It's official, I can now make jewellery. After some experiments with investment casting in tin, I moved on to bronze, just to see what it's like. While the results of the first casting run in bronze could have been better, I know exactly what I need to do for future runs to improve metal flow…
Miniature Foundry
Well, it took long enough, but my miniature foundry is finally up and running. What this means is that I am finally able to turn digital models into metal objects using a combination of 3D printing and investment casting. https://www.bitchute.com/video/FiGKl0VjXzoR/ There are means to fabricate metal objects via 3D printing directly, such as my personal…
The Growing 3D Print Hobby
During my senior year of college, my rapid prototyping professor said that he expected, within a few years, that fused deposition modelling (FDM) printers would become as common as inkjet printers were back then (2012), and every college dorm room would have one. I think it's safe to say that he was correct, judging by…
Organising Shop Inventory and Expanding Capabilities
As my inventory of wargaming miniatures keeps expanding, I find that I can no longer store them all in my little tackle box that I also keep my modelling tools in. From now on, therefore, I'll be keeping only single samples of each variant that I have, and all of my other inventory will be…
Where Am I?
As my workload becomes more varied, I find myself having to move back and forth between my 3D print shop (and likely future location of the foundry) and my machine shop. This wouldn't be a problem, except that my machine shop is in Pennsylvania, and my 3D print shop is in Maryland. Travel between them…
Tips for Printing Your Own Miniature Tanks
Since I'm getting more orders for tank files on Wargaming 3D, I thought I would share some tips for those who own resin printers. I use a Formlabs Form 3 for printing my models, but for those who have a different machine, such as the Anycubic Photon S, most of what I'm about to discuss…
So, You Want to Print Your Own Sailing Ships? Well, Here’s What You’re in For.
Variations on that title serve as the beginning of every video description in my latest 3D Print Shop episode on BitChute. This is the first episode of this series that is divided into multiple parts, given how much footage I had to work with, and it is mostly unedited. My purpose for doing so was…
Important Print Shop Update
Today, I start running castable wax in the Form 3! This is an important development, because it means I can start making my own jewellery. I'll be able to include as much detail as I want, rather than being constrained to whatever doesn't get obliterated by the overly aggressive polishing processes that Shapeways uses. Hopefully,…
New Tank Database
Today, I finally finished work on a second tank model database. Unlike a previous post on this blog, which is for Shapeways models, the new database is for models that I'm printing myself. The new database is up on my website, and contains direct links to main entries as well as individual products, along with…
Expanding Miniature Inventory
Today, I took another batch of pictures and posted them to Steemit. Click here to see them all. I'm building up an inventory of 1:285 scale tanks, while also testing some of my model ships. Some of these ships I will sell the files for on Wargaming 3D, but others I'm just making for fun,…
Kaja's Kreations 