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Mr. Ambrose's version of the Lanchester type:
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A Japanese student's work: Well done, Nobuyuki Umetani! (found
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www.design.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/lectures/creative_design_lab/2004/t40172.html)
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The
interesting thing on this work is that a working model was generated by a "rapid prototyping" process, i.e.built fully automatically by a laser machine from liquid resin. |
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Times do change! Rapid Prototyping is becoming main-stream, and can be tackled by enterprising hobbyists already.
Instead of blueprints STL files are published, and if You like a design just "print it" in some solid material.
In October 2011 I was offered a Chariot design, available as "open source" for pick-up at a site
called Thingiverse.
Not having such a machine (yet?) I was lucky enough to talk the designer into printing me a set in Canada for little money.
Tires from the Czech Republic and some scrap metal from my German shop made this model a highlight of my collection.
Well done, Brad!
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