A 3-D printed 20mm scale Dassault Mirage III, painted in South African Air Force colors |
The problem with that is where to get them from in 20mm or 1/72 scale (which is close)? My first choice would have been die cast metal ones. That is, until I saw the prices not only for the planes but also the shipping ($10 on Amazon). Even though I won't need many for my battlefield, paying $30 a crack was too much in my book. Kits were available, and cheaper, yes. However, my days of assembling 50-piece model kits where you glue antennas and miscellaneous tiny fins on a model are long since past. So, what about 3-D printed ones?
This Mirage III will appear in playtests of my close-air support mechanisms for my Wars of Insurgency rules |
Top down view of the model - you can see some of the 3-D printer pattern on the wings that I tried to sand off |
color first, then the green second. I then highlighted each color in a lighter and more watered down version of each color. Details were hand-painted on -- no decals (as you can probably tell...ha, ha!). I particular like how the canopy came out. Very understated. I simply put three different colors of blue on the upper portions of the canopy, on top of the solid black color.
I am pretty happy with how this 3-D printed model turned out, and it was MUCH cheaper than either the die cast or kids. Next up, the Buccaneer!
Looks great ,he should offer his service to gamers,,,
ReplyDeleteVery nice, look forward to seeing it in a game.
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