Dadio's 3D Printing Stuff

[Dadio]

I've now got all the wheels and bogies finished with the softer springs , i also modelled up the transmission ,receiver , multi function unit and speaker , placed them in the hull and made mountings , the speaker in its plastic box would not fit so i removed it and made a small mounting for it .

[coxbros1]

cool.... using vintage bag motors!

[Dadio]

Test print of rear hull , mostly really good but the mounts for the RX need a little adjustment and i might move the tracks out another mm for greater clearance of the bogies .




Probably going to have to add ballast up front as it already seems tail heavy .

[Dadio]

Spent ages today adding rivets to the front of the model , also printed a revised rear hull and installed the transmission and electronics , took some more time to further spilt up the front of the model to minimise supports .

[matt1ptkn]

This is such a cool "little" project. What is that multi-function unit from? I have no need for one, but it seems like a very handy device to have on hand, just in case a project arises.

Edit: Just re-read and saw that its a Heng Long combo ESC/RX.

[Dadio]

The electronics and transmission are from a Heng Long 1/16 Tiger Tank the older generation of Heng Long tanks like mine are 27meg with crystals , they have a separate RX that has a lead that plugs into the Multi Function Unit (MFU) , the MFU then has a built in ESC so both motors plug into it but so does everything else on the tank , turret rotation , main gun elevation , speaker for simulated sounds , smoke generator for exhaust etc etc , they all plug into the MFU and respond to signals from the transmitter .
The more recent generation of Heng Long tanks have gone to modern 2.4 gig and I'm not sure what the electronics are like but from reviews it sounds like they are greatly improved , I just had an old tank laying around to rob for parts and won't be fitting anything other than the transmission and sound speaker as I don't have much room , theoretically I could have a Bren gun with sound and simulated muzzle flash and maybe a driver who's head turned by using the turret turn function but I don't think I'll get that far .

[Dadio]

Front wings printed.


Also finished all the rivets

I've got the front hull printing now and should be finished when i get home .

[Dadio]

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[Dadio]

Front seating with switches and volume control in gunners seat base .

[Dadio]

Rear superstructure done , still small details to make , paint etc but its getting there now .


the next two show the engine compartment lid is removable to fit a battery

[Dadio]

Swapped out most of the screws for matching ones and tried my first test drive , nothing ! Checked I had matching crystals in the old 27meg radio RX and TX and I noticed the plug for the crystal in the RX was loose , it had come unsoldered so a quick dab of solder and tried again and success ! All worked perfectly but not as fast as I'd like so I'm going to look into my choices , I can either try to find a bigger pinion or there are upgrade motors sold for these gearboxes that don't cost a fortune .

[Dadio]

Paint arrived so i can get that started later , I've also found some better motors Mabuchi RS380SH that should give a little more speed and a couple of 12t pinions instead of 10t , I'm not looking for fast just nippy as they should be , the regular red upgrade motors are 390's and too long to fit in my hull plus they are £35 delivered and the Mabuchi's are only £6.67 the pair delivered !
More soon .

[Dadio]

Got some paint on , ran out so i need more and then it needs dirtying up .

[XLR8]

Absolutely incredible! I'm blown away!!
To think this began as spools of plastic thread - it's simply awesome.
Congratulations Dadio, your 3d modeling and building skills have reached the stratosphere. Is there anything you can't make?

[Dadio]

Wine