Comment by Gary Mortimer on June 8, 2009 at 4:45pm

Funny how life works, I ve signed up this week with this service to have crack at turning some of my girlfriends work http://www.sarahlovejoy.com into plastic. (shameless plug)

Saw they were at the makers faire when I signed on.

Who'd have thunk it.

Comment by Hugo Vincent on June 8, 2009 at 11:46pm

Wow, 3D printing tech has come a long way! Last I heard the sorts of plastics they use would be far too heavy, brittle or weak for doing something like this. It'll be interesting to see if he can take this to it's logical conclusion and print the main rotor head and blades too (and possibly even the servo horns and push rods).

Comment by Varga András on June 9, 2009 at 7:55am

The Lockheed Polecat UAV is pretty large, but it's 3d printed: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9602-a-plane-you-can-print.html
So this technology can produce strong structures as well, for example, quadrotor blades.

Comment by Varga András on June 9, 2009 at 8:42am

what if you print something and after printing, you reinforce it with fibreglass cloth?

Comment by AludrA_55 on June 9, 2009 at 2:11pm

i checked out the site... kinda expensive though per cm cube... great way to make miniature sculptures though...

Comment by Gary Mortimer on June 9, 2009 at 3:10pm

Well, its expensive for this game, but you must try bronze!!!

I'm going to get thrown off for forum abuse, never thought I would find a tenuous reason to get plugs for my girlfriends sculpting in here!! She's the second one in, looks like she's filing her nails.

Next problem is capturing to 3D her sculptures, I understand grabbing with a scanner is expensive.

Oh boy I'm way off topic.

But Varga has already pointed out that the grown ups use it so best we find out whats what.

Comment by AludrA_55 on June 11, 2009 at 7:54am

cool.. i used to do sculpting too... but i haven't done it for almost 8 years...

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Comment by Wayne Dancer on June 11, 2009 at 9:39am

You know, this makes me want to attempt a papercraft airframe.

Comment by Gary Mortimer on June 11, 2009 at 10:30am

Well I keep touting it and I'm not connected with them in anyway but the best fold your own plane I have made is the Mugi http://www.mugi.co.uk plans are free

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