Dave Wood

From a distance and with my eye sight deck8 stern print looking pretty good. Could perhaps refine the tiny models a little bit or maybe use a different filament for the arms - its PLA Metal. Still quite pleased with the results. Back section took about 8 hrs to print. Back section of deck 8 printed on 0.4mm nozzle, rest of ship so far all printed on 0.6mm Nozzle.

Quite a few changes to design required to incorporate wiring for LED lighting. Lessons learned. 1. Don't leave floors too thin when adding in cable runs - otherwise reprints will be required 2. Making the internals of the ship more hollow would make it much easier to add things like lighting for other future models. 3. Doing cable runs below decks is easier to manage than above - as wires can be taped in place before decks are bolted down 4. Allow inter deck holes to be big enough to accommodate shrink wrapped extensions to smaller wires 5. Make designs for LED holders more generic - to allow for changes to lights - and add ons such as individually addressable LEDs. 6. Consider having the collection point for the wiring at the bottom rather than near the top - so it is easier to handle wiring without having to worry about hiding it. 7. Check that cable routes are efficient and won't result in the need for extensions. 7. Consider adding wireless inter deck wiring interconnects like these in future designs - to make putting the model together, taking it apart and maintenance. Changes made to design to incorporate wiring + LED holders Deck7. - New channels and LED Holder Deck8 - new channels Deck16 - with space to wiring hub Deck17 - LED holder Deck18 Deck19 Funnel

Funnily enough i have been considering modelling some of these rowing boats in Fusion360 as i think they will make quite attractive 3d prints in different colours- Could also make an interesting video. i guess it would be best do do the overall hull shape first, then work out how to create the separate wood slats that wrap around it. Will see if i can work out a good way to model one then try doing an instructional video.

Kevin. I think you are right about the voiceover. Plus I have improved my methods a fair bit since doing this video - so should really create another version. My Iona/Arvia design for example ended up using a form/tspline for the fairly complex stern, but still lofts for the bow and main hull. Also the main difference in modelling approach was to only model one half of the ship. With mirroring of bodies done fairly near the end of the timeline to create the other half.

Backloaded build log. 17/7/23 P&O Cruises Arvia progressing well - fairly easy as it's pretty similar to Iona. Fusion 360 model is actually now of both ships - with some components and bodies needing to be switched off and on to switch between the two ships. Printed up to Deck 15 in Bambu Lab Sponsored Filament - and design changes for Deck16-19 now made - and ready to start making printable and printing over the next few days. Most complicated part was high ropes and crazy golf etc. 9 colours 19/7/23 First completed print - Arvia is the right hand ship Some Fusion 360 Renders Also did a fair bit of work on Fusion 360 export macros - rather than exporting 100s of Bodies that need to be coloured in Bambu Studio, new version of macro only outputs one body per colour per section of the ship (by going through the fairly slow process of hiding / showing / exporting the separate groups of bodies). Will publish new macro on Github at some point. 25/7/23 =- Yellow decks reprinted - plus High ropes improved 27/7/23 Design changed to include some lighting - render of expected look 31/7/23 - Lighting being added 1/8/23 - First lit version - with 9 LEDs from old BrixMax Lego lighting kit

My main area of gap is in the underwater profiles. So far I have only modelled above the waterline - but would like to try adding below waterline parts too - partly for display and partly for possilbe RC conversion and floating - so will give the shipyards a try first.

Update - I now seem to have a signature option when I access Ship Models for a desktop Mac on Safari - other attempts were from a laptop and iPad

Allan - I just used the deck plans that people use to choose their cabins which are not exactly to scale, then used photos and videos. Would be good though if i coupd find a way of getting access to the proper plans for these sort of ships. Dave

Herby, Did you ever sort out the problem with not being able to find the signature option? I've just joined and can't find it in account settings either. Have tried on different devices are browsers too. thanks

I have also looked at quite a few Kevin Kennedy videos, and also a lot of Lars Christensen ones and have found them very helpful. I did make an attempt at doing a video explain my own Fusion 360 ship design steps too, it's much harder than I expected to do live demos of smooth mouse movements etc so I started with just still pictures and descriptive text to see if there was any appetite for more. It didn't get many views and no comments so I didn't pursue it further. I may have another go in the future - but would probably need to do live demos and talking. Link to video here if anyone is interested or has any suggestions to offer. Ps/ looking at the thumbnail that came up when I inserted the link I just spotted I actually included a picture of the wrong ship - as that picture is Ventura's sister ship Azura

Thanks, looks like an interesting ship. We enjoyed Iona and hope to get to go on Arvia next year too.

That looks like Azura - we sailed on her a few months ago and will be on her again later this year. Currently working my way through the P&O Cruises fleet - have started a build log for my current Arvia 1:250 model - have included a photo of existing fleet at start.

Test prints for Deck 8 - using a 0.4mm nozzle and 0.2mm layer height. 2m human figures at 1:250 scale are around 8mm high. Earlier 1:500 models too small for these sort of details to be added.

Arvia with Deck 7 added,

Arvia water level hull (up to Deck 6). 3d printed in 6 sections - with print times in hrs (bow to stern 11,5,4,5,5,15). Printed using a 0.6mm Nozzle on Bambu Lab X1c

Current fleet TUI Skyla 1:250 TUI Skyla 1:500 P&O Cruises Arvia 1:500 P&O Cruises Iona 1:500 P&O Cruises Axura 1:500 P&O Cruises Ventura 1:500 (my first model, and ship we have sailed in the most)

First build log submission to this site, Currently building a 1:250 model of P&O's newest cruise ship Arvia, follow an earlier less detailed 1;500 build. Background - the earlier 1:500 scratch build I did of Arvia was based on an earlier 1:500 build I did of her sister ship Iona, which we sailed on in June 2022. 3d design done using Fusion 360 from Photos and Youtube videos. I am currently 3d printing this model using multi colour 3d filament on Bambu Lab X1C printers (using filament mostly sponsored by Bambu Lab). I do intend to also attempt some CNC and laser printing of cruise and other ship types once I have completed the next few ships. So far I have printed 1) the above sea leave hull - up to Deck 6, which consists of 6 parts joined together with dovetails - total print time about 45hrs. 2) Deck 7 - which consists of 5 parts, plus the 16 lifeboats - print time for this deck about 20 hrs. Currently I am working on refinements to the design of the promenade deck (Deck8) - which will have a fair amount of additional multi coloured detail when compared to my previous models - including features such as people, chairs, tables, loungers etc. - so likely to take a while to complete. The total number of decks are 19 - so quite a few to go. Will attempt some photo uploads in separate posts.

Hello from Suffolk, Uk. Have been scratch modelling ships for the last few months - initially cruise ships for 3d printing, but aiming to move into other categories of ship, together with CNC and laser cutting. I like the concept of your ship by ship build logging, plus knowledge sharing, particularly the modelling and photography categories. I have been effectively doing a build log of the 5 ships I've modelled so far using the 3d printer's forum here https://forum.bambulab.com/t/cruise-ship-print/5122/64 - but look forward to try out the build logs on your site. Also like the concept I see of including previous and future ship builds in signatures. My past built list is: P&O Cruise ship Ventura 1:500 scale https://www.printables.com/model/430425-po-cruises-ventura-cruise-ship P&O Cruise ship Azura 1:500 P&O Cruise ship Iona 1:500 https://www.printables.com/model/518421-po-cruise-ship-iona TUI River Cruise ship Skyla 1:500 and 1:250 P&O Cruise ship Arvia 1:500 Current ship P&O Cruise ship Arvia 1:250