Sea Cloud 1931 by Dave Wood - 1:250 - Cruise Ship

[Dave Wood]

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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Design starting to come along nicely

 

Added some more detail

Edited August 20 by Dave Wood
Added some more detail

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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.

[Dave Wood]

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 27 by Dave Wood
Removed other ships

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Missing sails added and individually shaped for each mast.

 

Update - added a few more ropes

 

Edited August 24 by Dave Wood
Added some ropes

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

 

[Dr PR]

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

[Dave Wood]

7 hours ago, Dr PR said:

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

Not afraid not whoever that is.

[Dave Wood]

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

 

[Dave Wood]

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)

[Dave Wood]

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

Edited November 20 by Dave Wood
Specified Single Colour

[Dave Wood]

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.

Edited November 20 by Dave Wood

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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

Edited November 20 by Dave Wood

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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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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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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

Edited November 24 by Dave Wood

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Almost complete - 

Edited November 25 by Dave Wood

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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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Some time lapses of the 3d prints

 

 

[Ian_Grant]

That's amazing!  Your Bambu X-1 does a fabulous job. I just bought a Bambu A1 but I'm a complete newbie, hoping for the best. Bank account didn't extend to buying the AMS Lite multi-colour system for now but I've seen incredible pictures of what can be done.

 

Your build is inspiring!

[Dave Wood]

Ship with some of its earlier prototypes before they are melted down - see this video for details of how I recycle my old prints.