Made a new 5 gallon Gatorade-look-alike cooler for the modern US vehicles in 1/35. Wasn’t too happy with my previous design. I feel like it’s a must have for an Abrams. Gotta quench some GI thirst. 
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Very nicely done. Love the spigot and logo. Getting thirsty…
I know little or nothing about 3D printing but I wonder if antennae top caps could be printed in 1/35?
Very few a/m antennas come with the top cap (I found one type for my M577) People on here have made them from dried-out White Glue, as I tried to yesterday, but opinions vary on how well this works. If an enterprising Printer could make these, needing a small indent (or better a hole) in the underside I would buy about 100 of them to retrofit my fleet and more for future builds.
I feel sure others would too.
Is this practical and if so is there any interest in taking it on ??
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Hi Dennis,
That’s super easy to do. Would take 5-10 mins to CAD them. Do you have its dimensions in metric by chance?
Kind regards,
James
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Tiny. They are only about as long as a thumb.
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I measured a Leopard Workshop ball and it’s 1.83mm tall and 1mm wide at its widest point. Gino’s pic shows the profile better than my pic.
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OK, that’s helpful. Let me cook up something in an hour or two, and I’ll put up some CAD screenshots later.
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Love it. Looks like the inward curve starts earlir/higher than Ginos pic, but you probably wouldn’t see it in 1/35. Also, a small recess rather than a tube; would this allow for a slightly larger diameter “hole”, like 0.65mm“?
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Not sure if that’s going to make a difference because the surrounding wall is at the thinnest and it’s pushing my 3D printer’s limit - anything below 0.1mm wall is risky for print fail, and right now, it’s at 0.09mm thick…
Also, I expanded the diameter by 0.15 mm more to resemble what Gino showed above.
So it’s like 1.83mm long and 1.2mm wide at its widest part.
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Understood. It looks great. I’ll be a customer for sure.
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Cool. PM me for more discussion. I’d think you could use these also, and we can discuss consolidating all the prints into one shipment.
For use for something like below:
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Will pm tomorrow.
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60 antenna caps and 15 bridge plates on order. Great job James.
This is what it’s all about! Love to see Petition2God’s great work, and custom whipping up a request, and the request result acted on. Great stuff!
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Made a few changes to my 1/35 37mm M6 gun CAD to fit Tamiya M3 Stuart (#35360), AFV Club M5 Stuart kits, and Tamiya M8 Greyhound (#35228). I suppose you could use either version to replace the Academy M3A1 parts with some modification also.
To fit Tamiya M3 Stuart #35360:
To fit AFV Club M5 kits (#35105, 35161, etc.) and Tamiya M8 Greyhound (35228) with some modification necessary:
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You’ve even got that hint of a flare at the muzzle. Excellent. Great to have the reference photos, too.
I’m starting a USS Constitution and want to make my own 3D guns (I’m going to light them if I can make that work). I don’t know how I’ll go with the conical barrels and reinforcing rings, but there’s always version 10,001!
Let’s see if I can make more than $2 for selling the STLs…
Ha! I’m sure you can. With no advertising or plan, you’re already probably making tens of dollars!
Seriously, make the files, and they will come…
See, a potential customer already! Gentleman looking for an ammo thing: