Monday, 21 August 2023

10mm war master Dwarves, 3D printed

 Hi guys 

I made a vow at the beginning of the year to only do 1/72 WWII for my own project this year, and I did really well, have bone nothing else, got a lot done, still heaps to do, however I broke my vow this weekend, and dabbled in some 10mm fantasy 3D printing, man these things are tiny, it’s sometimes hard to get a good perspective of real size when working in CAD, have just finished washing these prints, they turned out pretty good, some of the shields didn’t print well due to support issues, all these supports are the smallest I can do, and they are going to be hard to remove without damage I think, I may have to go back to the drawing board and thicken everything up, weapon shafts are so thin, one careless handling will damage them.

A few questions for the 10mm fantasy enthusiast, how tall do you make/are your Dwarves? I’ve done these about 6-7mm, and for those that 3D print, I have used 28mm STLs, shrunk them down, have others successfully done this? Did you thicken/strengthen everything? when I was doing this I tried to make a lot of individuals, headswaps, pose changes, tried to keep a lot of detail, but I don’t know if it was worth the effort with them being so small, how do other printers handle 10mm fantasy? 

I’ll take some more pics after removing the supports, curing and undercoating to pick out the detail.















Tuesday, 15 August 2023

Towed Pak38 and LeIG18 with pneumatic tyres

 Hi guys

Working on another set, this time a towed Pak38, adding some mounted gunners with this set, those will  come in any horse drawn artillery set I do, I’ve also made a towed Pak38 with the tow wheel attached in the tow position and a version without the tow wheel, 


























Saturday, 12 August 2023

LeIG18, limber and crew

 Hi guys 

Working on this gun/limber set as a future release, need to tinker with it, there are some very delicate parts, not for handling, as fingers can’t get to the delicate parts, but for removal from the supports in post production, the hand wheels and struts in the trails sometimes break away during the process, but otherwise I’m pretty happy with it, it’s a reworking of the Bergmann file, which I will produce in 1/72 and 1/56 under license.

Now for my question, I have also made the rubber tyre version, and I’d like to make 2 sets, one towed by a Krupp, the other by the Sdkfz 10 as pictured, does anyone know the designation name/number of the limber in the picture? And does anyone have any better pictures of that limber? It looks a little like the the If.5 MG Wagon limber, which I have already made, but without the seating for crew, but I’m not sure, any help would be appreciated.