{"id":34719,"date":"2017-10-05T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/?p=34719"},"modified":"2017-10-10T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T15:27:06","slug":"talk-jeff-brown-shapeways-king-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/talk-jeff-brown-shapeways-king-toy","title":{"rendered":"A Talk With Jeff Brown, Shapeways’ ‘King Toy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The scale modeling community here at Shapeways just keeps amazing us with the things they’re creating<\/a>. Even more, we love that they’re working together to bring their perfect builds to life. We recently caught up with Jeff Brown of King Toy<\/a>, a model car maker with decades of experience, to tell us about his passion, why he does what he does, and how Shapeways is helping to make it easier.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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How long have you been working with model cars?<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
\nI started seriously building model cars about 30 years ago when I was 16. I had built lots of models before, but mainly planes and ships. It wasn’t until I started driving that I really go into all the creative things you could do to model cars.<\/p>\n

How does it feel, after the hours you put in modeling, tweaking, and getting things just right, to finally hold that finished piece in your hand?<\/em><\/strong>
\nWell, I have always been an artistic person. I see building model cars as an outlet for my artistic nature. I’m also a huge car guy, so I get ideas all the time for cars and trucks. This lets me bring them to life on a smaller scale. I also love making models of real-life cars as well.<\/p>\n

How did you buy or make model cars before you discovered Shapeways?<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
\nI generally bought most of my kits on-line from sites like eBay, specialty retailers, or small parts companies. Before Shapeways I sometimes had to buy a whole kit just for a special part. I was never afraid to kit bash or customize.
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\nHow has your experience been with buying and selling creations on Shapeways?<\/em><\/strong>
\nI always buy several copies of the pieces I create for my store<\/a> so I or my builder friends can use them. I have also bought parts from other makers to improve my models. Making new parts and using Shapeways has really taught me it takes a lot of time and effort to do this. Shapeways makes the process a lot easier helping with guidelines in the creative process.<\/p>\n

What 3D modeling software do you use, and how did you get started with it?<\/em><\/strong>
\nI use SketchUp<\/a>. Honestly, I just sat down and started playing with it. In the beginning I wasn’t sure what I could do with it, but things changed for the better soon enough.<\/p>\n

What has 3D printing added to your appreciation of model cars?<\/em><\/strong>
\nIt really opens the door for creating parts<\/a> and pieces that haven’t existed before<\/a>. I try to concentrate on making parts that are not available anywhere else, or helping replicate new real world parts that may take years to come to scale models.<\/p>\n

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How long does it take you to design one of the 3D printed models? What about Painting?<\/em><\/strong>
\nUsually it takes a week or two casually designing in spare time to do a simple part. One of my more complex parts took about a month or so of trial and error to get it just right. For painting I like using Frosted Ultra Detail<\/a> \u2014\u00a0it has a smoother surface for easier prepping and painting.<\/p>\n

Tell us about a project you’re particularly proud of.<\/em><\/strong>
\nThat would be my Street Beast purple ’83 Supra. It started as a model club build contest entry. I then decided to really go all out and push the envelope and try to showcase as many of my part creations that\u00a0I could. It has the first ever wheel design I did. I also has several of my aero enhancements.<\/p>\n

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Finally, what does the future hold for you? What do you have coming up, and what plans do you have moving forward for your model-making?<\/em><\/strong>
\nI try to continue to learn new techniques and tips to be a better builder. Most of what I have designed so far are external enhancements, but I’m currently working on designing some really new, off-the-wall products, possibly with some mechanical parts.<\/p>\n

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I want to get to a point where I can easily transition from using different sources for building models: kit part, 3D-printed, resin-cast or scratch-built. I am also trying to get back to where I started by trying bold ideas with my models.<\/p>\n

You can find more from Jeff at his Shapeways store<\/a>, and check out his\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and Facebook<\/a>\u00a0pages.<\/em><\/p>\n

All images provided by Jeff Brown.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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