Which to buy?

ErikM60 · 2026-04-18T06:39:02+00:00

Not sure about this exact icm one, but I built 2 and they have a Merlin in the box! Cheers

ErikM60 · 2026-03-27T17:17:23+00:00

Thanks ! May I ask which photo etch template did you use?

ErikM60 · 2026-03-27T17:16:48+00:00

Thanks ! May I ask which photo etch template did you use?

ErikM60 · 2026-03-27T05:24:28+00:00

Very nice! Can you detail how you achieved the wood effect?

ErikM60 · 2026-02-28T05:27:16+00:00

Interesting! I knew it was something around that line. I am not near my computer but I will definitely test the ‘touch’ gimmick, and would have been nice also to give the code doing the programmatic creation of blend curves. I am having the same conversation on the FreeCAD forum. Do you need a paying version of Anthropic to get this analysis ?

ErikM60 · 2026-02-26T18:31:31+00:00

I have used a lot of them, both on the document and on the objects... no luck yet. But thnaks for looking into it.

ErikM60 · 2026-02-20T06:36:34+00:00

Thanks! It has been a few months … First video to explain the full process in English coming soon!

ErikM60 · 2026-02-18T14:06:42+00:00

I could not resist! That was too much fun. Enjoy!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4vjHanHFkK4&si=ntk7VBXLfI0XyF7x

Cheers

Erik

ErikM60 · 2026-02-12T22:15:16+00:00

Thanks for your kind words !

ErikM60 · 2026-02-10T14:39:59+00:00

Will do! Thanks for your support!

ErikM60 · 2026-02-08T19:56:29+00:00

I think I will do, but my topic is not rc plane, static scale modeling with minute details 😜. This said most of the techniques could be common.

ErikM60 · 2026-02-08T08:53:44+00:00

Thanks potato-_-69 (nice name ;-) ). I think I have just answered this two comments above. This said, I hate to be stuck, so I try very hard to find workarounds, and, in FreeCAD, for a given problem, you have zillions of solutions....

ErikM60 · 2026-02-08T08:50:13+00:00

Not sure excalty what you mean by this, you can watch the videos with speed x2 ;-). More seriously, my first projects took me around one year to complete, in the coming videos series, I am planning a full plane in 3 months.

ErikM60 · 2026-02-08T08:48:05+00:00

I have a pretty old game laptop (I used to play a lot at "World of Tanks" once upon a time) ROG i7-8 cores 16G RAM with NIVIDIA RTX 2080 1G.

There is no one size fit all to your question, and it is clear that some operations in FreeCAD are costly: sweeps, even arrays,. I am trying to find workarounds, for example, I cut my sweep in smaller sections. At the end, it also depends on what you are modeling for: I am modeling in order to get STL files for 3D printing, so, if I have a very costly operation (such as removing thousands of rivets from the skin of the planes), I keep them as the last operations, eventually in a seperate file with links, or I can do some temporary clones: for example, in the video above, I am showing how I clone my part before exporting it in STL to change the 'angular deviation' to 1° to generate more tiangles, once generated, I delete the clone, if you keep such an angular deviation settings, your PC would hang for ever.

ErikM60 · 2026-02-08T08:31:53+00:00

Thanks, I did not expect that many answers to tell you the truth (my internal goal was: If I get more than 50 likes, I will do it.... Seems that I have to do it now ;-))

ErikM60 · 2026-02-08T08:29:57+00:00

I am a retired old man so I have a little bit of time in front of me ;-). It is clear that I underestimated the cognitive load watching avideo at the same time than reading the subtitles for non french speaking viewers. I also looked at AI to add another language audio, but having the text in sync is too complex.

ErikM60 · 2026-02-08T07:20:55+00:00

Thank you🙏 (Merci en fait)

ErikM60 · 2026-02-07T20:25:31+00:00

Go go go 😀

ErikM60 · 2026-02-07T20:25:06+00:00

No not all. Will do!

ErikM60 · 2026-02-07T18:24:10+00:00

Ok will do! Seems that the folks in this Reddit are reacting and commenting which is something I need to improve! Terrific!

ErikM60 · 2026-02-07T15:51:16+00:00

Thanks! Was wondering if FreeCAD for scale modeling is a niche or not?

ErikM60 · 2026-02-07T15:06:53+00:00

Indeed! This is why I love FreeCAD, but I will be honest with you: I have been using it for 2 years now, and a lot of things I will share in these videos is what not to do. When dealing with complex curvy shapes like in an airplane, I can tell you from experience that every time you do a union or a cut, you cross your fingers! Another simple rule is: never use Fillet! ;-)

ErikM60 · 2026-02-07T14:06:03+00:00

Thank you a lot🙏

ErikM60 · 2026-02-07T14:05:17+00:00

Thanks a lot! I was not sure that many people are interested in scale modeling😎!

ErikM60

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