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The Ultimate 700 Scale HIJMS Yamato
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Posted: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 09:36 AM UTC
I found this while looking at various Websites. If you have a spare US $500-00 it could be yours........Cheers Mark





http://www.modelfactoryhiro.com/new/en/archives/6634#more-6634
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Posted: Friday, October 19, 2012 - 09:05 PM UTC
Stunning Model, great use of materials, how did they get the clear resin aircraft out of the molds?

Would be a facinating build, if you have the time money & eyesight.

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Posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 07:43 AM UTC

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Stunning Model, great use of materials, how did they get the clear resin aircraft out of the molds?


Molds? We don' need no steenking molds! From the listing:


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The bridge, chimney, observation aircrafts will be made in one-piece by using photopolymer, they presenting the ultimate level of quality and details. The observation aircraft will be translucent.


They're able to produce them -- admittedly, at a rather slow pace, compared to injection molding -- in one piece by using a 3D printing process using photo-reactive liquid polymer; the liquid-polymer fabrication allows the creation of much finer details than the lower-cost extrusion 3D printers that you can get now for less than $2,000.
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