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Plastic model
Post by phillies   » Wed Jun 17, 2020 12:05 am

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Did anyone ever sell a plastic model or toy representing a Harrington Class SD at a reasonable physical size, say a foot long?
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Re: Plastic model
Post by Theemile   » Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:15 am

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phillies wrote:Did anyone ever sell a plastic model or toy representing a Harrington Class SD at a reasonable physical size, say a foot long?

Thingiverse has several fan designed models. If you know someone with a 3d printer, they could print you one.
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RFC said "refitting a Beowulfan SD to Manticoran standards would be just as difficult as refitting a standard SLN SD to those standards. In other words, it would be cheaper and faster to build new ships."
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Re: Plastic model
Post by kzt   » Wed Jun 17, 2020 2:02 am

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phillies wrote:Did anyone ever sell a plastic model or toy representing a Harrington Class SD at a reasonable physical size, say a foot long?

You can find vaguely dimensional appropriate 'models' at 'adult' stores. Though they are called something else... :P
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Re: Plastic model
Post by phillies   » Wed Jun 17, 2020 2:59 pm

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I don't think you understood my question.

kzt wrote:
phillies wrote:Did anyone ever sell a plastic model or toy representing a Harrington Class SD at a reasonable physical size, say a foot long?

You can find vaguely dimensional appropriate 'models' at 'adult' stores. Though they are called something else... :P
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Re: Plastic model
Post by kzt   » Wed Jun 17, 2020 3:32 pm

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phillies wrote:I don't think you understood my question.

Oh I did. David was kind of shocked when someone did a drawing of what he described...
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Re: Plastic model
Post by MaxxQ   » Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:36 pm

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https://imgur.com/gallery/IixES51

Sigh... not even two minutes after uploading the pics, someone HAD to make a comment based on what kzt was referring to.
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Re: Plastic model
Post by Jonathan_S   » Sat Jul 18, 2020 8:42 pm

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MaxxQ wrote:https://imgur.com/gallery/IixES51

Sigh... not even two minutes after uploading the pics, someone HAD to make a comment based on what kzt was referring to.

Nice 3D model!
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Re: Plastic model
Post by MaxxQ   » Sat Jul 18, 2020 8:47 pm

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Jonathan_S wrote:
MaxxQ wrote:https://imgur.com/gallery/IixES51

Sigh... not even two minutes after uploading the pics, someone HAD to make a comment based on what kzt was referring to.

Nice 3D model!


Thanks. Figured it was about time I did something physical with all those CG renders I did. That, and I bought a 3D printer to play around with :mrgreen:
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Re: Plastic model
Post by kzt   » Sat Jul 18, 2020 11:49 pm

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Nice work. Was this painted and sanded or did it come out of the printer like that?
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Re: Plastic model
Post by MaxxQ   » Sun Jul 19, 2020 1:24 am

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kzt wrote:Nice work. Was this painted and sanded or did it come out of the printer like that?


The printer can only handle 230mm x 230mm x 250mm, so the main hull was printed out in 5 parts, glued together, primed with filler/primer (three coats, with heavy sanding in between) with a final, smooth-sanded layer of regular primer. At that point, I glued on all the detail bits, which were barely large enough for the printer to handle that level of detail. After that, a couple light coats of white overall, and brush-painted details.

Still not completely happy with the way it turned out, and I suspect a resin printer will be able to handle the finer detail needed for this scale. My filament printer can probably do it with a smaller nozzle (standard is 0.4mm, I can go down to a 0.2mm nozzle) and the right settings, but I wanted to get this one done, so didn't spend too long fiddling around with my slicer (Cura) settings.
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