Nicolas
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I got the Dragon kit as part of the Mistel 5 in my stash, so I'm watching with great interest.

Frank Brzobohaty
Those are some good design skills, wish I could do that.

Frank Brzobohaty
Would you consider providing the STL files for personal use as I have a couple of Arado Ar 234 (4 engines) to build in the near future and will give credit for the files to you?

PanR Auteur
Hi Frank, so far I'm not considering any sharing of my models.
I can recommend you Cults3D or Yeggi services, it's pretty good places to find STLs. I downloading or buying things there very often. My MG-151 gun here is downloaded from web. Also, I will print the Luftwaffe pedals and control stick which I bought in Cults3D earlier. I'll just downscale it from 1/32 to 1/72.

Spanjaard
beautiful printed 3D details

DerMattes
@PanR are these stls meant to be downscaled like this? In my experience the thickness of the parts is not enough so they get very fragile or do not print at all. Or do you edit them before or after downscaling?

PanR Auteur
I just giving it a shot 🙂
Yes, I know that it may not be enough for stable print. But, as long as I'm not a company which need the product with guaranteed quality, I can experiment. So far it's going okay, but from 10 printed pedals, for example, I can use only 7 or 8. Then 2-3 more may be damaged during detach from supports because it's really tiny.
Also, one lever on control stick don't want to be printed, I'm going to play with supports but seems like it because of downscaling which you described

Frank Brzobohaty
Yes experimenting is needed, I ounce set the support connection to a too small attachment point and 3 hours latter all i got on the entire build plate was the supports. connection was too fragile to stand up to the forces in the print process and everything detached. Live and Learn.

FYI I just posted a SH-60b build where I used 1/35 scale STL's and just scaled them down to 1/72 with no problems. What I have learned is the support thing is the hardest thing to get right. Too little the fail, too many they break the print when taking them off.

PanR Auteur
Yeah, I can't agree more.
I have few years of experience on Formlabs printer and after I got some skills and my own 3D printer, I don't trust automatical supports at all, always making them by myself. And I trying to put few main supports with 0.25-0.5 contact point and bunch of just tiny supports with 0.01-0.1 contact. So far, it mostly works.