Haratio Fales

thought I would do a small update on the 3D pics, still waiting on the printers.

thought I would do a small update on the 3D pics, still waiting on the printers.

Those last 2 look more like a 1/144 or 1/100 scale, or that is a big ars sowing pin. Here's whats left of a 100 model plane collection that I built around the age of 16, I'm 50 years old now. It is a Me 109 that I hand painted and decaled and it is on my 1/72 scale deck plan for the M class light cruiser that I am scratch building.

The Printers that were suppose to be here in December are from a company called (Preachy Printers) I am suppose to be a Beta tester for them. I'm a little aggravated with the fact that they were suppose to come out on the market in 2015 or 16 but now they are suppose to hit the shelves in May of this year. They should sell for around 500 dollars apiece and they make all the plastic string printers look like toys. These printers use lasers and salt water resin to make detail down to the size of a human hair thickness. The 3D program that You print from is called Blender. Blender is a 3D artistic CAD program that is totally free to download online and is comparable with the programs that Lucas arts, and Industrial Light and Magic use. It does however take a good amount of time and dedication to learn though. It is like taking college classes unless you have already been drawing Cad for a while. There are very good books though and a ton of stuff on You tube to help anyone to start and continue learning it though. I was just hoping that my 1200 dollar investment was going to give me about 2 years give or take to make stuff before the general public was going to get there hands on the machines. at least the general public doesn't have my knowledge about Plan Z ships, and all my blue prints and line drawings of the subject, LOL.

The big project has been haulted do to the 3D cad learning and waiting on the 3D printers to come so I can produce all the little detailed parts for the Big model of the Munich. like the radars and Gun turrets. that's why I'm showing the 3D drawings of her, its the same ship design. The weather has been holding me up also cause I cant cast the concrete hull molds from the Plug indoors.

check this one out.

lets see if it will let me do this one. I added hatches and portholes.

Here is another after a little railing work.

Here is a png file if it works right.

I still am learning how to texture, paint and render the images, and have to draw the pieces different to make images and to print the parts for the models, however I should get the first machine in a couple of weeks and the others by march, so I hop to get into full swing to make the parts to continue on Munich. My older Brother and I are getting a LLC license to sell things on our website ( Enterprise Federation Foundation) so if I can publish the book by then and start producing custom Model parts, and kits then I can sell them there along with using Amazon. I look forward to finishing the scratch build projects also as to start some more. I have about a ten planed and don't want to be 90 when I start the fourth one LOL. so the 3D printing should seriously speed up the time on building them. Sorry I get caught in the quick sand of life for long periods of time. I hope the things I'm doing change that so I can be more consistent with the build logs. Oh and before I forget, Happy Holidays, and a Prosperous new year to You all. Smoot sailing, Haratio.

here are a few more.

Ok, I started writing a book about the design of the Z plan ships, and I have been building a workshop to move the projects out of My living room and into My garage. I have been learning 4/ 3D graphic programs and have 4 3D printers on order to beta test for a company in Canada. So I'll post some pictures of the drawings I'm working on for Munich, The Spahkruiser, and for the book illustrations.

The first Gun barrol didn't come out to bad considering it was from a broom stick. I am thinking about using it to resincast for Toy ship stuff. For models though I need to be a bit more accurate and use harder wood like cherry, or walnut. and or metal on a metal lathe. This one is just a hair to big for the 11 inch design but I'm happy with the attempt. I will post real soon as I am continuing on the turrets though and see what you all think. From the Beaches in Cheyenne, Haratio.

I should have probably built the project in 1/100 scale LOL as I could buy all the parts and peices in that scale, and It could have been a fun toy for reference. anyway I like the 1/72 better. I bought a Drafting machine for my desk, now I need some scales for it. and I have been playing on my Dremal wood lathe, even though it is a bit small for some of the barrols.

I bought a couple of 100 scale turrets for reference, and posible 100 scale projects later on. So I have started to build sheet styrene parts for th main turrets on the ship.