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I would look at the anime, since the valk was CG animated it should already be a good compromise between "official" line art and realistic design.If both are the same, then you should be fine!

And they even have a foil!! MT I can't imagine what you can do with 3D printers.

I was pretty amazed by the look of the latest 31j with all the markings. I wished that I could get all my arcadias like that. But now I can't get myself convinced to pay more than a 31J for a VF1. Strike or not

This custom is truly amazing with lights!

It looks fantastic! About the hole in the arm, they don't seem that deep aren't they ? If they are less than 1.5mm deep, they won't be really visible once painted, trust me!

3D printing is the future!

Sculpteo is also based in the USA, I thought also that their US team was greater than the French one.

Generally there is still some wax there, you can use a small metal wire: insert it through the wax and gently go around. At some point the wheel will get loose. Same goes for front wheel

Do you try to upload the DWG exported file from sketchup? this file is not good because the lines are not "connected": you don't have a continuous lines. At this point, you can try to export a 300dpi jpg and have this jpg vectorized. I can make this step at work or if you have a photoshop, it does the vectorized contours automatically. Or certainly a few website would also do that.

Almost lol!

Hayate literally rolling around with his new valk!

Your guess is right Tage, I actually always make a triangle at the end of the bar pointing to a rotation axis, group them together so I can rotate the whole part without zooming in/out the axis. The colors are just for the forum folks! I prefer to stay in the original color to avoid overlapping surfaces! i made the legs, they need to be tighten a bit more, but for now, they are pretty stable and they can be posed!

Thanks a lot! I will probably stay away from these PS cans for now and wait for more colors in TS family

Great question, Salamander would you recommend the PS version (for translucent poly-carbonate) over the TS (for plastic) ? A few PS color are very unique.

Just saw this on Sculpteo. Since I've already tried it, I wouldn't recommend their 3D printing over Shapeways, but the Laser cutting should be fine and would suffer little concurrence. https://www.sculpteo.com/blog/2017/01/11/sculpteos-laser-cut-metal-service-is-available I can see how you can sandwich 3 layers of 1mm and making a super strong design... Only thing is to have the good design for the 3 modes...

I don't know if Jenius refers to my quick fix: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?/topic/39470-arcadia-yf-19-coming-in-2014/&page=169#comment-1246175 since the pictures are down, i just made new ones. As you can see, the tab helps the wing to stay in the good forward position, no change for the high speed mode since this one is very solid and it also doesn't interfere with the battroid mode. But i really think that creating a mechanism inside could bring a more solid solution in the 3 positions and also restricting the movements of the wing that can look crazy in some positions...

Congratulations to this! So if I understand well, you loose the High-Speed mode with this modification ? If you want a great result and more importantly cheap, I would go with acrylic laser cut. A lot of company offer laser cut from PDF or dwg files. To make the drawings, the easiest way is to scan the part with a copier that can send a pdf file, then make it as a drawing and have a few dimensions checked manually with the caliper. Can you take a few pictures of the results with the wing rotating ? I am still interested in making a version with the high speed mode.

I am sure that if you can gather enough to have a big order, then you can contact te seller and ask him to ship internationally. Since the package will be a simple letter, it should be easy for the reseller.

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I received a few 3D prints today, and i have been utterly busy! A few WIP pictures.

Your latest bug happens everytime you ungroup a "Soften Edged" group with its mirror or another group with juxtaposed plans. To avoid the issue, you need to cancel the softening before merging the groups.

I am so impressed by how delicate and detailed this king looks in battroid mode in particular.

Hi Arbit, I am glad another bike and Sharon have found a house! I remember that I made the 1:60 bike a little smaller than the line art to make it match better the pilot size. See on the photo the red-hair guy and the orange pilot are both 1:72 scale. They match up with isamu. I don't own a 1:72 bike, I know there are a few out. So if someone can post a picture that would be nice. But honestly I really like the scale of the bike, if you look again at the "plus" episodes you will find that the bike should be as long as a car!

I know this bug, but unfortunately I don't have a true solution to fix it. It's like if the origin of the "group" changes when you try to modify or scale a member or line in it. So every change applied to the group destroys the global geometry. To fix it, you need to explode or make the whole group again from scratch. Something to avoid this bug, is to reduce the axis change and rotations to this group.