Good morning all,
This is my first post in here - my account has just been approved, so I'm going to try and start off with something I've just finished...and we'll see how this works.
Long story long - (as this always is with me) I was asked by a friend if I could help make him a 3D printed ship to go with his railway layout. So, we bantered back and forth about that, and he settled upon wanting a Liberty Ship. There being a set of free plans for it available on thingiverse, I downloaded, scaled, and started printing. Liberty Ship (RC) - Revision 5 by JohnButtery - Thingiverse
Thing is, I had just bought a second 3D printer (a Prusa) that let me scale it to 1/88 because it had a slightly larger build plate than my older printer...so I built my friend's on the prusa, and while it was spitting out parts, I set my older printer to knocking together a 1/96 scale version (that would fit on its build plate) and so, for basically about 3 weeks, my printers were running continuously popping out parts.
Here's a 'partially done' picture:
And here are the two hulls complete:
As you can see in the lower photo, I also assembled and collected some hardware/running gear.
The original 3D model was fairly basic, and was scaled to about 1/160, so some of the 'detail' bits were lacking when scaled up a bit. My buddy is a former RCN Weapons Tech (he fixed the 76mm OTO Meleras on our destroyers) so I spent some time modifying, then creating entirely new detailed guns and other bits to improve the models. I uploaded most of those extra bits to Thingiverse, and here is the list of all the models that are available associated to this in case anyone wants to print one of these 'kits' as well:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4411101
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5259865
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5259056
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5274078
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5258022
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5259571
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5274077
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5259970
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5334214
Good morning all, This is my first post in here - my account has just been approved, so I'm going to try and start off with something I've just finished...and we'll see how this works. Long story long - (as this always is with me) I was asked by a friend if I could help make him a 3D printed ship to go with his railway layout. So, we bantered back and forth about that, and he settled upon wanting a Liberty Ship. There being a set of free plans for it available on thingiverse, I downloaded, scaled, and started printing. Liberty Ship (RC) - Revision 5 by JohnButtery - Thingiverse Thing is, I had just bought a second 3D printer (a Prusa) that let me scale it to 1/88 because it had a slightly larger build plate than my older printer...so I built my friend's on the prusa, and while it was spitting out parts, I set my older printer to knocking together a 1/96 scale version (that would fit on its build plate) and so, for basically about 3 weeks, my printers were running continuously popping out parts. Here's a 'partially done' picture: And here are the two hulls complete: As you can see in the lower photo, I also assembled and collected some hardware/running gear. The original 3D model was fairly basic, and was scaled to about 1/160, so some of the 'detail' bits were lacking when scaled up a bit. My buddy is a former RCN Weapons Tech (he fixed the 76mm OTO Meleras on our destroyers) so I spent some time modifying, then creating entirely new detailed guns and other bits to improve the models. I uploaded most of those extra bits to Thingiverse, and here is the list of all the models that are available associated to this in case anyone wants to print one of these 'kits' as well: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4411101 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5259865 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5259056 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5274078 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5258022 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5259571 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5274077 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5259970 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5334214
