Dave Wood
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Sea Cloud Multi Colour with a few lights for rigging.
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Ship with some of its earlier prototypes before they are melted down - see this video for details of how I recycle my old prints.
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Some time lapses of the 3d prints
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After correct colour masts added and initial cleanup. Will probably do a version will fuller sails, plus might even create a 1943 'grey' version. Pictured with rest of 3d printed 1:250 fleet
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Almost complete -
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Multi Colour print now ready to start. Will print masts and sails separately - as otherwise the colour changes between white and brown will take almost 2 days. 50% printed
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After some improvements to the supports back half printed almost perfectly. Not sure whether to rig it with thread or wire - looks quite nice with LED light strings.
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First complete print - still a bit messy - but getting closer In printer Up closer For scale - size comparison with P&O Arvia 1:250
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Print came out fairly well - but a few tweaks required Masts swayed a bit while printing - so going to try to see if some temporarily horizontal stabilisers help too
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Supports now applied to all sails, and ship now properly split into 2 sections for printing single colour at a scale of 1:250. Next step is a single colour test print of the rear half.
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Making progress on Sea Cloud 3d print - initial single colour attempt at 3d print (without enough supports). Adding some custom supports seems to have fixed the issue
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came across the rest of the Sea Cloud fleet in Lanzarote last week (while on Cunard Queen Victoria) - Sea Cloud Spirit See Cloud 2 From Queen Victoria (pictured in Madeira with one of my other models)
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Has been wrestling with what to do about the ropes - whether to 3d print them etc. - Decided in the first instance to try making them out of copper wire led strings - The wires are doubled up and are about 0.25mm diameter - with the led's about 100mm apart. Should like quite good hopefully. Example render attached. Day time Night time
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Not afraid not whoever that is.
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Fair bit more progress on the some of the deck stuff and decoration
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Missing sails added and individually shaped for each mast. Update - added a few more ropes
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Quite good progress today on 3d model. Need to do some more work on the sails and add more details - but might try some test prints before going too much farther. Some comparison shots Rendered version With some other much larger cruise ships
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Tried a test print of the little sail at the top of the front mast to see if it would be practical at 1:250 scale. Came out pretty well. Illustration of the size of the ship at 1:250 scale compared to build plate - so should only need to split it once in the middle. Lots more detail to add - especially the ropes, windows, doors and deck furniture.
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Design starting to come along nicely Added some more detail
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I have started today on a 3d model for 3d printing of Sea Cloud - this 1931 ship is pictured by me last year in Malaga and Cadiz. (from P&O Cruises Azura). The design will be done in Autodesk Fusion 360 and then printed multi colour on a 3d printer. This will be my first sailed ship and previous cruise ship models I have produced are all more recent ships. First prototype picture of a test ship with sail attached too. Background info on the ship here - with pictures of the ship in full sail and details of its fairly long history. https://www.seacloud.com/en/sea-cloud/ My most recent conventional cruise ship model is here - this is a 1:500 version of Cunard Queen Victoria. This ship is about 300m long and the model about 60cm long - vs Sea Cloud being 109m long - so the 1:250 Sea Cloud model will be about 2/3 of the length of this model or about 42cm. Might decide to increase the scale a bit if the detail proves challenging to model/print at 1:250.
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Good progress made today on printing the underwater hull. One of the biggest problems is that the Azipods are so small - but managed to get them to work - prints a little bit stringy - but I think I can clean them up. 1:1000 version (which is 1/4 of the size of the big ship in this thread) now more or less complete - just need to do a final reporting tomorrow with the bow thruster props and stabilisers too.
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Thanks Javelin for the info - have updated the bow thrusters to add in motors that are on opposite side of propellors that turn in the same direction. Will add some grills too at some point
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Thanks for the feedback - have corrected the underside of the ship to a) Remove 3 thrusters, b) Swap the direction of some of the propellors, c) Aim the stabilisers slightly down. Have also included some Fusion 360 renders too
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Great thanks for the feedback and you are correct I thought those signs on the side mean't there were thrusters there, so will remove them. Plus will also angle the fins down a bit. Also I think I need to change the direction of the propellors too on one of the azipods and two of the remaining thrusters.
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Finally got round to modelling the underwater parts of Arvia - presented in this pictures underneath Iona - as I assume the two sisters are probably identical under the water. Not sure if I have got the proportions correct, shapes quite right, or whether I have missed any bits. Will probably just apply these additions to my 1:1000 versions initially. Got the shapes from various photos on Cruise Critic and YouTube. May contact yard as suggested a few months ago - with this pictures to see if they are willing to help with better pictures or plans.
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