33 am

Thanks all!

On the next car.....
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