Queen Mary 2 2004 by Dave Wood - 1:500 - 3D printed - Ocean Liner

[Dave Wood]

Made a start yesterday on QM2 Multi Colour 3d printed model - will design it for 1:500 initially, then scale down to 1:1000

Modelling from deck plans from Cunard site and various photos, using Fusion 360.
Will then Muti colour 3d print on a BambuLab X1C or H2D.
Hull shape needs a bit of work.  Will mirror it once a few more decks are done.

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Up to deck 7

 

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Filled out some of the details on deck6 & 7, plus started on deck8

 

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Quite a few improvements made to rear of decks, plus deck 9 now coming along

Edited June 11 by Dave Wood

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Quite a lot of work done on front

 

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Found I had got the decks confused at the front - had put the observation deck in one too low - so windows were all wrong too.  Now corrected.

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Not far off now,  only basic funnel added so far.

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Further refinements made - see here for 360 degree render.

 

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With Queen Victoria

 

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More details added -  plus short video showing how the decks appear in Fusion 360.

 

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Started 1:1000 print.

I am print some parts - with small details like railing and text on a BambuLab H2D with 0.2mm nozzles.

With the less detailed parts on a BambuLab X1C.

Tiny text

 

Tiny detail - in initial 2 colour test print of deck6 Aft


Whole ship so far.



Using this approach for the 1:1000 model will hopefully mean I can in the first instance simply print the exact same model at 1:500 scale but all on 0.4mm nozzles, split down into smaller parts when print size does not allow it to fit.
 

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Multi Colour mostly 0.2mm Nozzle looking quite good.   Deck6,8 & 9 aft shown - Deck7 all at 0.2mm still to be printed (will make about 5hrs)

Life boats and centre sections and main part of Hull printed 0.4mm

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1:1000 version of Model now fully sliced. - 11 colours in total.

0.2mm sections - total projected print time 16h4m. -  plates 5,6,7 to go - so about 11h more printing to go.

0.4mm sections - 9h24m  - plates 2 & 3 to go - about 6.5hrs more printing to do.

Edited June 26 by Dave Wood

[Dave Wood]

Almost complete - just deck 13 to go.

Hull + Deck6

Deck7

Deck8

Deck9

Forgot life boats part of Deck7 - so had to take it apart again to add them + Deck10

Deck11

Deck12

With part printed Deck13 - which I had to cancel due to misalignment of black

Close up of back - a bit mess - so some beefing up of railings needed.

Middle - some balcony glass issuesFront - problem with Cunard text and a few balcony glass issues.

More work required - but fairly pleased so far.
Just need deck 13 print to complete - which is about 3hrs in total.

Edited June 27 by Dave Wood

[Dave Wood]

First test print complete -  the first time I think I have ever used full colour for the first test print - deck 13 came out pretty well - just two of the radar balls didn't quite work.

 

A fair number of updates required - but overall quite happy with the ship so far.

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Pretty much every part needed tweaking to overcome minor issues - so complete reprint will be required.

 

Am going on the real ship in a few weeks - so might wait until after the trip before doing the reprint - in case any further corrections identified.

Most significant correction is deck13 balconies - which didn't have enough height in the first print - so will reprint deck 13 at lease now.

Also created a transport / magnetic display adaptor for QM2 to make it easier to take onto real ship.

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Deck13 reprinted - this time with the correct balcony height, retractable roof tiles showing and domes now printing well.

Will probably leave the rest of the decks for now as most of the faults are invisible to my naked eye - and only really show up on close ups.