Fair enough.  I'll tinker with some ideas for the goodies I mentioned and then email them to you.  I think I still have your email address...

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It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I've got my Milkbone underwear on.

Should I move this thread the the 6mm modelling forum for it to get more exposure?

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Now living in Boston... any EPIC players want to meet up?

I'd rather wait until there's an actual modeled part. For the time being, it's just fan art.

Maybe Monday will be my lucky day.

WOW !! nice gun. i too would have to buuy another set of revenants if these became available, the rest of your projects sound good too. How about a 40k style fire prism turret ? ide be in for a bunch of those.

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Well, the part arrived on my doorstep yesterday. I was worried that the details wouldn't be there, but the opposite was more of the case. The barrel looks longer on the printed part than it does on the screen. I don't know if that's because of some distortion during printing or maybe an optical illusion due to the part being clear vs. the solid part on the screen. The 'under-bar' of the gun looks too thin, as does the cable from the bar to the receiver.

Being my first 3D print, I made some mistakes that I will have to correct in my next attempt. I need to study the part a bit more, and figure out some practical minimum size limits for certain details. I'm thinking that any protruding part is going to have to be a minimum of 0.04" accross its smallest dimension. However, detail on a broad surface can be smaller. Based on the results, I will have to go back through all the other stuff I have worked on, and revise some details. The end result will be things will be a bit bulkier than a straight to-scale conversion. However, that's probably a good thing, since that will end up matching the style of the rest of the epic model line.

I've poured the first half of the mold. I am doubtful that the underbar and fins will cast properly, but we'll see. I can always scratch build those. I figure that fact will limit any outside interest in the part.

Here is a render of the part I had printed, it's a full sprue rather than a single gun, and at least that part of my experiment is a success. The legs on the sprue allowed me to pour the bottom half of the mold directly into the mold box (no need to use a temporary clay base.

That part is made of pure awesome!

D.

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Looks great! Fingers crossed for the casting!

Hey, why isn't this in the 6mm modelling topic? I almost never come to this part of the board.

Great work on the piece! I'm very pleased that you're doing Eldar parts, simply because I don't like to do them, but feel they deserve love anyway.

The printing of a sprue seems interesting, and I should explore that a little more.

What print service are you using? You mentioned Memphis, is it AcuCast?

Well, I didn't want to spread the word around too much, before the part was made real. Once I get the thing cast, I'll take lots of pics and show it off.

The printing of a sprue seems interesting, and I should explore that a little more.

Was your piece blue and waxy?

Edit - wow, that sounds weird.

That piece looks great semajnollissor!

Just when I thought I was done buying Epic Eldar...  

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"You'll never understand how much watching other people's pain gets me off, hearing their screams and knowing that I have the power of a god." -Velvet Acid Christ

Ah, takes me back to high school.

But seriously, it was blue. I dunno about waxy, i didn't handle it. It went straight from the shipping box into the molding box.

Just when I thought I was done buying Epic Eldar...

Yup, I agree that's what they're going to do.

Ahh Galactica I will miss you! Best show on TV is gone   ....

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-Malakai

"You'll never understand how much watching other people's pain gets me off, hearing their screams and knowing that I have the power of a god." -Velvet Acid Christ

The Oracle prophesied, et cetera.

However, I think very good painters (Marike, Onyx, etc.) will always be in demand. Time will tell, of course.

Well, no news is bad news...

I'm going to try one more time (I have a plan), but my weekend casting session did not produce good results. The first problem was when I was separating the mold and the printed sprue broke. Luckily, the part survived, so if it comes to it, I can cast them straight (without my cheat sprue). Another problem is that the resin took the path of least resistance (the sprue), and did not fill up the part space. I'll block this part off and see if I can get the resin to flow in the direction that I want. I give it a 50% chance.

If that doesn't work, I'm gonna wait a month (when I have some more spendin' money) and try to print a better arrangement. I have to fix a few things with the part anyway (the cabling is way too small, and some of the gaps are deeper than necessary). We'll see what happens.