About 2-3 months ago, I printed up some WWI planes to play the Algy ruleset. P-Y had already printed some planes from Thingiverse and painted them up. We have already had a couple of fun games. I always, however, like having my own toys and I thought it would be a bit of fun to try to print and paint some planes for myself. There was no real cost and it would be a learning experience for me in respect to 3D resin printing, the planes are quite small and they looked like a challenge to print. From what I understand WWI pilots being the individuals that they were were allowed to pick their own colour schemes for their planes.
They have been done for a while now, I have noticed this summer that the polyurethane is taking longer and longer to dry and I hate photographing miniatures so there was some delay to taking the snaps. Time to take them off the table, so I took some photos today. I really need a better light source and I will get to it soon enough, I am in the middle of a massive move of my wargaming stuff from Massachusetts to Montreal and that is taking quite a bit of my time.
I am not even sure of the scale, I printed these planes at, but I think it might be 1/285. The WWII 1/600 planes were a lot of work to paint and I was not going to go there. I think it might have been a lot easier to print them at 1/144 as you will see they were a bit of a challenge to print. P-Y had already printed at 1/285 so I decided I would stick with that.
I did 5-6 trial prints with different supports before I got something barely acceptable but they did paint up nice enough aside from some missing struts/wheels as well as some bent wings. They are certainly useable though. The colour schemes are completely my own!
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Well they are being put away in a box, I will apply some matt in a few months and that will be it.
Nice work!
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