yogi-bear

I am looking forward to your action shots for this one!

hmm, I'll probably put my order for a month or two now, I'm chasing a some Marui cars at the moment, and that will deplete the funds for bit. Still once here the Hornets hopefully will stick around for a bit. I was surprised how long kits like the Fox stayed and at decent prices too.

cheers, thats new! Maybe they are starting to trickle in

I wouldn't say the plastics in 3D printing are necessarily hobby grade, you can get some really nice plastics to use, but, for your common FDM 3D printing, the biggest problem is more the process it uses to form the part. The layer lines of 3D printing will always have an inherent weakness. Still with the right design and careful printing you can make functional parts, maybe not every part, but it's doable to a degree. Recasting in resin is a great idea (there are also people who have had some success making dies for injection molded parts), but with resins I don't think you can match all (yet) of the properties you can get in some plastics in the one resin. So for example there are some resins, like dental resin, that are definitely stronger than many plastics you get in modern RC cars, but it would more likely shatter rather than flex when it hits it's limit. Still there are new formulations coming out all the time, so this may change. There are other options as well, I have 3D printed bucks or molds for vac forming and that can work quite well for limited runs. I have also 3D printed dies to press aluminium sheets, and that works surprisingly well even with PLA. And going back to the resin casting idea, one thing I want to try is metal casting aluminium from a 3D print, apparently that is not too hard to do.

the best one for me was looking everywhere for me keys only to have them in my other hand, with my finger though the ring that holds them all together and my hand scrunched around them so they weren't directly visible. I have also gone on many a search for sunglasses only to realise they were on my head.

April! Thanks and dood to know though, must be popular. They are available at RCjazz at a price I was expecting (about $250 AUD), but shipping is about half that!

ok, I understand there may not be too much interest in this topic! So anyone in Australia got their hands on an Hornet Evo yet? I was dead keen to get a Hornet Evo as a Christmas project, being a fan of the original and it looks to be a good update to a classic. Release date was somewhere Oct/Nov, so I thought, I should be able to get one for Christmas. However it soon became apparent it wouldn't be available here until at least late Jan. I could have gotten one from RCjaz, but freight made it still quite expensive, and there are few listed on eBay from Japan and they are even more expensive. I am keen but not that keen! So Jan has been and gone and none of the hobby stores I check have an eta yet, so what gives? Is this kit that popular, us far away folks won't see it for a while?

I think I am a bit the same as you, I have thoughts all over the place, jumping from project to project (I suspect I have undiagnosed ADHD, as the test my daughter did, I ticked a lot of boxes as well, and we share many of the same traits) and I am messy by nature, but try to be neat. As I age and my collection is now getting a bit too big, plus add in model kits, some hot wheels, Lego and the occasion Star Wars figurine. I am out of space and need to tidy just to be able to deal with what I have, even if I didn't want to. Although I do want to be neat, I just struggle with it. I have taken the approach of trying to find permanent spots for things, and packing away other stuff I am not dealing with yet somewhere safe. To that, if I can't see it, I might stay on track with the current project, so focussing on one or two things lately has been a goal of mine too. One big bug bear for Mrs Yogi-bear was leaving stuff on the kitchen table, I tended to work at the table as I am still around people. To address that I have a small portable kitchen trolley from Ikea that I can pack everything in to when done. For me it's about changing how I do things, but not too quickly, otherwise it doesn't stick. I took the same approach with exercising. I had always wanted to exercise daily, but it never really stuck until I changed my approach. I made it simple, just to a couple of stretches, a couple of minutes tops each morning. That way the task didn't seem too onerous. Then I'd add in say some push ups, and get use to that, and once that was ingrained, I'd add something else in. I am trying to do this with tidying up, so when I go to do something, I try and tidy a little first. Habits can be hard to break, but some small steps to change I think are the key.

yeah, I might need to dry the filament more, plus at the moment I am needing to change the desiccant about every 3 weeks top. I try disabling the first layer check, hadn't thought of that.

thats a nice distinctive colour! The prints look good too, I've been trying PETG printing lately, but it has been a bit hit and miss. Some parts were very nice, but I am getting some stringing in some areas, whereas all your prints look good.

