Model Boat Mayhem
Technical, Techniques, Hints, and Tips => 3D CAD Design & Printing => Topic started by: malcf on March 30, 2016, 09:04:18 pm
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Hi I am Malc and I have been building the Uss John Finn DDG 113 in 1/72 scale and last year I managed to persuade my better half that I needed a CTC 3D printer to make some parts for the boat, it is and still is a long learning curve to draw up parts for printing, I have posted some photo,s of parts that I have made, many of them I would have struggled with to maintain the accuracy by other means.
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Here are a few more pics of various items inc the 45 gun which took about 8 hours to draw up and program and quite a few prototypes and also the aft vls made up from about 10 parts glued together and also the radomes which where quite easy to draw up.
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Excellent looking prints! The domes and missile silo top look especially good.
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Did you go for the CTC Dual head makerbot clone?
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Hi thanks for the comments , yes I went for the dual head ctc after weighing up the pro,s and cons of the other printers after I had decided to buy a ready built one instead of making one out of a kit (didn't have the time and could easily have got it wrong) the ctc is now even better value as they have reduced the price by at least £100 from when I got mine sods law that, it printed fine out of the box but I have done various mods to it since which has improved the quality of the prints, and I am using draftsight for the cad drawing and sketchup for turning it into an stl file, I then use simplify 3d to slice it.