Recent content by ajmadison

I almost have a visceral reaction when I hear about someone using baking soda as a filler/accelerant for super glue. Baking soda reacts to high humidity. If you and your projects will forever be in Nevada (wink) then this is probably not a problem. The issue is that superglue looks solid, but is...

For those of you who have a Lowe's nearby, I found the Krylon Chalky and Triple Glaze together for USD $12 and change including taxes (forget which was more expensive). Home Depot retails Rustoleum products, which I found a Chalk finish paint, but nothing on the shelf (my goal is to find these...

Frankly, Michaels is not known for its discounting on main stream supplies. So I get the fake flowers *wink* and the Liquitex gloss medium and go elsewhere for everything else.

Might want to look at thingiverse.com and myminifactory.com. And I mean beyond helmets and cos-play weapon replicas. ALBEIT, thingiverse does not vet its uploads, and some of its things are unprintable as is, some other 'things' look okay on the screen, but are very crude. myminifactory does vet...

Looks awesome. Look forward to seeing what it looks like in Simplify3D and potentially on my printer bed. Been looking/waiting for a good Halo Assault Rifle to print. There's a couple of toys on Thingiverse, but nothing that made me think were worth even a test print.

I did try it. (yup its expensive. but decided I'm either all in or not for this hobby, and went all in.) My first issue is that NetFabb pro, *unlike* the free, only runs on Windoze. Eek. I don't have a Windoze machine (yeah, its from the fruit company). So I got the trial version of Parallels. I...

My frustration with MM isn't that it crashes, but that operations I believe should be trivial, have routinely ended in a blood red mesh. Which is MM's way of saying that the operation failed. For example, I've been trying to take a STL file object (a subsection of a Halo weapon) and it into two...

Any printer under $500 would either be a kit, which will require assembly (obviously) and set-up/configuration. Some of printers can be painful to get "leveled out" and the extruder 'zero'd in' in their setup. There's a picture making the rounds, showing a magnified section of a 3d printer...

Eek. This is mostly true, with the exception of their latest printers, the Makerbot Replicator+ & Replicator 5th Gen. To their credit, Makerbot tried to make the "Apple" equivalent of a 3D printer, in essence, plug & play. But the "Smart Extruder", their combined extruder & z-height/bed leveling...

Thanks Peterthethinker, I've recently become aware of the wider set of tools that are available through these free/open CAD programs. For example. Meshmixer repair either does bizarre things to the STL files (thingiverse, maybe that's my first clue) or it crashes. I've been exploring...

For just cutting parts, I use Netfabb as well. Though here's a trick for a one-off print. I place the mesh in the slicer program, then move the 'bottom' of the object, relative to the build plate, below the build plate. The slicer program just generates g-code for only what's above the build...

Hi, jumping in here with a picture of a print run. Yeah, not exactly Halo related, but its all I have on hand. The machine itself is an M2 V4 Version D/24 volt. When I have a chance, I'll post in progress pictures of the Halo Carbine I'm printing out. Ran into a bit of snag on that project. I...

Name: Andrew Madison Profession: Software Developer Age: 56 Favorite Hobby: Modeling Favorite part of halo: Master Chief Favorite Halo: Halo 2 Favorite Video Game: Halo 2 Other Interests: Star Trek Not exactly an impulse buyer of any halo merchandise, but its the rare figure that I'll pass up