LEM Greebles turned out reasonably OK. I have to scale them down by 75% from my model to make them fit. A miscalculation of scale on my part.
The problem, at this scale it's hitting the detail limit with a 0.4mm nozzle. I tried printing vertically to take advantage of 0.5mm layer height but it wasn't an improvement.
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| LEMings |
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| If only it was this easy in the real space program. |
As they are, they will look fine in place and painted.
Side Frame Greeblies
Next set of greeblies I want to tackle are the tanks that sit at either side of the Eagle walkways, inside the frame.
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| Tank greeblies inside the frame structure. |
Fusion 360 to the rescue. It looks like a shelf with a number of fuel tanks connected by pipework, with what could be a lathe thrown in. The original looks like it has different diameters of pipework but I'm at the limit of what I can expect to print reliably.
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| Fusion 360 - Making the side greebles |
This took a number of test prints. One had the top pipes too high and had to be bent to fit inside the frame. And the next version I made included two holes I can glue short pieces of filament into, as a key....because printing them in two halves works better.
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| Slic3r - We cut it into two halves to print. |
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| The underside showing the key holes |
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| Printing the first layer |
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| Here's one I made earlier |
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| Need to add key holes - to help glue them correctly |
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| It works Jeeves! |
Cockpit Painting
Three layers of primer and sanding later. I got the bulk of the layers lines removed except for the window areas which will have acetate in them.
More primer!!!!
Got through 340, 600 and 1200 grit paper.
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