Snoopy and the Red Baron

Ben, I love it!!

Love it, It just doesn't get any better than that.

Great job !

I love the 3D printable version. Before you came up with this, I bought a modified version from @Mike Summerville who got them at the dollar store?

Again, great idea- I love the 3D printable version and hats off on that excellent hand painted version.

I had been looking around for one but couldn't find one.  Kind of a 3D novice. but like to play around!

Ben

@NavyBen posted:

I had been looking around for one but couldn't find one.  Kind of a 3D novice. but like to play around!

Ben

It was a good idea- don't let my post take anything away- you hand painted yours and it's impressive.

And, I like the idea that others can source their own 3D printed version- this way more folks can have one on their layout.

Just absolutely to cool!

thanks For the feedback.  I like being a "Toy Train" Guy vs a Model Railroader!!

Thanks Vernon for the mention!

I found the Snoopy Dog House figure (with smoke trail) in the board game "Flying Ace" that Ollies carried for a while.  You can still find the game on ebay. 

Painted the dog house brown, moved the attachment of the smoke trail to inside the dog house and then used epoxy to attach it to a spare pylon rod.

Game also comes with a triplane but the Lionel triplane is much better!

S/F Mike

That's very cool. Nice work!

@NavyBen posted:

I recently purchased a Lionel Red Baron Pylon.  Being a Fan of Great Pumpkin, I wanted to make it more "Fun". So I found a file to 3D print Snoopy as a WW1 Flying Ace and made it about the right size to look cool, painted it and put it on the Pylon.  Hope you enjoy the video!

Great job NavyBen!

I know ZERO about 3D printing but will need to catch up with the times as it seems to be the only way to get things that one wants for the layout that the manufacturers don't make or no longer make.

"After the turn of the century, came a roaring thunder men have never heard" Great job! Go NAVY!

Absolute Genius! Love it.
Whole family loved it.

Thanks for sharing this with us!

As a lifelong fan of this "real dog fight", this stroke of genius is truly amazing!

Ben - outstanding! As a fan of all things Snoopy, I will now to create for myself.

Can you share where you found the 3D file?

@NavyBen, brilliant idea, great execution.  I love the bullet holes!

That's just too cool! You even got all the colors right on your model. Still love the Peanuts gang after all these years. Mr. Schultz would love it, too. Thanks for posting.

Tom

Ben, That is assume.

Just saw the posts. Thanks everyone.  I will share the file tomorrow.

Very cool, love it!

I got the file from Thingiverse.  The file made a rather big figure, but I reduced it to 37%, kind of eyeballing the size to be big enough.  I did add a washer to the bottom, if the plane and the dog house are not the same weight, the gears in the tower make noise when running.

Here is the file... https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2971170   I used a Prusa i3 MK3S. with WHite PLA.  I am not a real good expert with a printer.  I inherited it as a gift from my Electrical Engineer son, when he moved to California to Build Satellites for ASTRANIS. (An Aside, When he was in college, he worked as a service tech for MTH.  He understood the electronics pretty well.)

Also would like to share the following. A friend (Perry- Owner of the Toy Exchange in Mt. Airy, MD) had a model kit of a rocket (Old 50s style flash gordon thing). He asked me to build it so he could put it on his layout.  So I got carried away and scratch built a Tower and put LED lights and all.  Enjoy the pictures. The red tower is an Antenna file from thingiverse I enlarged.  Most of the rest is Styrene cut and painted and decals applied.

It is a little out of scale (the vehicles are N scale, but still looks cool on his layout.

Also, On the 3D printing of the snoopy I added support (Scarf and things needed it) be careful when removing.  The scarf is a little thin....

Like the others, that is too cool.  But a question, as the planes weigh an ounce at best and I guess Snoopy weights a lot more, how did you reduce his weight enough that it did not put too much stress on the motor and gears of the tower?

@PeterA posted:

Like the others, that is too cool.  But a question, as the planes weigh an ounce at best and I guess Snoopy weights a lot more, how did you reduce his weight enough that it did not put too much stress on the motor and gears of the tower?

That's the beauty of 3D printing- at the slicer- the software that takes the 3D model and creates the toolpath gcode (FDM) or layer images (SLA) can determine things like wall thickness, infiill density, number of shells, and other details.

Again- concept moment:

The CAD model of the design is the SHAPE of the object. Think wireframe drawing of the object.

The 3d printing/slicing software takes the shape, but rather than just making that a solid object- can do things like make an outer wall of a known thickness, even a number of inner parallel walls, and everything from no infill to 100% infill. It's called a slicer because think of taking a ham and putting that on a meat slicer. It examines the 3D shape on a layer by layer basis and how to build that shape for that layer.

Actually, The size I made snoopy, he came out to only .8 oz.  So I added a large disc washer.  I think you can see it in the video. I did paint it black after the demo so it doesn't show.

Vernon - If I was a little more handy, I probably could have done some more infill for adding weight.    Being from a healthcare background, the slicer reminds me of what an MRI or Cat Scan Looks like.....  They call those slices as well!

I just wanted to also Point out, that Lionel Did catalog a Snoopy Red barron Pylon in 2012, that I don't think they ever Made?

I just wanted to point out something funny as well, the misspelling on the the box as PLYON and not PYLON!