Dan Hilyer said:
Great job, Devon. If you haven’t figured it our yet, the design part is addicting, very addicting. I find myself looking for things to design just to get my fix (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Purchasing detail parts is fine but designing and 3D printing is cheating? That dog don’t hunt in my book.
Dan,
I should have realized how much i would enjoy it. As a scratch build modeler and a wood worker that seldom works from formal plans I have always loved taking something in my brain to a tangible thing I can hold. I used to (and still will) do it with wood and styrene. Now I have just added another element. Where I really have leaned an appreciation for it is you still have to “build” it one piece at a time and assemble it. And sometimes it doesn’t work and you have to go back and make it better. There really is little difference. And as fr buying detailing parts, whats the difference if you buy it or print it.
And yes its addicting and actually pretty relaxing to just design stuff. now that I am over the major learning curve and can do or figure out how to do most of what I want to do I am getting fairly quick at the process. My printer has seen very little down time since I got it to actually print. I think I am on my fourth jug of resin already.