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Cheers Jim

That looks very smart Sean, you'd be hard pressed to identify that it had been 3D printed

Big thanks to Ben @FendtFarmerfor sourcing this, took a couple of months to actually buy it and get it here but pleased to have the Schuco Unimog Gritter in the collection. Still looking for the unweathered version if anyone spots one let me know!

1 hour ago, Anderson Agri said:

Set of silage sides made up this afternoon, never scratch built anything before so a good opportunity, need to add front panel and rear door and tipping mechanism to it 

Liking that Zach, I should really add this as a kit but I'm not going to get round to it anytime soon

1 hour ago, fordmajor said:

Are you going to sell grills/ wheels / tilt ?

Yes will be doing but probably not tilts

Cheers chaps

Want to get a hard top sorted and then will get into production, may just release them on shapeways rather than try and keep printing here.

Another Land Rover on the workbench at the moment. Britians series 3 with new 3D printed pickup roof, grille and wheels.

Will give the mirrors a redesign to get them abit smaller and I need to add a more defined lip to the rim on the wheels so they are easier to paint and keep the tyres looking round. Going to have a go at a soft top too using tissue paper.

13 hours ago, Jack390 said:

First little stretch of hedge done… quite the improvement from brushwood hedges / clumps of foliage in my opinion. Bit more to be completed in due course

That's looking really smart Jack, works well being able to see sunlight through it, very natural

That's a lovely little outfit Zach, nicely built!

2 hours ago, Tractorman810 said:

thats hellish tidy james, clever idea using the latex as well, did you just super glue the tracks to it?. 

Yes it glues well with Gorilla Blue Lid Super Glue, I've been using it on the Firewood processor kits for a while, abit thinner than the 1mm rubber sheet I use for mudflaps at 0.33mm so has a nice flex to it.

One track done, well pleased with the outcome! It even moves which, although designed to, I didn't expect would be feasible.

This is going to take an eternity! Very happy with the results though, printed grousers and latex rubber strips for the Cuthbertson Landy Tracks.

Inventive work on the Fraser tanker tyres John

Ah yes, that price is for flexible resin, impressive stuff that I can't quite get my head around, but just abit too pricey, I could print a solid tyre, make a mould and cast in rubber for around the same price.

22 minutes ago, James Joe Dewar said:

Upto you obviously,But I would have a go at 3D printing the tracks useing flexible tpu, great filament to use, Worked a treat on my PistenBully tracks.

Regards

Joe.

I'd love a play with some flexible resin but at £100 a kilo I can't justify it just yet! Going to use 3d printed grousers a latex strips for the rubber section. Hoping to try the same with my Pisten Bully for some more realistic grousers.

Abit of work this weekend on the Cuthbertson Land Rover, decided to 3D print everything so that I can quickly make another. Just got to tackle the track grousers now, I have a plan for that which includes latex 😮

1 hour ago, Anderson Agri said:

Also started today, had it a whil but one of James' classic 10t trailer. Fiddly little bugger 😂😂🙈

It was a toss up between a simple square chassis or make it more fiddly but with the old school triangle chassis. Looks like you've wrangled it into shape though!

Indeed, I don't think you can mess with core principles, wheelbase, width etc. But ratio of say windscreen to bonnet may need messing with, at least that's the gist of it if I remember right.

Once I have the final selection of what will be in the kit I work through another build photographing every step of the way. These photos are then used to create the instruction manuals that accompany each build.

A bit of paint is the last step of the job (done on the instruction manual builds) and this is the finished product. Really please with how these have come out, and hopefully with the constant changes and advancements with processes we are making the price is reasonable and fair.

This produces a bunch of lasercut parts as shown below. Some bits just can't be laser cut, the trailer wheels for example were 3D printed to then make resin moulds from, mesh is insect door mesh which I think is a great size for 1:32.

The piles of bits then get assembled and any issues addressed in the cad with a re-run of the test build once adjustments are made. Being fairly basic kits the only issue across the three was the tow eye on the trailer wouldn't fit Britains Polaris Quad, so that was adjusted. For kits like silage trailers there's usually a few more iterations, the Broughan I'm currently working on is up to iteration three and a fourth will be needed before we can progress.

Happy with how everything went together there is more computer processing of the files. I arrange them all to nest onto a sheet of plastic and then add commands that tell the laser to cut lighter in areas to create sprues like on airfix kits. By doing this I've calculated I can pass on a 20-30% price reduction on some kits while also vastly reducing the number of parts missed from any single kit. What comes out is pictured below.

The latest kit I've been developing under the Braemere Models banner is some sheep farming equipment, thought I'd do a little breakdown of how they were made.

After the Borderway Model show in Carslie I had a lot of requests about where I had got my quadbike trailer and weight crate from (scratch built years ago), along with some lovely reviews of the Cattle Crush kit we released last year. Putting two and two together I set out to make some kit versions for those sheep carpet farmers out there. 

As I already have the models made in 1:32 I had a good start point. I just had to work out how to break them down into 0.5mm and 2mm flat shapes that would build up to the finished article.

This thought process is almost always done on paper and after abit of head scratching I have this notebook page with all the info I need to make a start on the CAD

And then it all gets drawn up in SolidWorks to give the below models, these are built up exactly as the finished kits will be, so once I've tweaked and adjusted to the point I'm happy I save each individual component as a .dxf file which gets put in the laser cutter software to be cut from Acrylic.

Scale seems to be a very tricky thing to pin down, I have added the info I have as a rough reference. I recall reading an article once that explained how if you just took the raw CAD files from a factory and scaled them down to make a model it wouldn't actually look 'right'. The way we view perspective ect means we have a skewed view on what something should look like so you may lengthen a bonnet or widen a wheel arch to get the feel of the real vehicle. Therefore model making is as much making it 'look right' as it is getting every dimension bang on. Sometimes though this goes completely wrong, I believe the Wiking John Deer 6930 is quite a good representation of things not going quite right.

I think the original article may have been about Matchbox cars.

1 hour ago, Paul Palmer said:

Just the meipo one would do👍

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/295350725132?hash=item44c4466a0c:g:ckcAAOSw84ljeQre&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoAG6rt67VeCyRPS1uQocMOxQ2E%2BJ2WFxaD4OLOz4bG83C9G9xGqVhYG67ge7N%2Ff0vlJP1UG5ONPAPHM1IaANugbshCUNnAkRwycrwr9i89oblJaapN2V8Iu8Sthy32buNc9qfHPuRb8MAn%2FglfQjHaBx7%2BmyvlwlB6JHveObhX1m5LLZuGfGhtN4pXCQ8f23EZQpp97nhcAfsRW98%2BFUPJI%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR8qoiZnIYQ

There you go Paul, alot cheaper on AliExpressthough. I've had no issues buying on there, you get updates emailed when it ships, lands in the country and has been delivered, think delivery was under two weeks, and as far as I'm aware the Chinese government haven't messed around with my data but I can't be sure on that one!