Ha ha - By coincide I am currently trying out some gold filament to see if it looks like a good colour for some of the wooden decks as part of about 8 hrs worth of printing of minor refinements.
Am also trying some old wood filament - but its far too brittle to go through the AMS - so am currently printing some test wood versions on another Non Bambu printer at the same time!
Fusion 360 - Think I’m pushing the limits of what is practical within one model though in the way that I’m using it. Am working on a short video to explain the modelling process.
I’m working on a ship from Loot Studios. They broke it into 3 sections and 3 layers for the hull. It was done in a way that each section has a flat surface that can stick to the build plate. I use standard tree supports. Support critical, on bed only. So far everything prints perfectly. On taller sections Indo have to run at normal speed or hand draw more supports.
Interesting. For the first ship I did pretty much the only place I used supports for my other print was the little mast thing near the front at the top. I printed it as 13 separate level/decks - with each deck split into 3-6 sections each. About 25 separate build plates. Overall about 350 separate stl files.
Probably should have supported the bow section I just printed a bit because it’s come out a tiny bit rough, but not bad considering the amount of overhang. Or might try printing it upside down next time and supporting the bit of promenade deck on the side.
Print progressing on 2nd ship - about 7 plates worth done now - just printing the last 2 parts of deck 9 - only 10 more decks to go after that!
Plus also making quite a few improvements to the parts as I am going along - so will likely end up needing to reprint quite a lot of first ship too so that they match.
Printer and AMS continue to work well. Got one false alarm spaghetti failure yesterday - but other than that working well.
Started 3rd roll of eSun white earlier today (for 1.5 ships, plus a fair number of reprints) - managed again to change roll ok mid print - while another colour was printing.
Tried using ‘sport mode’ yesterday for one single colour part - went pretty well for the majority of part - but top surface a bit rough - not too much of an issue - as the top is hidden by the next layer. Will however stick with standard speed for now.
Print progressing well, but slowly. Had failure today again with old light Blue filament (that I only opened a few days ago) that I use for swimming pools. Works ok for a while - but if you leave it for a few days (in the AMS) the first couple of metres go brittle, and snap on retraction out of the extruder - I have to go through the reel until it stops snapping.
Might try drying it for a few hours - or just buy a new light blue.
Bought some card today for improved backgrounds to photos.
Plus also - as colours in model now up to 10 - 2 AMS no longer enough - so order in to Bambu Lab today:;
Matt - no just making them for myself at this stage - we’ve been on the first one (Ventura) a few times in the last twelve months, plus are booked to go on the 2nd one (Azura) next month.
The models being branded complicates sharing or selling possibilities I guess, I wonder if that’s one of the reasons most ship models seem to be of older ships?
I guess there might be a small market for the 3d models or prints, so have reached out to P&O Cruises to see what is possible - but no response so far.
Just a thought - perhaps ask the CEO directly. It’s amazing how connected some are, it can’t hurt. You might be surprised and he/she can bypass the rules and override the lower level people who might listen to the lawyers too much …