I have seen some of this before on YouTube, looks to be a hoot to do

understandable, but a shame you won't run it, it would look good in action.

I have a slightly similar one, in thats its an orange casing and the heat sink bars (they would almost be standard back then to dissipate the heat), by Graupner, but I don't think its that brand.

there is Knight Customs - https://knightcustoms.com I'm pretty sure he is a member here?, if not I have I have seen images in some of the built threads and part quality looks amazing (Have not bought myself, but now browsing the site, that may change in the near future). He as a VW style engine printable stl for sale. While the site lets you buy the stl files (not what you want), there also has links to authorised 3D printers that may be of use.

they look pretty cool! and cheap! any chance of a link?

they look really nice though!

Hi Carmine, I have both a Bambu XC1 and a Creality K1 Max, both print very well out of the box, and easy to setup and start printing. My only issue is that customer support exists for Creality, but it very slow! I currently have an issue with me K1 and it is being sorted, but its taking way too long. Some things in no particular order: you can download many files for free, so that will get you started, so you don't need to know 3D modelling straight away. I would do some calibration tests early on, just to dial in the machine a little better. Start simple and work your way up to more complex parts. The easiest filament to print is PLA (Creality will supply you with some of there Hyper PLA, it is pretty good). You will want to keep your filament as dry as possible, too much and you will get errors. I ended up buying a Creality filament dryer and extra deciscant as here in Queensland it can get really humid. Once you have mastered PLA, you will eventually want to move onto other filaments like ABS, ASA, TPU etc. Each have their own uses, and challenges. Depending on what you are printing, part orientation can be very important for strength. Parts will be weaker along the layer lines and is one reason I print bodies at an angle. As for making files, you have a bit of a learning curve, but there are lots of choices in programs now and lots of tutorials on YouTube. TinkerCad and Fusion360 and two popular ones that come to mind, as both can be used for free. I opted to learn fusion360 as in the end it can do more (but probably harder to learn to begin with) and I can now make things like rims and basic parts with not too much hassle. With Fusion360 you can fully replicate whole cars if you want, see what @silvertriple has done. You will eventually run into issues, either with prints not sticking, blocked nozzles, etc, but there is lots of info available around to help sort that out. I need to run off to work now, but they are some basics, I am sure others will chime in with other tips, and have fun with it!

cool, now I know my savings target

cool, I've from Brissy, so only vaguely know Sydney, its been a while since I was last there. Those tires look a lot better!

howdy, that almost looks like the Blue Mountains? For my CC01 I am intending (but haven't yet) adding lead weights to weight it down and lower the cg.

I'm kinda in the same boat, I have used Afterpay a couple of times to get a bargain that I hadn't saved for, and no extra cost, much like laybying in the old days.

my next projects centre around rebuilding a heap of Marui Hunter and Galaxy cars I have. I've started printing replacement parts for the bits I don't have using @silvertriple files. Although I am having some issues with my printer. While I dither on the printer issues, I am also working on the Marui Mitsubishi builds. I have some spare bodies from the test prints and over Christmas I managed to source a Comic Hornet Chassis. So fitting a body to the chassis has begun.

my take as I have had both good times and bad times. Both my wage and my wife's wage goes into paying bills etc. Bills, food and housing etc always come first. What is left over goes towards extras like entertainment and for me of course RC. I do basic budgets and from that work out what is left over and from that Ms Yogi-Bear and I get a 'weekly' spend on whatever you want amount. In lean times it's not been much in good times it goes up, although if things are very good, I tend to direct extra funds to paying off the mortgage. We also make sure we direct some funds to savings in some way. So in short, budget and work out what you can actually have leftover to spend on fun things, share with wife, she is your life partner after all.

Tomley RC does an excellent review on one of these:

I have a couple of modelling books from Gerald Wingrove, while not easy (probably more tedious than anything), he does show how to make the tires and rims completely from scratch. So I think it's definitely possible, something I'd like to try one day.