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  1. My wife had the vaccine a few weeks ago because of the place where she works and she is very fine thank you. I hope to get mine between summer and September, if Canada gets the quantities they paid for in due time. We'll see. And I really hope they won't keep going with that new attempt at only giving a single shot instead of 2 shots.... It's a vaccine that was bought and then approved by Health Canada because it takes 2 shots to reach 99% coverage (I heard 95%, and less, but the manufacturer's advertising line was 99% with 2 shots). So I sure hope they will stick to their original promesse b
  2. Hi Paul, Please send me an email and some more details as I'm not sure which version exactly we are talking about as I had made 3 versions of it and we'll figure out which parts you don't have. I still have plenty of the water slide decals. If anyone wants some please email me and I will find a price for them plus shipping to your area. I do have some parts in stock but we will have to figure out which has ones are the ones of the version you don't have. Anything else I don't have in stock I would have to make new castings. Stephane Stratosphere Models Email
  3. Hi folks, Just to let you know and so you won't get surprised : On February 28th, Picturetrail.com will close down. So my Stratosphere Models website/picture albums will be gone. I have no control over this, so I will have to find a new place where to show my model kit products. If you are interested by anything, please as usual use my email. I may not respond right away, due to Covid, + winter there are not a lot of safe places where I can go for internet, I'm doing my best to keep us safe and avoid public places, but I check my emails and answer them all. Since I'm highly unli
  4. Hi, giving examples of what I experienced personally with Internet providers would take too long and fill too much space here. An update though, and from my experience, it is very bad, all the big name companies play all kinds of overcharging games and tricks, that's the reason they have been taken to court several times by le Bureau de la Concurrence; and they lost and got charged millions of $ in fines if not billions. But it seems they never learn and keep trying to steal and defraud their customers because they frequently get sued by that federal court. I also learned last night the h
  5. Hi folks, Just to let you know and so you won't get surprised : On February 28th, Picturetrail.com will close down (unfortunately). So my Stratosphere Models website/picture albums will be gone. I have no control over that. So I will have to find another place where to show my model kit products. If you are interested by anything, please as usual use my email. I may not respond right away, due to Covid, + winter there are not a lot of safe places where I can go for internet, I'm doing my best to keep us safe and avoid public places, but I check my emails and answer them all. Sin
  6. "Tooling for a 1/48th scale kit cost just "a little bit more" versus a tooling for a 1/72nd scale injected plastic kit". I would say I disagree with that statement. The mold cavity for a 1/72nd scale injected plastic kit aircraft with say a dimension of 15 x 15 cm will have a superficy of 225 square cm (I'm using a very simple square shape just for the sake of the example), while the same model made at 1/48th scale will have a superficy of 22.5 x 22.5 cm = 506.25 square cm. That's double the superficy of mold cavity for the 1/48th scale kit. Research and design for a 1/48th scal
  7. SPECIAL AFTER BOXING DAY Stratosphere Models Specials : Lockheed/CIA D-21 Mach 4 spy drone (Only 1/48 D-21 resin kit on the market, and the only accurate D-21 kit). 53.98$ US (Regular price : 85.00$) Mc Donnell/USAF FDL-7 C/D, manned spaceplane, 1/100 (the true shape of the legacy USAF FDL-7 C/D developed at Wright Patterson (AFFDL USAF labs) and the only existing kit of the legacy shape). About 25 cm long. 39.98.00$ US (Regular price 70.00$) Mc Donnell/USAF FDL-7 Model 176, manned spaceplane (crew ferry vehicle for the USAF MOL reconnaissance
  8. Hi, The X-31 model on my website did have the landing gear, but the photos angle hide it (on at least one photo you can see one of the wheels on which the model is standing, which were attached to the gear): http://www.picturetrail.com/stratospheremodels But I no longer have cast metal landing gears at this point, I'm still finalizing a 3D CAD version of them which was to be 3D printed and cast in metal but the price hikes at SW for cast metals plus I believe a change of their policy about sprued parts or other requirements related to casting which I haven't
  9. Hi Bruce, I cannot recommend a service provider specifically and I understand what you mean, SW is the only one (now that Click2Detail is gone) that offer MJM materials from 3DSystems printed at 16 microns plus have stores, but there are many other (usually prototyping) shops that have the same 3DS machine and might print at 16 microns. There is an alternative however, any UV resin desktop 3D printer that can do 16 to 5 microns resolution in the Z axis and about 50 to 20 something microns in the X,Y axis should be able to do the job just fine for small details. If you
  10. Hi Mstor, Thank you very much for kindly providing photos of your KA nozzle parts. Sorry couldn't check the thread earlier. Couple more point: it's ironic that during the still unresolved crystallization crisis, I proposed to SW to use another of the Visijet plastics from 3DSystems instead of the current one they use. A suggestion based on the information I got from another local 3D printing service which was using the same machine as well as several of the different plastics for it, and they told me one of the other 3DS plastics for the 3500HD Max is more stable than
  11. Don't worry Mstor, I don't want to get your KA parts 😅, I was just curious about the look of the surface of his parts before painting, that's all. Back to topic, if you used FUD printed at about 28 microns resolution, I've used FED which is printed at 16 microns and can give a finer surface. There was a comparison between a small Form1 SLA desktop printer and SW's FED plastic printed with 3DSystems machines a few years ago and the parts were very close, though the parts from the 3DSystems printer were still a bit better. But the crystal blooms, if you are affected, can ruin all th
  12. Hi Mstor, I had a look at his creations and there are indeed very detailed parts on his website. It would be interesting to see the parts firsthand before they are painted to see what type of resin he's using. There is a limited number of printers that can do these type of details and surface while remaining competitive. There are more 3D printers that can do better details and higher resolution than this but they are very expensive (material cost and maintenance, usually industrial SLA laser printers) or small desktop machines that print only very small objects rather slowly
  13. I shouldn't have bothered spending so much time trying to push Shapeways to listen and fix their FED/FUD crystallization problem & so on. When i went back to have a look after a few months I found what I already knew was likely to happen : the new CEO announced another big price increase with new complicated algorithm & redesign of the website which generated widespread anger & ironic comments from scale modelers and shop owners. SW's boat is visible sinking : https://www.shapeways.com/forum/t/pricing-changes.97888/ https://www.shapeways.com/forum/t/pricing-
  14. Hi Holmes, Al my sympathies about the loss of your friend. Maybe we crossed path at some point a long time ago when I was at Bombardier too, but it's a big company so I don't know. Yes, 60 that's way too young. My sympathies to his family from another Montrealer. Stephane.
