3d printing - damn I'm hooked

Spack · by **Spack** » Sun Oct 16, 2022 12:29 pm

And a few more pieces

_stu_ · by **_stu_** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 10:50 pm

That's looking great. Need to get round to doing one of them at some point. Done a few big stompy things over the past few months

Spack · by **Spack** » Tue Nov 01, 2022 8:29 pm

The parts are printed, so I guess I need to figure out how to glue or all together. Lots of drilling and pinning coming soon.

Spack · by **Spack** » Sun Nov 06, 2022 9:39 pm

Got most of the Thunderhawk glued together today, the nose is still separate (hence the elastic bands) so I can get the ladders and flight deck out to paint the interior. There are some gaps that need filling due to some warping in the prints where I didn't support well enough, and a few areas where the parts were a pain to fit as the designer didn't leave any tolerance gaps between parts; in some cases the parts intersect each other so you have to grind bits off! The major parts are pinned as well as glued, the top half can be taken off so I can adjust things and gap fill before painting.

Not sure I'm happy with the crew, they are made up of some old Rhino crew heads and bodies from my bits box, and some printed speeder crew arms and legs with the shins narrowed down in Meshmixer.

Spack · by **Spack** » Sun Dec 04, 2022 9:42 pm

Printed out a Fire Raptor from a free file by IronMaster on Cults3d, came out really well and went together with little Hale. Now tempted to print out the Storm Eagle by the same creator.

Spack · by **Spack** » Sat Feb 04, 2023 2:21 pm

Been a bit quiet on here again. Weather has been a bit cold to making printing a bit harder, but now I've got a heater running I'm churning outv prints again.

So i printed a Lucius Warhound last week. Stupidly I only checked the Suze of the foot model against my FW Chaos Warhound and as the were the same size printed the rest of the parts without checking, it's a little under sized and I should have scales it up to 120%. Argh!