Hello Marmoi
I just found your posting here and I have a question about your Phalanx Gun kit, I do not remember seeing if it is available in 1/144, is it?
Also I have been planning a build of two Australian Coastal Patrol craft, Fremantle Class and Armidale Class. Would you have any plans for any fittings for either in 1/72, guns, life boats, cranes any parts?
Please let me know about ALL of the above.
Thank You.
George
George,
Allan Pew in Australia has kits for both of those including the guns. Fittings are available separately from him.
I may have to use another process to model them.
Hi,
I sent an email to a 3D Printing shop to find out how to get some 1/72 doors made and I would need at least 30.
The reply was you design it we will make it.
Good start I thought.
A few weeks go by so I sent an email to find out what the problem was.
We don't do orders for the general public was the reply.
I can take a hint so I will try elsewhere.
A lot of businesses these days need to take a course in how to run a business and treat potential customers.
So if anyone knows where I can get 1/72 scale deck fittings.......?
Regards
Hi Mark,
I got one Question to you.
I ordered 3D-printed parts in Frosted Ultar Detail like yours at Shapeways.
The parts are perfect but there is one Problem with spray-painting.
The paint wont get dry.
What kind of paint do you use to paint your models?
Stephan
Well I got my Shapeways RN Sea Archers the other day and put them together. Very nice goodies. As the only paint I have in RN grey is enamel, I thought I would try it. Undercoated in a normal spray can paint, then hand painted (nearly dry brushed) with enamel. Went on OK though did seem to take longer to dry than normal.
The shop I tried to get 3D parts from recommended acrylic paints. Soemthing I rarely use and have little of. :((
Well you challenged me and here it is - The Quad Vickers!!!
Now all I need to know it what scale and do you want a Kit (Possable) or a complete model (Static at one angle)?
Ok, I will set the set of 4 up, but what scale do you want them at?
The Quad Vickers looks amazing and the Wasp is very impressive. Small weapons like the Vickers are some of the hardest parts of these models, you see so many good models let down by poor detailing. A range of RN light weapons would go over really well especially with the resurgence of interest in 1/72nd and 1/35th plastic boat kits. Aftermarket add-ons seem to get limited to Oerlikon and Bofors. Anyone who produced 2Pdr Pom Poms, Twin Vickers in Mark V power mounts or 6pdr Power mounts, etc could easily corner the market! Especially if they were availble in all the popular scales. %) %) %) %)
The Quad Vickers models have now been setup and can be purchased form the online shop by following the links below;Done, all in the stowed position please.
1:96 x 2 models
http://www.shapeways.com/model/2711099/quad-vickers-x-2-1-96.html?materialId=61 (http://www.shapeways.com/model/2711099/quad-vickers-x-2-1-96.html?materialId=61)
1:96 x 4 models
http://www.shapeways.com/model/2713282/quad-vickers-x-4-1-96.html?materialId=61 (http://www.shapeways.com/model/2713282/quad-vickers-x-4-1-96.html?materialId=61)
1:72 x 2 models
http://www.shapeways.com/model/2713236/quad-vickers-x-2-1-72.html?materialId=61 (http://www.shapeways.com/model/2713236/quad-vickers-x-2-1-72.html?materialId=61)
1:72 x 4 models
http://www.shapeways.com/model/2713287/quad-vickers-x-4-1-72.html?materialId=61 (http://www.shapeways.com/model/2713287/quad-vickers-x-4-1-72.html?materialId=61)
The current models are in the stowed position, but if required sets can be created in "Action stations" with the guns elevated.
If you have drawings, I will have a go, but it will be very small.Bit of a problem as the only drawing I have is of the earlier pre WW2 version by Norman Ough where the mounting is cylindrical and it had a "stock" out of the rear of the gun. :((
My quads have arrived, nice fast delivery to this neck of the woods and superb little models. :-))
What is coming next for we RN types?
Any pics?
Mudway,That he does, waiting for my 3 pdrs now. :-)
Amazing, thank you. O0 O0 O0
Marmoi certainly does good work :-)) :-)) :-))
It all looks so easy
How is it that no matter how quick you clean and spray a model, that a spider lays a web across it first? {-)
Hi,
My 2 Quad Vickers arrived yesterday.
Very intricate work.
Watch the end of the barrels, I already broke a couple off. A minute with the tweezers and superglue fixed the problem.
How do I wash them without more breakages?
Regards
Hi,
That is why I always keep a junk box of previous plastic kits.
It's amazing what comes in useful.
Regards
Hi,
My 2 Quad Vickers arrived yesterday.
Very intricate work.
Watch the end of the barrels, I already broke a couple off. A minute with the tweezers and superglue fixed the problem.
How do I wash them without more breakages?
Regards
Now to missquote Monty Python, how about something complately different. Davits or are what I'm after called davit arms?