  15. Sorry for the long post. It's not really my story, back in 2016 people at a scale model ships forum complained about their FED/FUD parts (made with multi jet printers from 3DSystems like the 3500HD Max at SW) as they were experiencing blooms of crystals that progressively cover the surface and details of those parts. Someone brought the problem to the attention of SW on their forum and ever since pretty much nothing was done to fix this as neither SW nor 3DS have fixed the material. The parts won't actually turn to dust but crystals do grow on a percentage of them and will grow even through pa
  16. I've had that same experience with several recent East European models from different brands. So Tamiya and Hasegawa are definitely not the only ones who can design kits with good fit. Though I don't have too many Tamiya's or Hasegawa's in my stash, but I do have some Finemolds , and those are just as good as these other 2 Japanese companies. Stephane
  17. Take note that Shapeways Frosted Ultra Detail plastic (FUD) & Frosted Extreme Detail plastic (FED) have been renamed since the 17th of May as : Fine Detail Plastic. Maybe an attempt to make the info about the FED & FUD crystallization crisis go into a dead end on search engines, as some people on their forum already suspect (kind of like when Lululemon changed its name to Lole). Also take note that I wrote most of the info in my previous post a few months ago (sorry, been delayed by too many things to post it earlier) and that since I wrote that they recently made yet anothe
  18. I've been at Shapeways for about 2 years, so I had the opportunity to experience a lot of things. They went from being at the top of my list to bottom of the heap in terms of what I've experienced since I started using their services. The list of problems is long: poor and inefficient customer service, serious quality issue for FED & FUD plastics, questionable practices concerning the sales earnings of store owners (they systematically freeze earnings that are below 30$ for days, weeks or months rather than wire them to us), they very frequently cancel sales: up to 50% of my sales have bee
  19. So I get it that the new A version of the Tamiya F-14 is already out ?? Did I miss on this one ? :o Stéphane, Stratosphere Models Website : http://www.picturetrail.com/stratospheremodels
  20. Hi Dave, Thank you, my guess is that paint fumes and paint solvents are most likely nastier than any of the resins I would want to filter for (particularly petroleum based paints). Given that I don't use any aliphatic resins (so that removes the nasty stuff) nor anything that's higher up in the health safety scale (I mostly use the mild stuff), I think I would be fine with a homemade unit (given that my budget is zero to get a commercial unit). In fact the UK made filtration systems are quite simple boxes but in my opinion overpriced for what they are (just square metal boxes with
  21. Hi Dave, Thank you for your very detailed and enlightening answer ! In fact I don't mind the environmental engineering 101 course, the more info the better. I was probably thinking about a system that can do everything / both paint and remove fumes from resin manufacturing (no matter what the method, and some of those methods cannot be contained in a pressure pot). I don't do much paint anymore, quite rare, but from time to time I will need to prime or even fully paint models for the purpose of showing pictures online. Filtering resin fumes (of varied types) would be
  22. Such as brands, cost, models, what system are you personally using ? Please share some photos of your system and scale modeling workshop :) I am looking to set up something that throws all the fumes outside and filter them at the same time, HEPA filters, activated charcoal filter, in whatever combination and set up work best and is safe (need fans that are explosion proof would be my guess ?). I will also obviously need a flexible hose, maybe two (any suggestions for sources, types of hoses ?). I will most likely end up painting the outside of the hoses in a way to make them more e
  23. They forgot to censor the missile close-up images in some of their takes :) ! Stéphane Stratosphere Models Website : http://www.picturetrail.com/stratospheremodels Email : stratospheremodels@yahoo.fr
  24. Hi, A few suggestions : In the Help section I only see Solidscape & Envisiontech written a number of times and there are no prices anywhere for the different services when I click on any of the options. There is no Meiko machines indicated either nor any of the other technologies you listed on the front page. It looks to me like this is a website that is still under construction although it doesn't say so. So there is no way to make a comparison with the prices of Rinkak, iMaterialise, Shapeways, etc, which is too bad. So I'll pass. Al
  25. I am exceptionnaly offering for sale a 3rd Stratosphere Models pattern. This one is for my hypersonic Lockheed FDL-6 SOMV classified lifting body, 1/48th scale. It is my largest version of that model at over 20 cm long. The model was produced in fiberglass, so the tooling molds are also fiberglass. This will allow you to make nice, long lasting, resistant desk models. You will have to add a silicone mold for the fin as the fins I made for those were individually made out of styrene. Take note that it is actually the molds I am selling (the pattern was made of a somewhat
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