Well… I finally got the park benches printed, built, painted and placed in the Heritage Park. I printed them 6 up, two failed, one got destroyed when de-supporting so I ended up with the three that I needed. I post-cured before removing the supports to strengthen the slats. I used the Dremel flexi-shaft with a needle-shaped diamond-coated burr to cut off the supports. I then used the mini-sander to remove the support nubs. Didn't have to be too careful since the bottoms and backs will not be seen be very well.
I glued the ends on with thin CA. Two benches have the later-printed full-thickness end pieces. The other has the thinner pieces that were printed first in an aborted print. Here are the three after gluing.
I hand-painted the slats with Tamiya wood tan.
Today I followed up with Tamiya Park Green, which is a gloss bright green that looks a lot like Burlington Northern Green.
Pretty respectable, if I do say so myself. And here they are in the park where they belong.
Now I need people. A park without people is just plain sad. I'm really trying to find STL files of figures that I can print. With the benches in place, Heritage Park is actually fully complete. I think that Park Green is a new Tamiya color. I've been wanting a Tamiya bright green, but never could find one.
I had to adjust the color on the some of the driver's compartment stuff in the Bradley.
Meng Models has some really nicely made decals.