The best an simplest way of cleaning that I have found also gives the best results is using the wife's ultrasonic jewellery cleaner with some soapy warm water and then a second time with clean warm water. I have not broken anything using this method of cleaning.
Do you have drawings?
I am already working on some pulleys.
Hi Marmoi: I have just spotted on the Shapeways web site Nordenfelt 1" 4-Barrelled Machine Gun in 1:64 Scale.
Is that really a set of six, or each ? I need a set of 6 for my HMS Polyphemus. Just want to check before ordering.
That will save me a lot of work fabricating these, especially as it is an unusual scale.
PS Any other 1/64 parts suitable for this ship?
How about going to the other extreme and doing the Hotchkiss 3 Pound gun in 1:12 scale to suit the commercially available 50" Picket Boat hull ? I believe the same hull but in a smaller scale is also available from Kingston Mouldings and Deans so there might be an opportunity to sell them in more than one size. Cheers, Ian
The set is now online at;
https://www.shapeways.com/model/2767369/polyphemus-nordenfelt-4-barreled-x-6-1-64.html?li=aeTabs (https://www.shapeways.com/model/2767369/polyphemus-nordenfelt-4-barreled-x-6-1-64.html?li=aeTabs)
You can cut the list down on the shop by selecting the shop section you want in the list on the left of the shop screen.
Sounds the way to go. I found these on fleabay. Cynical me thinks the first is too cheap. Do any of these resemble what you use?
The best an simplest way of cleaning that I have found also gives the best results is using the wife's ultrasonic jewellery cleaner with some soapy warm water and then a second time with clean warm water. I have not broken anything using this method of cleaning.
My quads took about 6 days from order to receipt. :-))
Now crossing fingers that the saluting guns get here by Friday in time for Saturday's show at Rathmines.
would it be possible to produce these 1/96..1/72
Bofors 40mm TwinBR 40mm 60cal STAAG Twin+ Sensor: BR, Radar, Type 262You mean these? If so Marmoi would be duplicating what is available rather than having the market to himself. Being the sole producer seems the better idea to me. :-)http://www.battlecrafts.co.uk/index.php/armaments/199-twin-bofors-mk9-gun-on-mk5-mount (http://www.battlecrafts.co.uk/index.php/armaments/199-twin-bofors-mk9-gun-on-mk5-mount)
Do you have drawings?
I am already working on some pulleys.
I've been having fun with drawings. I only have these which are Norman Ough's and from which the davits in the photo were made. I'm not too sure if they are good enough and I had forgotten that there was more than one shape. A "fatter" one for the motor boats as they had more beam. These drawings should print out at actual size for 1/72 scale. Crossing fingers again.
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Hi Marmoi,
I now have a Quad Vickers in grey undercoat and it will not come off even when scrapped with a knife.
The Sonic Cleaner must have done its job well!
Regards
The armoured bridge from an S100 E-Boat in 1/24 scale would be of particular interest to me. I know there's a 1/35 scale armoured bridge on sale via White Ensign Models and others but nothing in 1/24 scale.
Hi,
Re your Its Cyber Monday and there is 20% off all orders placed today!
Next time can you make allowances for the time difference here in Australia?
I just got your email at Tuesday 01.00 AEST or Monday 14.00.
Regards
Hi,You'd have to go a long way to do better than the Gunthwaite figures! What would be useful would be articulated armature figure in all the major scales (Using 5' 10" as an average height) Then you could create individual figures with a minimum amount of work in any position. That would be dead handy.
Some Navy figures in 1/72 would be helpful to me.
Regards
...I couldnt get and still CAN NOT for the life of me understand why it is called printing when it clearly is NOT ........
Dave
Hi Marmoi,
Just went to the website to order the 12 Pounder Gun in 1:72 but could not find any.
Have they been removed?
Regards
Right so it is NOT printing as we know it O0
It is as I thought a substrate layerd up to create an object,wherther it is nylon plastic silica etc
Dave
I was very impressed by all of the parts made on the website and was struggling to make 2 x 3 pounder salutingTell her that someone off Mayhem sent them to you. Which, technically, is the truth.
guns (the last parts to be made for my type 41 Frigate Leopard) I suggested to my wife that the two guns would make
an additional present for Christmas and I got a very sharp reply about " you have made all the parts yourself, is it
model making if a machine makes all the bits - may as well get a plastic kit.
So do I try AGAIN to make these guns or do I order some and not tell her
Geoff
Mark on page 1 of this thread you said you were trying out naval figures in 1/96 and 1/72 scale.
I just wondered how these had gone. I'm looking for sitting and standing figures in 1/96 with either
duffle coats or working rig - all wearing WW2 tin hats - usually try and have my models at Action stations
- just hoped these were a possibility
Geoff
QUICK to put up pics of a computer generated Guns BUT NOT THE ACTUAL ARTICLE