USS St. Louis (CL-20) by highlanderburial - FINISHED - 1/200 scale - 3d Print

[highlanderburial]

So I have been playing the game World of Warships for quite sometime and I have been begging them to release some of their warship files so people could print and model them. Last year they did just that with the 1905 USS St. Louis CL 20. It is a 426 fool US armored cruiser which fought in WWI and was built in Philadelphia, PA. I have been printing for some time but this is the first full on ship print I have attempted. I just got a very good new Fused Deposit Material (FDM) printer and it is working wonders on printing the parts for me to assemble so far.

[ccoyle]

St. Louis' sister ship, USS Milwaukee (CL-21), stranded on the beach at Samoa, California, in 1917 while trying to tow off a stranded submarine. The submarine, H-3, was subsequently hauled over the North Jetty of Humboldt Bay, refloated, and eventually placed back in service. 

 

Photo in public domain, courtesy of Wikipedia

[highlanderburial]

11 hours ago, ccoyle said:

St. Louis' sister ship, USS Milwaukee (CL-21), stranded on the beach at Samoa, California, in 1917 while trying to tow off a stranded submarine. The submarine, H-3, was subsequently hauled over the North Jetty of Humboldt Bay, refloated, and eventually placed back in service. 

 

Photo in public domain, courtesy of Wikipedia

 This is a great photo and having been to that part of the world up to Humbolt and Crescent City, I can see how that part of the coast is super unforgiving! This design has kind of grown on me since I started.

[highlanderburial]

A video of the printing of the bow section!

[highlanderburial]

An interesting thing happened a few weeks back. A person stopped by our ship model club meeting and donated an S D model of the St. Louis done up in her WWI camo. The model was busted up from shipping. I started restoring it in addition to building my 1/200 scale St. Louis.

[highlanderburial]

Work on my 1/200 scale St. Louis continues. I finally got the decks looking like I wanted. (Mostly)

Edited March 6 by highlanderburial
Forgot pics!

[hollowneck]

Impressive recovery work CWO Highlanderburial.

I can't wait to see your restoration in person at the next Philadelphia Ship Model Society's monthly meeting!

 

Nice - ah - nice...

 

Ron

[highlanderburial]

All except for the anchor fluke work on the 1/150 ish St Louis is complete!

[highlanderburial]

1/150 ish 1917 version vs 1/200  1906 version unfinished size comparison

[highlanderburial]

Close up of the 1906.

[Azzoun]

Excellent work recovering this damaged model Todd!

[KeithAug]

Fascinating model and build process. I know nothing about 3d printing. Can you select the print quality to get very fine detail or does the extrusion head dictate how fine the detail can be?