Dave Wood

First complete print - still a bit messy - but getting closer

In printer

Up closer 

For scale - size comparison with P&O Arvia 1:250

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

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.

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

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)

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

7 hours ago, Dr PR said:

Are you by any chance the NAVOCS A-6905 Dave Wood?

Not afraid not whoever that is.

Fair bit more progress on the some of the deck stuff and decoration

Missing sails added and individually shaped for each mast.

Update - added a few more ropes

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

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.

Design starting to come along nicely

Added some more detail

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.

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.

 

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

1 hour ago, Javelin said:

I had a further look at the ship and think I know where you got that. The three markings on the hull, where you located those thrusters are actually signs to show tugs where they can push. They're not thruster marks like on the bow. 

 

She doesn't have stern thrusters neither, since the azipods can be used sideways aft. 

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

6 minutes ago, Javelin said:

I had a further look at the ship and think I know where you got that. The three markings on the hull, where you located those thrusters are actually signs to show tugs where they can push. They're not thruster marks like on the bow. 

 

She doesn't have stern thrusters neither, since the azipods can be used sideways aft. 

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.

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.

Now installed in upgraded cabinet with rest of fleet.

Finished. Might just add a few flags. Biggest problem now is finding somewhere suitable in the house to display it.

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.

Closer to realistic high ropes now modelled, plus some corrections to deck 18 - not sure how well it is going to print though.

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.

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.

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.