Here’s my cardboard entry. Who knew all we had were Christmas, Halloween, Pirates, & Linen napkins lying around the house?
I still don’t know what’s going on top but I’ve got the bandsaw now which should make things easier.
I love the mystery. Can’t wait to see what is under the sheet,
You could have used the linen and a sharpie. I’m sure momma would have understood the importance of it.
OK Bill… I noticed that that “Napkin” was engineers 50 lines to the inch graph paper…Now I’m not ruling this as a “Cheat”… But it is balancing on being way too precise… “For a napkin…”
But I’ll give you a pass, based on Rule #1…And that it’s still early in the build…
Just be reminded that this is the “MIK” not Fine Scaler…
In my defence Dave, it’s gonna look nothing like the drawing. Sigh. 
I sure hope you had your fingers crossed when you made this statement.
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Been a week and nothing. POSER. Man up and start modeling
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Ha ha. Maybe you should say that to Rick 
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Bill??? Hey Bill, you here? I’ve been gone got months, I mean months, wondering if your gonna build anything.
he woun’t.
its daytime over there - so he’ll be de… err gardenchair-modelling his layout.
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Wow, a dual extruder, neat!
Unfortunately not. I’ve just layered my colours on the slicer, Cliff. I have an MMU that would allow me to insert colour everywhere, but I’ve been reticent to use it because of the amount of filament it wastes.
How to Potentially Blow Your MIK Budget With the Push of a Button.
Just when you think you know everything… I thought I found a deal on Amazon.au for a value pack of specialty wood fibre PLA. I’ve purchased small 750, regular 1000 grams and large 2kg rolls in the past, so the price for four 800 grams seemed reasonable.
Unfortunately had I read what I wanted to read, and told Herself I thought this would make a nice little Christmas present. On opening the box we discovered 4 teensy 200 gram rolls (not the expected 4x800 gram rolls).
While there was free Amazon shipping to me, the return had to be sent to the USA. Being at the end of the supply line, international shipping has become almost prohibitively expensive here.
So here is a photo of my bobbin of PLA I am using for my Lamborghini of prints…
Left un-sanded. Right sanded.
Scraped.
Scraped & distressed
Bottom
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Bill, is that wat you’re actually doing?
Yeah Cliff,
I’m suffering from imposter syndrome this MIK.
I think I could have purchased a significant amount of walnut wood for the price I paid for the PLA.
Lol well it looks great. Sorry it’s a lot more expensive than what you expected.
Bill, OOPS happen… I’ll give you a break, Since you ordered it before the first… and considering the shipping distance back, and the time frame…
Count only the % you used towards the build price…
Dave T.
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I’m finding that attempting printing detailed objects with filament almost demands something else be done to cover (or distract from) the underlying print pattern.
Herself would be fantastic at weathering but has no interest in dirtying up a perfectly good pretty train. When I try, I’m generally accused of overthinking the process. To combat identifying the most logical places I might find dust, dirt and grime, today I tried to multitask and not overthink weathering the wheels with the TV on.
I think, I was concentrating too much, again. Maybe I should have worn sunglasses too…
Onward….
That’s why I have both types of printers, though I haven’t mastered my filament printer yet. But it’s great for making big tough parts. But the detail of resin is so so much better. With that said consider a two part epoxy “putty”. I’d have said an auto body filler like condo. But Eric uses plumbers putty and I think that’s brilliant. Given the rough nature of filament prints I think it would bond great and then you could fill the build lines.
I do like the design. Nice looking wheel.