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View File Belly Strap for 1_32 Tamiya Phantom for Posting.studio3 Belly Strap for 1_32 Tamiya Phantom for Posting.studio3: I made this belly reinforcing Strap for an outstanding modeller (Anthony) in New Zealand who is doing a spectacular conversion of the Tamiya 1/32 F-4 to a British FG.1 here. My source material from the Internet included photos, tech diagrams, AfterMarket sets, and model kits. I cut the strap using .010" plastic in my Silhouette Cameo 4. The straps are tailored to the Tamiya 1/32 kit, so would need modification to fit other kits' panel lines and wheel wells. Also attached is an svg file for use with other cutting machines. Gene K Submitter GeneK Submitted 02/06/2022 Category Non-Mask Cutting Files Scale 1/32 Intended Kit Tamiya F-4E  

What an outstanding way to illustrate mask placement!!! Really well done. Gene K

Will, Not sure if you are asking me or Michel, but here is my take: Disclaimer: I use a Silhouette Cameo 4, and have no experience with a Cricut. Like you, the many factors I had to tune to get the finest cuts include: material (I use Oramask 810); blades (I use 60degree for fine); mats (I use standard grip OEM); and software -- cut settings such as depth, pressure, speed, number of passes (I experimented and created my own Oramask Material Profile including slowest speed and one pass). Silhouette software also has settings for track enhancement and overcut (I use track enhancement, but overcut depends on the design). I am amazed at how precise the Cameo cuts, and marvel at how repeatable the cuts are. Gene K

Appreciate your adding this section! Hopefully we'll see some innovative cut files posted here. I'm refining some 1/72 F-4 Phantom Silhouette cut files (plus accompanying SVG), including Seamless Intakes and belly reinforcement straps. If someone has a parts request for a specific Phantom model, I can probably work it up. Gene K

Why do you have to re-scale "a regular jpg" after importing? Is the scanner not set up to output at 100% (fullscale)? EDIT: I just scanned a ruler and saved the output as jpg, png, pdf, and tif ... and all imported (dragged) into Studio in the same true scale. I also varied the resolution from 75 to 600 dpi with no impact. I use a Canon printer/scanner with the Canon software (IJ Scan utility). Shouldn't make any difference, but what scanner and program are you using? Gene K P.S. I'm enjoying this thread, so thanks ... could you post your attachments at a higher resolution, please, so I can more fully appreciate your work?

View File Canopy Masks for 1/72 Hasegawa F-4 Silhouette Studio Canopy Masks for ALL 1/72 Hasegawa "new" Phantom kits released in 1990 and after. Hasegawa does not differentiate between long nose or short nose windscreens as do the new FineMolds kits (the long nose Phantoms have shorter windscreens than the short nose Phantoms). An SVG file is included for use with other cutters like the Cricut ... or for manual cutting. Gene K Submitter GeneK Submitted 09/19/2021 Category Canopy Masks  

View File Canopy Mask for FineMolds 1/72 Short Nose Phantoms Fine Molds currently produces 1/72 long nose (F-4E, F-4EJ, RF-4EJ) as well as short nose (F-4C, F-4J) Phantom kits (with hopefully more variants coming). As concerns canopies, the short nose variants have a longer windscreen as illustrated here , and FineMolds have commendably noted and molded separate clear sprues. I have previously posted FM long nose masks here. I have added an SVG file for use in other cutters such as the Cricut ... or to cut manuall. Submitter GeneK Submitted 09/18/2021 Category Canopy Masks  

Many thanks for the well thought out conversion, and for the outstanding Studio cut files. I've really enjoyed watching your progress on Large Scale Planes. I'll follow the steps you presented in LSP to lay out a 1/72 conversion for the the new FineMolds kits. In that regard, I've scaled down and cut your patterns, and it looks promising, but will take a lot of adjustments since Tamiya and FineMolds obviously used different reference drawings. Thanks again for the impressively drawn file! Gene K

View File Canopy Masks 1_72 FineMolds Long Nose Phantoms Canopy Masks for the 1/72 FineMolds Long Nose Phantoms (F-4E, F-4EJ, et al). Cut settings on my Cameo 4 using Oramask 810 are: Depth 2, Force 13, Passes 1, Speed 5; and for the cut-through-the-backing border are: Depth 5, Force 15, Passes 2, Speed 5. The FineMolds kits are the best 1/72 Phantoms on the market. Gene K Submitter GeneK Submitted 09/14/2021 Category Canopy Masks  

Thanks much, Michel! Could you post a link to the above picture, please? Is it a model or the real thing? Gene K

Matters to me since I appreciate the effort and precise work Michel expended to produce those accurate masks. I assume his leaving off the scale was a slight oversight. Hannover - the masks scale out to exactly 1/48 according to my reference. Thus it would be easy to go, for example, to 1/72 (66.6%) or 1/32 (150%) using the Transform/Scale feature in Studio (upper right panel in illustration below) : There are many Google references for mask placement, including this excellent VF-161 web site. Gene K

F-4B Tamiya 1/48 Canopy Mask View File Included in the Tamiya 1/48 F-4B kit is a printed canopy mask sheet that requires cutting out the individual pieces. This file does that cutting for you. Hand traced, and fits precisely. Cut settings are for Oramask 810 ... that also work with Tamiya tape. Gene K Submitter GeneK Submitted 09/11/2021 Category Canopy Masks  

Following MicroMiGMan's link in post #1, I used the on-line converter to get an svg from a studio3 file. Worked fine, but there are some limitations noted here. The linked site isn't the easiest to navigate, for example to find the cost of the various "products" ... but as concerns free studio to svg conversions, looks like there is a limit of 10 per day. Good deal!! I'll check tomorrow to see if my nine remaining goes back to 10. The Business version of Silhouette Studio has such a conversion feature (among other things), but that upgrade costs $100. Gene K

This is in response to an old post, so may have already been addressed elsewhere. You can open jpg as well as other raster files in Silhouette Studio, but you will then have to use the Trace portion of the program to make cut lines -- which you'll have to refine. Better to export a vector file from your CAD program and insert into Studio to get perfect cut lines without tracing. See here for file info as regards Studio. Gene K

I don't (necessarily) agree -- Silhouette Studio software comes in three versions - Basic, Designer, and Professional with prices of free, $50, and $100 respectively. Going by what I've seen on various forums over the past years, the Designer Edition is the most popular, being considered the best trade off between price and features. The free edition can import ready to cut (no tracing required) Studio/Studio3, GSD/GSD, and DXF files. The Designer Edition adds SVG and PDF (vector), while the Business Edition adds Ai, EPS, and CDR. So I would say SVG (and PDF) would be better choices here than EPS. As with Out2gtcha's experience, the vast majority of modeling folks I've met use Silhouette cutters, and in that regard, the best file format of course would be Studio/Studio3 files since these would include blade depth, force, material settings, etc. Unfortunately, the file creator would need the Business edition to export vector SVG and PDF files for use in other software. I agree that A FAQ/pin is a great idea ... it could include info like this on the Silhouette software. Gene K