Approximately a year ago I managed to obtain a Circut Maker crafting machine at a really good price. I made several posts about it over in the "Modeling with the Circut Explore" facebook group. I have decided to repost those here at MRH since that is a closed group and more modelers will have access to the information on the MRH site.

A promising Start

I have been experimenting with printing a On30 flat car on my home 3D Printer. This is a small simple FDM printer, nothing fancy. Like many beginners I have been using PLA filament. Its is very easy to print with and a very forgiving for 3D printing. My first pass at the car had made it to the spray booth and was looking very promising. However, the model would never make it to the layout.

The images and discussion of what happened follows in the first comment, below.

I have been experimenting with using a Pilot Precise V5 Pen in my Cricut Explore One to make nail holes. If you use a very small circle of .001" radius, the machine just effectively make the pen jab a hole.

However, I was noticing that my nail holes where not where I put them. They are all shifted off to the right in the picture above. I am using the Kid Sharp Productions pen holders pictured here:

I have been without a permanent work bench for about three years now. A couple of trips to the land of Ikea and some persistence, here is what I have come up with. Finally completed this afternoon. Now to unpack the tools and start building some models. Never though I would miss the smell of Tenax 7R.

Construction Details