Miguel wrote:
Pieter wrote:
With some clever sanding he could have turned this into a nice representation of 'oil canning' on a welded hull surface.
Is a waist of time trying to do that in White Natural Versatile Plastic ,the best can be done is to seal the material with either putty or cyanoacrylate glue and then later do the canning with paint effect.
That material is truly horrible for serious modelling ,is good for war gaming or playing around,the surface is so rough that looks like sandpaper with stretch marks,the minimum quality I will buy from a 3D printed ship will be PA12 and up
Yes, the White Natural Versatile Plastic is an SLS process and the material is Nylon. With a LOT of work it can be made presentable. But forget about doing any modification work, cutting, filing, etc. It does not react well to any of that.
The Fine Detailed Plastic is an SLA process and its resin is not too dissimilar to the resin we are all already familiar with. Furthermore, it's much more workable. The only downside I've seen is that it can be brittle. But that has as much to do with the size of the item (figure, 3D printing allows us to make some tiny details) as it does have to do with the material it is made out of. The models I produce are only offered in the FDP, barring a very few exceptions for larger scale and model dependence (I do a 1/48 F-82 Mustang radome out of WVP, the FDP equivalent was too expensive though I do offer that too if someone wants to bite). The shame of it is that Shapeways pricing for FDP is such that while I can make a business case for most items in 1/350, other scales (and subject dependent of course), they become too expensive and price themselves out of the market. The threshold in 1/350 seems to be full submarines. These get expensive, quick. I've not sold a single Ula class, and the problem is the price. No one wants to spend $80 for a 1/350 Ula, and I get it. I did it for me, so if anyone else wants one, have at it. A model like that should be priced around $35-40 at most (Ulas are small). But the base price is $73 from Shapeways! And this after a lot of spruing and respruing to see how it changes the price. I've done my best and I can't get the price any lower.
Point of all this is...
Fine Detail Plastic is a pretty nice material, and I just wish the pricing was more amenable to the market I'm aiming it at.
White Versatile Plastic sucks. Period.
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