Texas_3D_Customs

https://tx3dcustoms.com/products/ford-fe-cobra-427?_pos=1&_sid=c156793dd&_ss=r Been available for a while now

I am not joel and he is Iceman Collections

I bet you hate me now that I have an actual day cab, but you are very brave and talented to get those doors off

So something I am working on, and about done, I will be releasing this and a triple 4BBL version probably tomorrow and a quad turbo at a later time. Because who doesn't wish Ford made a V12 Cammer

I busted my rear the last few days trying to get everything out. I even got an order this morning that I fulfilled, now if it's ready and made which a lot of things are in 1:24 and some in 1:18 I will try to pack it before I leave, now if 10 people order today, unlikely, there's no way I have a lot to do to get ready but I will try. But I have no way to make anything anymore All my printers are drained all my alcohol is drained out of my washing machines The air conditioner's been turned way up there's just no way to make anything. Fortunately I can control mine air conditioners remotely so I will turn them on the day before I get home and depending on what's in my queue I should be able to get back up and running and about a couple hours after getting home the next day because when I get home in the middle of the night ain't nothing going to happen but sleep.

Now I thought this was just a post about people supplying this wheel now I understand how I misinterpreted the first few post and I pulled my pictures down that was bad on me and I apologize I was legitimately confused about what this post was. I read the first post it didn't really have a link to someone's site or page it was just like hey what if someone made these I posted without reading everything and that's on me but still look man I was just stating a fact the first time You definitely rub me the wrong way and I responded I wasn't even going to put mine here I have my own thread and I did listen there but you when I try to offer some insight got a little snarky You can say that you weren't but you were but I tell you what go on with this I pulled anything referencing anything I make up from there and like I said I apologize that was bad on me. As far as you being snarky or not towards me I was legitimately just trying to point out something about wheels and I made the same mistake when I first started making them undersized because you know logically a 15-in wheels 15 in but it's not in fact I went out and measured my wheels on my Mustang which are 20s and they're about 22 in on the flange face I started doing a little more research and you know it is what it is I was just trying to offer some insight.

Yes I have many many tires and different styles but you'd have to visit my site to understand So if you buy like a 15x8 tire there are several options for 15x8 they're separate items gives you the ability to make just about any combination you could ever want everything is sold in pairs so I can the 15-in line there's scat tracks BF Goodrich TAs torque twisters drag radials slicks off-road tires and a few others and then street tires I have quite a few options So basically buy a set of wheels and whatever combination you want and then you buy the corresponding size tires but everything's standardized everything's printed rubber for the tires too So think of it like a tire shop go buy a set of wheels and then you pick different tires that fit them

So I am off to colorado Saturday all orders as of now have been shipped but I have been very busy in the wheel department. Lots of new wheels and tires listed including these four today. All orders that are made while I am gone will be filled first in first out unless they are big orders but will fill them as soon as the parts are available. The password to my site is Colorado2023, but understand I will be out until August 7th.

I stand corrected I see now how it all worked out and I just didn't understand what was going on My bad.

I quoted the whole post no need to get cranky just trying to put perspective on it. But normally I dont even make posts helping out competition.

17mm is not overscalled by realism. 17mm in 1:24 scale is 16" a 15" wheel is 15" OD on the barrel you need to add in 1-2" for the flange a lot of people overlook that. 15.6mm is ~15" 1:24/25, 17mm is more correctly scaled for how a wheel actually looks from the street.

Well I am not going for speed, in my mind if what they say is true then on my Mega 8K it should help with suction forces regardless of what resin you are using, now I will say it may or may not help with that, its quieter and seems to release easier, but there definitely is a texture that wasn't there before. Now I did an identical print on two Elegoo Saturns using rubber resin. I printed the hardest tire I have that shows layer lines, the release did appear to be better but not as good as they say. There definitely is a difference in visual appearance though and its very obvious. On the rubber tires its not necessarily a bad thing but its there. I also am not the only one who has noticed check this youtube video

So you have ACF film and didn't notice a texture on the prints? The texture I noticed is very obvious with rubber resin and mildly noticable with abs like resin. I am not the only one who has mentioned this either. I got my ACF from chitusystems where did you get yours?

If anyone wants to paint and build the engine for him for thanks with the help let me know.

So I called up William at the Carroll Collection, he has one under a glass case and thinks he has the dimensional drawings for it. Told me he will call me back next week and send me over anything he has. I told him I would send him a model engine if I can get it done.

So the link is the right one but no units or measurments, the above drawing is not the right type, that is like the supercharger I have on my SBF

The intake manifold is easy to fake it till you make it, its just a cross ram intake with two log style plenums, its the superchargers that are what is bothering me, one the intake should be in the back but no filter? second the actual diameter of the housing and the different steps if you have the die cast can you take measurements for me and we can assume thats close enough to scaled accurately? also the measurements of the engine to check the accuracy of the scale.

Those are really not good pics, let me get through my current projects and vacation I will look at making something even if it's not perfect it's bound to be popular

Here is the main issue, I have no idea what those look like from various angles, and how big they are. the bracket and belts are easy the intake is not too hard, its those blower units, I will be honest I can draw something up but I hate just drawing random things as good enough.

So one of the bottom lines that is also relevant is what is that persons time worth. Don't get me wrong I try to stay humble, but for me, doing this instead of working in my "normal" profession needs to be at least in the ballpark of what I can make going back to work for the man. Now I did take a pay hit doing this, but the benefits of working for myself are worth it. For example I am going to Colorado the first week of August, I didn't have to ask permission for when I was going to take vacation, but I have only had one run in with an issue like that anyways, but there were times my boss would call me Sunday night and tell me to get on a plane Monday morning to do a customer visit and I wasn't asked I was told.

I will say it can be done much cheaper than what I do, but output will be limited and you will be a slave to the machines. I have enough machines that I don't have to turn them over immediately. Normally I run then 2-3 times a day depending on the machine and the print running. Obviously at 12-14 hours a print to do 1:8 I don't run that more than once a day. Also the machines I use to post process are excessive, but it improves workflow and quality. You could do it as cheap as a single small printer like a Mars 3 or even Mars 4 Max and make a little side money manually washing and curing in the sun, but that's not a good way to run a business, plus the quality of a poor washing system is very obvious at least to me.

So I started this as a side hustle, my personal life became non-existent. Get home from work wash parts, eat dinner, start prints, read with boys at bedtime, pack, That was the order of my evenings, and I worked 5 minutes from home and would even come home at lunch and work on it. I would go to bed around 2-3 AM every night to get up at 7. A decision had to be made, so with that said I almost shut down the business just to do on demand orders if I felt like it. There was and still is a lot of risk doing what I did, job security as a senior engineer is pretty good as I could get a job in a matter of days, now I am in a position that if this fails in say 5 years how do you go back. I will say I do enjoy it and have over 10 years of printing experience and a decade more of working as an engineer using CAD and subtractive manufacturing, think mills and lathes.

Don't waste the time and money, they dont work really well to be honest. That is how I made my own DIY curing chamber way back when. They will turn most of the time, you have to very specifically make sure the solar panel gets lots of UV and they are really small.

I can tell you its not all that its hyped up to be. yes it does release easier, but it leaves a strange texture on the prints. It may have its purpose but overall I don't like it