The New Boy

[minitnkr]

Never worked one but heard it had gobs of torque unlike the v12s.

[Airborne01]

Welcome mate, some lovely builds there!
Steve

[Mini Me]

Welcome to the forum Nick :thumb2:

[rtfoe]

Great intro Nick and a warm welcome to a cosy forum. So you're a digital surgeon :thumb2: , some of us are still old school butchers who love the sound of sawn off limbs.:smiling6:Gotta get my hands on this Cad and Cam stuff.

Cheers,
Richard aka Wabble

[boatman]

No it’s the new Tamiya 1/48th - beautiful kits, treat yourself if you don’t have, their new phantom is equally nice too. Different level stuff.

HI again Nick my tomcat is a trumpy super tomcat but can i get away with doin it in jolly rogers colours ? as im not up on aircraft an cant afford tamyia's phantom as ive ploughed all my dosh into my big hms tiger R/C 4yr build an she is just now finished an ready now for her maiden voyuge next month
but i love your tomcat brilliant build as one of the guys have said looks real
ATB to you Sir
Chrisb

[Gern]

Some beautiful builds there Nick. Looking forward to seeing more.

[Ian M]

Some great looking models there Nick. With your broad taste I am sure you will fit in here.

Love the MC looks real.

[Dave Ward]

Nick,
a wide range of lovely models! Welcome to the forum - loads of friendly like-minded modellers. Any questions? - ask away - any tips? post them up.
I'm in the process of 'mastering' ( ha! ) 3D FDM printing, a time consuming process, which interferes with my benchtime
Dave

[scottie3158]

Nick,
A very warm welcome from me too. Some seriously nice builds.

[johnm93]

Hi all, just joined the forum so thought I would say hello. Life-long model builder (with a few gaps!) and having a slightly more serious go at it now I'm semi retired. I taught myself CAD (and now CAM) so using this to make a few bits.

I'm focusing on 1/8th and 1/12th cars at the moment but my interests are many and varied including wooden ships, many, many aircraft (my first love) and plenty of stuff in between. Here's a taster :smiling3:

The Brough looks like a real bike...!

[Tworrs]

Hi Nick and welcome, some lovely models there.

[JR]

Welcome Nick , some seriously good modelling there.

[nickedw]

HI again Nick my tomcat is a trumpy super tomcat but can i get away with doin it in jolly rogers colours ?

I did battle with the old 1/32 Tamiya F14 some years ago and disappeared down a rabbit hole correcting and detailing so never finished, here’s some old fotos





i didn’t have any modern kit then, so it’s all scratch built, even with a crack at (nasty) home-made photo etch!

[nickedw]

Nick,
a wide range of lovely models! Welcome to the forum - loads of friendly like-minded modellers. Any questions? - ask away - any tips? post them up.
I'm in the process of 'mastering' ( ha! ) 3D FDM printing, a time consuming process, which interferes with my benchtime
Dave

Hi Dave, I went down the FDM route myself as I was initially scared of resin. Honestly, and please don’t be offended, but don’t bother with FDM for modelling, get yourself a little elegoo Mars or similar and you wont look back.
The stuff I get off my machines is at 20 microns resolution and indistinguishable from injection moulding in terms of surface finish and detail is well beyond anything mouldIng can achieve.

here’s a few straight out of the washer to give you an idea.




Just to push the boundaries here are some 1/12th scale instrument needles I printed recently

[Dave Ward]

Hi Dave, I went down the FDM route myself as I was initially scared of resin. Honestly, and please don’t be offended, but don’t bother with FDM for modelling, get yourself a little elegoo Mars or similar and you wont look back.
The stuff I get off my machines is at 20 microns resolution and indistinguishable from injection moulding in terms of surface finish and detail is well beyond anything mouldIng can achieve.

here’s a few straight out of the washer to give you an idea.




Just to push the boundaries here are some 1/12th scale instrument needles I printed recently

Nick,
I live in a mid-floor flat, and the fumes & toxic resin, along with the post-processing & curing, is something that isn't really viable - if I had a garage, or shed, yes, I'd be resin printing. As it is, I'm working on the FDM!
Cheers Dave