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Dave Wood

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  5. Dave Wood
    Made a start today on modelling Marella Voyager - which the ship has been known as since 2023. Prior to that it was named as: 1997–2008: Mercury 2008–2011: Celebrity Mercury 2011–2019: Mein Schiff 2 2019–2023: Mein Schiff Herz 2023 onwards: Marella Voyager The ship is 264m long. It seems to be a more or less identical to its century class sister ship to Marella Explorer from 1996. Also Marella Explorer 2 - was the first ship in the century class in 1995 this ship is actually 15m shorter. I am going to be doing the modelling from photos, not to scale deck plans and any drone ship pictures I can find. I have started the model using this photo by Mike Peel of the ship when it was in its 2021 Mein Schiff Herz livery. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:At_Tenerife_2021_0326.jpg I am planning on modelling the ship in all its previous liveries - but my primary focus is its current Marella colours - My target is to have an initial 1:1000 version of the ship available to compare with the real ship when I cruise on her in Jan 26.
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  13. Dave Wood
    One of the people who downloaded my model from Makerworld has put it in a nice case - I thought it was a real display model for a minute..
  14. Dave Wood
    Model finished - and published on Makerworld Link in video description
  15. Dave Wood
    1:500 now pretty much finished. Just need some screw covers - it used 2 x 12mm M4 Cap head bolts and 1 x 30mm - Will put it on Makerworld shortly. 1:1000 and 1:500 QM2 With my more detailed 1:500 Queen Victoria. with P&O Iona and Arvia 1:500 Timelapse of final 6 hr section. video_2025-10-03_16-48-50.mp4 Overview IMG_8415.MOV
  16. Dave Wood
    Thanks for the suggestion - I've never know what the best scale is for the bigger models - 1:200 definitely possible - might do that instead of 1:250 - because whilst it would be nice to have a 1:250 to compare with my Arvia model (in background - with Arvia and Iona 1:500 above any below)
  17. Dave Wood
    A few more decks - only 1 section left to go - but it is nearly 6hrs
  18. Dave Wood
    Deck11 now complete on 1:500 model - Also making a start on the 1:250 version - taking detail up quite a lot First single colour test print worked fairly well - interesting to compare the sizes of the 3 scales. 1:1000, 1:500 detail level 1:250 detail level S
  19. Dave Wood
    With Queen Victoria and P&O Arcadia (which was originally built as QV). - All at same 1:500 scale - with 1:1000 QM2 at the front.
  20. Dave Wood
    Quite good progress made today on 1:500 version.
  21. Dave Wood
    First few parts completed - its amazing how much bigger the 1:500 model parts look than the 1:1000. Much easier to see the detail.
  22. Dave Wood
    Making a start now on the 1:500 version - probably about 48hrs worth of printing to do - on 2 printers (H2D and X1C). First plates on each now underway.
  23. Dave Wood
    Improved more detailed 1:1000 version now pretty much complete. Printed partly at 0.4mm resolution and partly at 0.2mm. Next stage is the scale everything up by 2x - to get the same print at 1:500 scale - will do the whole print at 0.4mm resolution (0.4mm nozzle). IMG_8366.MOV IMG_8366.MOV Ship yard Decks being fitted one at a time
  24. Dave Wood
    Finally back to reprinting the corrected details - detail is so small printer is having a bit of trouble - so having to enlarge some parts. Deck 7 needs to be reprinted due to failed stairs (8 hr print) S Having a bit of trouble with deck 12 rear Ship yard (on multi headed SV08 - which is currently not ready for this sort of print) - using H2D and X1Cs at the moment
  25. Dave Wood
    Various tweaks made to design to make it closer to the real ship Most complex was funnel shape. New design at top, real ship middle, previous design below
  26. Dave Wood
    Comparison between draft model and real ship

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