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I have emailed him, should show up here soon.

Leather seats - difficult to work when wrapping around corners. Wrinkles. Easier to work in 2 dimensions.

Airtrax makes a 1/24 Cortina.

Darn it , Bill, quit tempting me.

Work in progress in computer, 1951 Ferrari 340 America - 1951 MM winner, to be 3d printed.

Ferrari 340 Mexico, 1/24th scale by ABC.

Early Ferrari? This is almost as early as you can get.

Here's a pic of the Airtrax Ferrari 330GTC. I've filled the pinholes and primered it. It's a beautiful car and a good kit. For the Airtrax price list, Mr. Obsessive posted it on another thread, easy to find using the search function.

Superb work!

Since we've been discussing scanning, here is an example of a full scale scan that has been output as a model. I can't tell the scale or if it was cut out by cnc or 3d printed but I thought it may interest some of you guys. BTW, that stl file can be downloaded and printed; anyone for a 1973 Ranchero model? I have tried to do this at concours by taking lots of photos but the bright reflections ruined the production of the mesh. The light has to be broad and subdued, as on a cloudy day. Link: https://grabcad.com/library/ford-ranchero-73-3d-scan-1

I couldn't do what I do without SU's plugins, especially Solid Inspector 2, the stl importers and exporters and Bezier Curve. I've been doing printed rims with predrilled holes for several years but it will be printed with spokes from now on. Modelmartin will be producing a Bug T50 Profile (fastback) body with correct wheels.

I had the rims and hubs printed, then hand strung them. They are not in my shop because it's necessary to have a jig to hold them and require a lot of patience to string. However with the advent of relatively low cost printers that will make high resolution parts, I am refining my design skills to design spoked wheels (it's not easy) that can be printed. I use Sketchup , Bilingham uses Fusion360, which is a better Cad program. But I'm pretty good at SU.

Which ones did you get from Shapeways? ACME member Bilingham has some there that have printed wire wheel spokes that are very good. The spokes are .015" in diameter.

Heller kits are very "fiddly" , but worth the effort.

You would get much better results resin casting it.

It could be done but I wouldn't suggest it, because of the amount of detail you would lose. I suggest you download Fusion 360, learn it, then you could design anything you want. To a higher detail level than you are getting with those kit engines.

Just got this in. The two gray wheels were printed by Model Builders Warehouse and are untouched - no sanding, no clear finish, no nothing. . The larger wire wheel is from Shapeways. It is painted with Molotow chrome, so you can see the surface detail, which is pretty good; but I gave it a light sanding with 1200 sandpaper to knock down the fuzz. The gray wheel's surface, on the other hand are shiny and almost blemish free. This is the best hobbyist 3d printing I have seen. Contact Randy Ditton - randy@modelbuilderswh@com.

Regard3d: http://www.regard3d.org/ This home brew method makes a body with more unevenness' on it than a professional scan but costs nothing. I notice that you have produced a body from a video game download ( I thought I was the first to do that but you beat me by several years - see my Fiat 8V Supersonic) so you know how to modify a mesh for 3d printing. The mesh will have a very high poly count so you probably will have to reduce it using Meshlab. Preparing it for photos is not difficult but it's necessary to know how to do it correctly. I made a turntable marked in degrees, so that I would be shooting at a consistent angle. If you make too many photos on one side, the mesh will be weak on the other side. Make the background featureless. Use a broad, flat light. Use a small f-stop for greatest depth of field, try to keep the entire model in focus. Strip the model and paint with white primer - no highlights - and add plenty of texture to it so that there are many points for the algorithms to refer to, in making the mesh. I like the idea of a Ford Comete, very attractive little cars. Good luck!

Hiring a designer will cost you $$, so I suggest you download Fusion360 (it's free) and learn it. You can make anything you want with it and you'll understand why designers cost $$. https://www.autodesk.com/campaigns/fusion-360-for-hobbyists

You can hire a designer through Shapeways to make what you want: https://www.shapeways.com/hire/designer

This will be my first printing project when I complete my printer. Took a 1/43 scale model, took 50 images of it, uploaded to a site that used the images to produce a mesh, which I downloaded and modified to make it printable. Then scaled it to 1/24th scale. I now have it in a program that makes the supports for printing (in yellow) and slices it for the printer. You can hire 3d printers with scanners to do this for you, so you can make in 1/24th anything that can be scanned. Of course, it can be output in 1:1, if you are really serious.

Yes it is.

Ace - You attending ACME meeting this Sunday?

Here is the first skiff bodied car. Labourdette built the body on a 1914 Panhard & Levasour chassis. This is a replica built in the 70's.

Thanks for the compliments, guys. "Moving across the arc of media" ? Darn, that's some mighty flighty prose there, Bernard. And I thought I was just doin' the best I could under the circumstances. Chris - excellent explanation about Shapeways quality. BTW, I thought I was the first, and only modeler to use a video game car to make a 3d printed model; but I see in another thread that you beat me by several years. The "Supersonic" was printed by Steven Furick, but I am building a DLP printer, so if I get a hot flash I can bang something out in the middle of the night.