Wonder why we don't see any articles on 3d printing in MR. I've done quite a few now and they're beautiful. Each print has up to 49 pieces leadig to a very nice model. The really good ones are freee from a fellow modeler in Seattle. Great selection.
What scale are you printing? I've been looking at some printers for N scale for all the buildings on my new layout. Hard to justify the cost of kits when a printer is the same price as a few
There's been a few - back as far as 2014 at least - I think the main thing is that no one is writing them! MR has been having a lack of submissions in general recently from what it sounds like.
Part of it is probably how quickly the field changes - there's a 9-12 month lead time on publishing, and there's a lot that can happen in that time in the field, price wise for printers and such. A year ago the best resin printer you could get at a reasonable price was half the size of the ones you can get now.
Not many in the scratch building. Kitbash area anymore. Probably one reason why. There was just one for c415 and tp56 this year though.
shane
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An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
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The real reason is profit, there is little market for printing code for model railroading and very little advertizing. Things in this feid are chasnging as fast as battery tecnoligy. I remember the first inexpencive resin printers from over 19 years ago I got to see at a gaming convention. They were called emersion printers back then, even the names of things has changed over this time period
I wonder if some of the reason could also be not wanting to lose any sponsorships from some companies, as there are a lot of manufacturers making all sorts of different details that someone could replicate with a 3D printer and distribute the files for free. I remember reading an old article from one of MRR's editors remembering an earlier article he had done where he was disappointed with the results of the model paints he was using for finishing steam engines, so on a whim he went to a hardware store and bought some stove polish. After finishing a steam engine, being impressed with the results and writing about it, they lost a major sponsorship from one of the larger manufacturers of model paints.
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I print in ho, but you can easily comvert by putting a percentage into cura. Look up the table on line. Also, search in Thingaverse for things like pickle factory, yard operations, roundhouse, sawmill, 2 stall engine house among a lot of others.