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: Dioramas
1:324 Scale GI Joe Vehicles
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05-17-2018, 10:53 AM
Zap Rowsdower
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Awesome!!! So let's see some Joe's playing with them!!!
Oh you will...you will...
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Originally Posted by
MagicWazard
So, what
did
you have these printed with? I'm guessing you went through Shapeways again; what material and/or options did you use?
Yep, it was a Shapeways order (I combined the shipping with my 1:18 scale palm scanner for the office building play set project). These were printed in what was formerly called "Frosted Extreme Detail" but which, as of yesterday, has changed names to "Smoothest Find Detail Plastic."
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jlw515
I saw these on your Shapeways site and thought then that they'd look great on that battlefield map.
It also reminds me of that scene from the GIJoe cartoon where Stalker films the video of the tanks and helicopters then Gung-Ho steps in and picks one up.
I think your next 1:324 scale should be a HISS tank.
Jason
Thanks, yeah I pretty much built them for this exact reason for my kids. The versions available on my Shapeways shops are outdated (I added more detail before printing these) and overpriced. I really only put them in the shop to generate the renders for them, so if anyone has been eyeing them, best to hold off for a while. The Shapeways pricing system makes about $3.50 in fees before you even account for print volume and materials, but it's a flat per-item fee so once I sprue these it will spread that cost across multiple vehicles. For example, I have a 20-Vamp sprue in my workshop on Shapeways that will end up being about $20 to purchase in the "Smoothest Fine Detail Plastic" or only $15 in the "Smooth Fine Detail Plastic" from my Shapeways shop once I finalize the design changes and bring it live.
For these prints, I ordered a test batch of a combination of sprued Vamps, Stingers, and two separate types of Mauler models that I made up just to test to see how everything ends up in terms of final detail level and weak spots (breakage areas and such). The jeeps all have very fragile brush guards on the front bumpers, the Stingers' rear handle bar - while stronger than the brush guards up front - is easy to break if you aren't careful, and the Stingers' missiles and missile racks ALL arrived loose and in the bag from Shapeways. Not a one of them survived shipping, so I am going to strengthen that quite a bit. Everything else about them is pretty robust. So I am working on the models to make them better survive shipping, de-spruing, and painting. I am probably going to have a version that has "maximum detail accuracy" and then a "sturdy" version that is easier to paint and play with without breaking the super-thin parts off of.
As for a 1:324 HISS...yup. I have a HISS and a HISS II both on my list of things to tackle for this as well. The HISS will be a relatively easy vehicle to model, too. That Mauler was a nightmare of detail!
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