Dave Wood
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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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Now installed in upgraded cabinet with rest of fleet.
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Finished. Might just add a few flags. Biggest problem now is finding somewhere suitable in the house to display it. IMG_8354.mov
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Quite pleased at how the high ropes etc. print came out - had to resort to thread to rescue a couple of failed sections - but maybe I should use it a little more for some other ropes.
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Closer to realistic high ropes now modelled, plus some corrections to deck 18 - not sure how well it is going to print though.
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Bit of yellow staining on some white parts - so should have increased flushing volumes, but will do for now. So that's all of deck 18 now complete. Might reprint though with a more sandy yellow colour filament if I can find a suitable one. Just deck 19 and funnel to go now.
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Finer details of onboard crazy golf coming along - quite please with roofs of little shacks - did it with a loft, which is shelled, then on one surface put some random sketch lines, then did pipes along each line. Then did a circular pattern to replicate the lines over each face.
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Now complete up to Deck17 - most of deck18 ready to go - just the high ropes and golf course to add detail to. Biggest issue is fixing Deck17 down - had hoped to do this deck with magnets - however proving difficult to get them to fit on the underside. Quite pleased how the Sun Beds came out.
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Just discovered this fantastic thread on Cruise Community. Arvia Construction wish I'd found it earlier - but will be very useful for later below waterline additions. Plus I think I will also try and break the 1:1000 version into real sections as they were delivered - might try making a video that intersperses the parts being delivered and then being built up one by one. Deck build up continuing to progress nicely - also interesting to see the difference in scale between this 1:250 model and the 1:1000 P&O Cruises Ventura model that I am also working on. Its a slightly smaller ship - but looks tiny compared to Ariva 250. Next stage is to Model more detail into Deck16 before I can print it- particularly the swim up bar at the back.
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Ship really starting to take shape.
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Sorry about that - mine didn't seem to appear at first, but it is now coming up in the 'Overview section' - just beneath 'content view behavour'
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Haha - Given the lack of interest in the 1:500 models I published - probably won't bother releasing 1:250 models any time soon. Plus this will probably be the only one I do myself as printing it is taking weeks to print the 100+ plates, plus I don't have the space for too many. I am however going to opposite direction - currently prototyping a 1:1000 version of Ventura that you can print on a single plate. About 6 hrs printing time single colour and about 20hrs multi colour.
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Now up to deck 11, with deck 12-15 ready to print (Luckily the middle 4 sections of deck 10-15 are all identical). Had some challenges with Fusion 360 - particularly relating to changing my deck section joining method over from 'tight dovetails' to mostly 'springy T slot' (other than the centre joint with is a 'loose dovetail' to allow for dissassembly. Quite pleased with furniture demo on Promenade deck, and example person in controversial 'Balcony Mini Suite'. Will likely also create a 1:1250 version of Arvia model too - as _CNPICs on printables has printed my Iona 1:500 model single colour in one go at 1:1250 and it came out surprisingly well. Iona 1:1250 print.
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