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Thursday, January 2, 2025

Hungarian Tanks and Crew

M40 Turan I Hungarian WWII tank.
It was 3D printed by Railroad Connections.  I did not like their stuff enough to buy more than a few of their vehicles.  Lots of little excess strings that are hard to remove and the striations are very bad.
This is a Filament Fighters 3d printed tank sold by Fidelis Models.  The same Turan tank as above but about three years newer.  The striations are much smaller and the detail is much better, and no excess plastic.
A much improved model.
I was happy to get these new Hungarian tanks since Orion just released their 1/72nd scale Hungarian Tank Crews set.
Tanks are HO 1/87 scale like the old Roco Minitanks.  Figures are 1/72nd scale, I have played mixing these two scale for about 60 years, so far.
Troops resting.
Chatting and planning.
Having a cup of coffee.
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3 comments:

Roger said...

When printing with FDM or 'filament-printers' the printer it self is of course an issue to good prints. But settings, time and after-work is often overlooked when it comes to make the best out of such printings. I usually try several different attempts until I get a satisfactory result. Right now I've been printing some simple H0 scale figures with almost no striations.

January 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Mike Bunkermeister Creek said...

Roger, that's awesome. I have no doubt that someday everyone will own a 3d printer and print many things at home.

January 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Parzival of TMP said...

That first tank looks like the side armor is quilted. Is that the way it’s suppose to look, or is that a result of the 3d printer striations?

January 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM

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