54mm Charge of the Scots Greys

[Guest]

Each step justs gets better Neil :smiling3:.

[rtfoe]

Oh dear it's going to catch the chill and shrink :tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy:

Cheers,
Richard

[papa 695]

Fantastic work so far Neil.

[yak face]

Amazing work neil , superb attention to detail ( his todger is frightening !) the 3d printing worked a treat , very complicated stuff but you did it perfectly . Its looking amazing now , cant wait to see it in all its glory , cheers tony

[adt70hk]

Neil

Looking very good indeed. Well done!!

Andrew

[Neil Merryweather]

Ralph, Richard, Tony, Ian and Andrew,
thanks for your continued interest and encouragement

[SimonT]

Those resin prints look very nice

I can make 3D cad models no problem but my PLA 3D printer does not really give good enough quality for fine details

[Neil Merryweather]

thanks Simon
I'm lucky we have a Form 3 resin printer at work. At £5-6K it's way out of my personal budget!
We have Ultimakers as well for PLA and I've had some good results from them, but nothing as fine as this.
There are hobby level resin printers on the market at around the £300 -400 mark, but I'd still have to win the lottery to get one past the authorities!

[Steve Jones]

The preview photos look outstanding Neil. I can really see where you are heading now. Great stuff

[Neil Merryweather]

thanks alot Steve

[Neil Merryweather]

Well, I’ve had a month off from this and today I’m back in the saddle.
You will no doubt remember we left poor Jock in a state of embarrassment with a stiff breeze around the Trossachs!
I had broken out the Duro for the French Grenadier’s buttons and I knew I would have a lot left over, so I talked myself into making Jock decent.
I rolled the Duro out on a granite chopping board between two sheets of greaseproof paper and cut it into a rough semi-circle.

The kilt is actually a straight piece of fabric which is straight at the front and gathered into many pleats at the back, but I tried that first and I couldn’t get it to the shape required by the image. So I went for this and it worked better.


When it came to the back I had a bit more trouble so I tried a bit harder and used my old pattern-making trick from art school.
This involves making cuts almost through a strip of paper the width of the kilt and taping it in position around his waist.

The coat tails got in the way so I had to take off the torso.

I traced around the template and cut it out of paper

I then used it to cut the Duro to shape.


Once it’s dry I will add the pleat detail over the top.
This may turn out to be a bit crude, so I might have to do it again, we’ll see.
But at least we are back up and running with this, and hopefully this is the home stretch!
Thanks for looking in
Neil

[Andy Belsey]

Somehow managed to miss progress on this Neil, but I've just caught up!! Finally!!
Excellent!!
Andy

[scottie3158]

Neil,
Great work on the kilt, it all looks very natural.

[Neil Merryweather]

Somehow managed to miss progress on this Neil, but I've just caught up!! Finally!!
Excellent!!
Andy

Many thanks, and welcome back ,Andy!

[Neil Merryweather]

Neil,
Great work on the kilt, it all looks very natural.

Thanks Scottie but there's still the painting of it to c*ck up!