I suppose 3D printing all this crap is a good thing… It also could be an exercise in futility, a folly. Time will tell. With the printing of the place settings I think I'm reaching the lower limit in resolution that can be had from an LCD printer.
Had 2.5 hrs in the shop today, but don't have too much to show for it. I spent a lot of time preparing the new crown and baseboard moldings for paint, painting the kitchen and getting a reasonably successful print of the dining room stuff.
To make it a bit better I went back to the drawing board and redesigned the wine glass, coffee cut and flatware. I also scaled it a tad bigger. The scale factor for 1:48 is 0.021. I used 0.024. As it was, even with my changes, the flatware failed to really materialize, the wine glass had a 70% failure rate which I corrected a bit by gluing them back on with Bondic. The coffee cups were more successful with some actually forming the finger loop. I made the insides of the cup and glass solids. I also attempted to raise the silverware off the surface and put support structure underneath, but it was just too small to form separate resin layers. I printed at 30 microns. You can just catch the shadow of the silverware. I think I'm finding the downward limit of detals that can be successfully reproduced by a LCD resin printer. The printer will print it, but you can't do anything with it since just dropping it in the ultrasonic cleaner breaks off the details.
Here's the placemats on the table.
By upsacleing, the placemats took up more table space so I sanded the placemat down a bit, and of course, knocked off a couple more wine glasses in the process. The above image shows these sanded placemats.
I painted the placemats in prep for painting the rest. I also painted (poorly) the kitchen unit. It was the end of the day and I was rushing. When I'm rushing I usually make a mess of things. You'll also notince four table lamps. I did put a piece of 0.032" brass rod to re-attch the shade to the base. That will give me lamps for each of the four night tables in the bedrooms.
I got more work done on the next room and with the newly printed molding got back to adding crown and baseboard.
I also finished painting the beds. So there's that. Tomorrow won't be full session day either. I'm now tasked with picking up grandson #2 at high school on Fridays. I'm making a stop at the hobby shop to drop off more decals I made for the plastics department manager.
