Jump to content

Haze Gray

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    79

  • Joined

  • Last visited

Recent Profile Visitors

716 profile views
  1.    GrandpaPhil reacted to a post in a topic: French Battleship Charles Martel by Haze Gray - 1/72 scale - Radio (plastic 3D printed)
  2.    lmagna reacted to a post in a topic: Experiences with 3D Printing for Ship Models
  3.    lmagna reacted to a post in a topic: Experiences with 3D Printing for Ship Models
  4.    lmagna reacted to a post in a topic: Experiences with 3D Printing for Ship Models
  5.    thibaultron reacted to a post in a topic: Experiences with 3D Printing for Ship Models
  6.    Canute reacted to a post in a topic: Experiences with 3D Printing for Ship Models
  7. Haze Gray
    Hi haven't tried this but thought I would share (as it might have uses outside of fine modeling). Truck Bed Liners Improve 3D Prints | Hackaday
  8.    thibaultron reacted to a post in a topic: Experiences with 3D Printing for Ship Models
  9.    Canute reacted to a post in a topic: Experiences with 3D Printing for Ship Models
  10. Haze Gray
    Ambient air temperature can make a bid difference with resin printers - you might want to try putting the resin printer in a closet with a small space heater on low, get the air temp in the 70's or low 80's and see if you get more successful prints.
  11.    mtaylor reacted to a post in a topic: Experiences with 3D Printing for Ship Models
  12.    thibaultron reacted to a post in a topic: Experiences with 3D Printing for Ship Models
  13. Haze Gray
    I think Bilge rat is probably right about the rabbit hole - but I'd say you're probably further down that hole than you think! This topic has a lot of great information: https://modelshipworld.com/forum/34-cad-and-3d-modellingdrafting-plans-with-software/ How things are done in fusion similar to how things are done in blender - basically tracing hull lines and then some lofting operations. I'd recommend just finding plans of a ship that you're passionate about and heading over to that "model drafting plans with software" topic and start posting your attempts, you'll get a lot o
  14. Haze Gray
    Wefalck, I forgot to address your question on smoothing out the lines - I typically sand down the layers (sometimes by hand, sometimes using a small orbital sander) and also I sometimes put a very very thin coat of gesso and then sand that flat. when I say thin, I mean very very thin layer of gesso - it can work really well but I've not perfected that technique but it can work extremely well.
  15. Haze Gray
    Cost can vary depending on the skin thickness and the infill percentage - these days I go with 0.7mm skin and 20-25% infill depending on the part - and the cost range from ~$60 - $120 for the hull. I've noticed though that some resin ship kits can get pretty expensive, more than what it costs to print a large scale one in PLA.
  16. Haze Gray started following Experiences with 3D Printing for Ship Models
  17. Haze Gray
    Glad I found this thread - I've been designing and printing hulls for the past few years (mostly designing as I like that part the most) but do print some in large scale using PLA+, but I did pick up a resin printer so i can start printing them out in a smaller format for even more fun. I've been using fusion and it took me awhile to figure out how to do it (that was back in 2018!) Largest hull I have is about 1.7M long but I have a few plans for 2+ meter long hulls. Since most of what I print is large I spend a lot of time maintaining machines (especially the wiring) and used t
  18. Haze Gray
    Another update here - after finishing printing all the hull sections yesterday I spent some time cleaning them up a bit. Prior to permanently joining them all together I needed to put in some of the threaded inserts for stepper mounts and the arduino control board. The "heat inserts" I use are from Mcmaster Carr: heat inserts | McMaster-Carr and they come in a many different sizes. I typically use 3mm inserts with 3mm machine screws, and there's several different types available even in just the 3mm size. The row on the left are for 3mm and there's a 2mm example on the right side in this
  19. Haze Gray
    Now have section 1-4 printed, just two more to go (about 8 days or so) - was able to use the dinner table when my wife wasn't looking 😃
  20. Haze Gray started following fnkershner
  21. Haze Gray
    Thought I'd drop in with a short update - sections 1 & 2 completed. 3rd section is printing and should complete sometime on Wednesday... things are a bit behind schedule due to power outage (and I biff'ed on resuming the print properly).
  22. Haze Gray
    Update - I've been spending the last week or so getting the hull ready to actually print - I've been taking hull and and slicing it up and putting in provisions for stepper actuated turrets. There's going to be 6 hull sections - the longest is the stern at 376mm (which is just shy of 15 inches) and I'm estimating about 18 total days to print all hull sections. While the hull in printing I'll finish up the deck work which is kind of the fun/extremely challenging part since there's really a gap in the plans on the details and will be mostly done by staring at photos for hours on end to get wh
  23. Haze Gray
  24. Haze Gray
    Hi Yuuki, I don’t think scaling it down to 1/350 would work well - some of the features are thin like 1mm so at 1/350 scale that becomes ~0.2mm. It might be possible with a resin printer do you have one of those?
  25. Haze Gray
    I'm starting to get into the part of the design where I have to lean more and more into what I can what I can understand based on the photos of the ship. There's really very little in the way of the original French designs for the structure above the main deck - sometimes I superimpose photos on the model to get a feel for how really was. I stared at 5 different images for 2 hours looking at the superstructure from different perspectives - there no way I can be 100% sure I'm working in the right direction I just tweak details as I go along and check and double check as I move forward.
  26. Haze Gray started following Nirvana
  27. Haze Gray
    Thought I'd make a bit more progress before turning in
  28. Haze Gray
    Yeah a lot of the French ships have that steampunk flare to them (Pic is of the 'Devastation ')

About us

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

SSL Secured

Your security is important for us so this Website is SSL-Secured

NRG Mailing Address

Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917

Helpful Links

About the NRG

If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.

The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.

The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.

Our Emblem™

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research
×
×
  • Create New...