oh okay, thanks for telling me. now i know!
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haha so funny!!! like it!!!
I like the look of the Disney ships and did request permission from Disney using their process a while ago - but never got a reply I am afraid.
Will follow this and RCCL again once I run out of ships that I have permission to release.
okay sounds good. thanks for telling me
Amazing work! The level of detail here is incredible! 
Thanks - Then prints shown are 1:1000/0.4mm nozzle. I’m actually going a level of detail more than this on the 1:500/0.4mm version - which I’m then going to try printing at 1:1000/0.2mm. I’m also going to try scaling the 1:1000/0.4mm version down to 1:2000/0.2mm too to see how it comes out.
Ready now I think - printing it in one go took about 7 hours - it stopped once due to white running out, and about three times with AI errors - which I told it to ignore.
A little bit stringy - but good enough I think for Makerworld.
The front two ships are the one done in one go, and the one done in 4 parts. The rest are previous test prints with slight flaws, plus the original version at the back that I did a couple of years ago - but didn’t release until I finally got to cruise on the ship a few weeks ago.
Short video - showing Fusion Model and Timelapse of 1:1000 Aurora print - which is now published on Makerworld.
1:500 print progressing fairly well - one AI stop, 1 stop due to snapped white filament, and a really strange stop due to being unable to extract the Red Filament - It took me a while to work out what was going on - as I couldn’t find the AMS with Red in it - I eventually found it upside down behind the printer - it must have fallen off of the top!
Anyway recovered the print ok - and the first plate is still going.
Print failed shortly after previous post -as I had accidentally turned off the modelled supports below the lifeboats - so had to reprint the back and middle section - luckily the front section wasn’t affected - so did object cancellation.
I imagine a bit of orange filament was wasted due to now unnecessary colour changes - but overall print progressing well.
1:500 Aurora print almost complete - only 2 plates to go.
Had an issue with the h2C Supertach Build plate - which decided to lift off the parts and make them too messy to use - so ended up re-printing a whole plate again on a textured plate.
Strange - because I usually find supertach sticks better than textured.
Will have to try some glue I suppose.
Seeing that prime tower on the photo - does make me wonder whether that type of prime tower could be used as ‘springyT’ connectors - if the holes in the main parts were designed the correct shape.
Might try that for my next ship - the springyT’s for this one are this shape - note I am using purge-into-infill - although its mainly to avoid an extra plate on the H2C - rather than for actual purge saving.
Aurora 1:500 complete - will probably hold off for a few weeks on putting it on Makerworld as I am hoping to get Prusa to print a version on their CoreOne INDX - its already on Printables - but only in a CoreOne 3mf.
Showing the additional detail on the 1:500 version.
Next stage - I am going to try printing the lower detailed version 1:1000 / 0.4mm - at 1:2000 / 0.2mm - i.e. A quarter size of the larger one shown - as I’ve now got 5 nozzles (1+4), plus a filament track switch to try in the Beta H2C firmware.
Been silently looking at this topic and i got to say it’s great. Don’t know if i would be patient enough to print it when it’s available, but i am starting to think that i should 
Great work! 
Yes - I would like to do something like that - because I always liked those sort of pictures.
In the first instance I will probably do a version of my Cunard Queen Mary 2 model with at least the main dining room fleshed out - because apparently Cunard’s first ship - called Britannia - which was a transatlantic paddle steamer - was small enough the fit into QM2’s main dining room (which is also called Britannia) - so I want to do a version that somehow shows a ‘ship within a ship’ - with the main dining room rendered.
Thanks - Aurora 1:1000 is probably my quickest printing ship model - on an H2C - as its P&O’s smallest ship - only 7 hrs - and only about 350 colour changes 
And, if it might interest you, I’d very much wish to see a larger scale FDM model of one of the historically famous Mississippi steamboat paddlewheelers, that are, next to XV-th - XVI-th century tall boats that I’ve built over the years (in plywood, not FDM), ones of my long time favorites, which, sadly, appear not to present that much interest anymore within the modeling community.
I second this idea
You really need a “Buy me a cup of coffee”