Madness I tell you!

[GDS_Starfury]

its all 100% scratch built!   

http://charb1bis.blogspot.com/

[Steelgrave]

Maybe just a touch...obsessive.

[GDS_Starfury]

theres no such thing in model building.

[Con]

I think the madness lies in the choice of model.  If you are going to go down the crazy path what better tank than a Char...

con

[GDS_Starfury]

I've always liked the aesthetic of it.

[mirth]

Just thinking about this makes me want to kill myself

I didn't feel like doing any major modelling today so to be productive I heat formed a number of nuts, the razor blade is to slice them off the sprue. The sprue I used is from Meng which is a nice soft plastic. Different manufacturers plastic has different working properties, this one's just right.

Yeah, well as long as it wasn't anything major...

[GDS_Starfury]

there is an element of multitasking involved.
one thing I used to do in my armor heyday was to clean up track links and whatnot while watching tv.

[mirth]

Really I just wanted to quote this:

I heat formed a number of nuts, the razor blade is to slice them off

Truly a hobby for you, Star ol' buddy.

[GDS_Starfury]

make all of the jokes you want to. 
until you've had Smuck's steamed towel and straight razor special you haven't lived.

[MikeGER]

the sad thing is:
in a few years you upload extremely high detail blue prints of that tank into your home rapid prototyping 3D printer... an two days later it spits out a model just as detailed as that ....and probably with different full colored material in hundreds of shades and nuts that have a bigger size can even be unscrewed because they are threaded and a non-adhesive spacer-powder to separate it from its threaded bolt was printed in the tiny gaps of the thread 

the next day you say you want it 'double sized' and a few days later ...take it out of the printerbox, or in that case retrieve it from the 3D printshop for larger items

[BanzaiCat]

And here I thought some of the guys I've read about that do incredible detail into full-scale sets for their Blood Bowl stadiums are obsessive. This guy transcends that and makes it an art form.

[GDS_Starfury]

Mike, thats already pretty common place these days as the price of 3d printing has come down.  in fact, those are usually used as the molds for a lot of garage type kits.  it still takes tons of work though and the finished kits look great.

[MikeGER]

yes:-)
i was looking in the future when a home 3d printer gets as common as a fridge in the 60ies - and problay comes in that size also, but that maschine will produce items with different material characteristics, like transparent plastic, floppy plastic (foam), plastic in all color shades, and  'reinforced'- plastic, where  tiny filaments of glass, carbon or aramid fiber gets 'somehow woven' into the item when it get printed
also conductive-plastic, and of course 'spacing powder', that will separate later moving parts and can be blown out or washed out of the item composed off all those different materials.
pure metall-item or ceramic-item 3d printer will remain in the printshop or home depot market i guess.... to expensive, to much heat to shield, to dangerous lasers inside, for run out of the mill costumers ...but available for enthusiast with a garage (like a chuck lathe and welding unit and kiln today)               

[undercovergeek]

did a medical conference last week and a guy had a 3d printer no bigger than a microwave and it was making replacement arteries for surgery - i could have watched it all day

[GDS_Starfury]

you did a medical conference for a week? 

can you walk?