woody64

test of external printed decals and 3d printed and colored custom hats for civil war era.

Hi after a longer period of silence I'm able to show some freshly printed items from a new 3d printing provider: - smooth surface - printed in white but can be easily painted with Acrylic colors - allows mass prints Also some fresh new designs are visible (torsos are not apropriate): Top Row: - German WW1 helmet (new) - Prussian cap (redesigned) - Bavarian Napoleonic helmet (new) - French Cuirassier - Bearskin with brim (new) - French Shako - Wellington Shako - Horse Artilery - Austrian Dragoon (redesigned) Bottom Row: - Melon - 20th century lady Topf hat (new) - Student "Stürmer" cap (new) - Workers cap 1 (new) - French dragoon (new) - Tall Cylinder (new) - Student hat (new) - Workers cap 2 (new) From an earlier trial there's a 2nd photo showing older designs from the same printing provider: and now painted: Woody64

New items of the last year: round shields and other forms ... Ottomans Etruscian and Thrakians Cataphract Sutton Ho Boethian Roman Apullian Roman Montefortino Roman Burgh Byzantine French WW1 collection Royal Marine Collections (for ships !!!)

O obviously do like it. Did you do the UV print yourself ?

Recently added: Roman archer Viking Roman Cavalry British military Tam

Some recently added items: collection of different middle age helmets top hats Prussian fusilier collection of Austrian WW1 helmets Korsican hat new grenadier design

Patrolling recently I did some updates on my render setup allowing more complex scenes including my own customs. Patrol on the Austrian border supported by Jaegers for skirmishing, some Grenadiers and some Engineers to check the ground ... For quick message transports a hussar is able to inform the headquarter ... Landscape was reused from bricklink and jmt2021 www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/design.page?idModel=261708 Woody64

New 15x collections for Ancient Napoleonic WW1 These items have variants with a different set of items. Also I follow requests to create a new 15x variant in a different setting .., (see the variants d3, d4, d5 .... to check what's already availble )

This entry is only for historical reasons, to show how the above described path has developed Didn't read that for a very long time and even can't remember these very first attempts and fails but at the end now I'm able to upload a software generated pack of a subset of the below shown items in a 15x pack to Shapeways and you will be able to order that after some minutes of processing and configuring the shop parameters for buying (name, section, materials, pricing). Not to mention is the design quality which has developed from some basic shapes to a full 3d blender design bench. Woody64

Still I'm missing apropriate shakos for my armies. Therefore I did some attempts which I would like to share, since doing that allone would not be successfull. LDraw parts: British-Shako: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/woody64/...o/2545-brit.dat French-Shako: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/woody64/...2545-french.dat Steps to Do: - Import to 3d CAD Program -- for the british shako already successfull done: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/woody64/...rit-blender.png http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/woody64/...o/2545-brit.stl - Control Dimensions (damned ldu/mm, I haven't taken a look so far) - Find Molder (http://www.protomold.com/ ?) - Get Proposal - Let the Molder create the Tool - Prototypes - Produce 1000 shakos :-) seems to be very easy Andreas

Recently I have added some more middle aged or ancient items: Normannic Pig Face Helmet Eisenhut Gaul helmet Hopelite and some collections: Woody64

Recently I also made some vignettes belonging to the middle age or the Ancient era: Woody64

Starting with the American Revolution era: Hessen Grenadiers at their march to Yorktown American Light Infantry capturing a British Dragoon British Grenadiers storming Bunker Hill and Americans escorting the Dragoon more details you can find on my flickr account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/34336019@N07/ All vignettes were using customized helmets designed by me (remaining in pure white for demonstration purpose) Woody64 (next post will cover Napoleonics)

Yes I do, but I'm always owning the 3d design. If a proposal is interesting I do it and offer it on Shapeways to the public, Here are some of the newest creations: - Russian Cuirassier - Spanish Grenadier - Sheep - Russian Shako 1805 - Mix of more the 20 Napoleonic Shakos - Forage Cap (19th Cent) - Bombay Infantry - Aurochs - Italian Bustina - 30 years war set - Ancient Set: Spartan, Roman, Thrakian

Concept work for custom animals: You can view some of them in 3d mode: https://www.shapeways.com/product/EJMMT5JLA/aurochs https://www.shapeways.com/product/E6EJ3FCEY/4-x-sheep https://www.shapeways.com/product/BFM53U226/2-x-foal Test print: Woody64

Very nice scene and interesting usage of the Roman helmet. Understand your interest for the Cuirassier helemets especially for the Napoleonic times. Below you can find my version of one of these helmets:

today a vignette showing items one century later(1914-1918) German Uhlans WW1 In 1914, lances were still being carried by regiments in the British, Indian, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Ottoman, Belgian, Argentinian, and Russian armies, amongst others. Almost all German cavalry (hussars, dragoons and cuirassiers as well as uhlans) retained a steel lance as their primary weapon. http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancer https://www.flickr.com/photos/34336019@N07/49738352757/in/dateposted-public/

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New Item: Prussian Shakos https://www.shapeways.com/product/YPTXCM8SQ/7-x-prussian-napolenic-shakos

Hungarian Insurrection In the Kingdom of Hungary, the insurrection (nemesi felkelés) was the term used to describe the aristocratic contingent to protect the borders and the king. Theoretically it was abolished in the revolution of 1848/49. However, the last insurrection took place in 1741 to defend the lands of Queen Maria Theresa against the invasion of Frederick II of Prussia. The term was still used during the coalition wars. Thus, a considerable number of Insurrection troops were involved in the Battle of Raab in 1809. https://www.flickr.com/photos/34336019@N07/49715416206/in/dateposted-public/ Lancers of the Guard In 1807 Napoleon authorized the raising of a guard regiment of Polish light horse. His main object in so doing was probably political, a first token of his promise to establish an independent Polish state. Whatever his motives,he obtained the services of some of the finest soldiers who ever served under him. Qualifications for enlistment were high. Applicants must be landowners or the sons of landowners. Some financial backing was certainly necessary, as those accepted had to provide their own uniforms, saddlery and horses. The men came mainly from Murat's Polish 'Honor Guard' and volunteers. Majority of them were nobles and were better educated than rank and file of the French Guard who - in big part - could only read and write. This situation however was only in the beginning, later on their ranks were filled up with veterans selected from every Polish cavalry regiment. https://www.flickr.com/photos/34336019@N07/49157341557/in/dateposted-public/ Remarkable and very new in this picture is the new custom saddle ...

New Knight Helmet and Knights in a Buhurt Turkish Janitsar: Unprinted yet, but design is available: Spanish bearskin is available in printed from and will be assembled soon ...

I have printed some of my torsos at Steindrucker. Also it's possible to buy a Laser printer and use white Ghost printing toner Woody64

I'm owning a lot of customs there and you can go with: - smooth fine detail plastic - white/black premium versatile plastic - black/grey PA12 - white processed versatile plastic all work with headgear and mostly also for weapons. For smaller details like weapons maybe "smooth fine detail" is the best choice. The 3d printing process still show different results in surface (results are best in the list above in the sequence given) and also in some results caused by smoothing. Nevertheless the results so far were reproducable (some 1000 prints) Woody64

After York has crossed the Elbe by Wartenburg Blücher is advancing against Leipzig. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlacht_bei_Wartenburg You see Prussian Infantry, Landwehr and Jäger supported by Russians attached to the Schlesian Army (Light Infantry and Militia) Custom items not colored yet ....