On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 15:38:01 +0000, dennis@home
wrote:

On 26/02/2017 02:30, T i m wrote:
On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 23:38:57 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

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What sort of things have you printed? I'm thinking replacements
for broken parts on other things. Or you need an odd shape to form
part of something you're building, and cutting wood/metal into that
shape would be difficult.

I forgot to add the following to the list of things you could print
with it ... ;-)

https://www.thingiverse.com/


I have been printing n scale (1:148) ww1 tanks from there for a
fortnight now.

Cool. Fun innit. ;-)

I have been giving them away to people at the railway club who are
modelling ww1 trains.

And the beauty of having a 3D printer in that you can often (and often
easily) make things you can't get, or get easily or cheaply and cheap
enough to be able to give away. ;-)

You can buy them in white metal but they are just too heavy.

And if you wanted 'weight' in a plastic printed model you could print
it hollow and fill it with lead shot.

What printer do you have OOI?

Cheers, T i m