neilcostford's Print of Undead Pirate Ship
Community Print Impresión 3D de Undead Pirate Ship
Published 2020-08-06T17:27:43+00:00
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Impreso con: FlashForge Creator Pro
Material: PLA
Descripción
I've spent about two months of constant printing to get this piece done in mixed FDM and resin. I'm currently getting ready to assemble & paint it this weekend and unfortunately there are quite a few flaws:
- pre-cut pieces are not all flat on the sides intended to join up. I can't imagine how this happened when you were cutting the model up, but for example look at "flat bottom 6 hull right"; why is the top of this piece curved? I had to fix various pieces like this with extra modeling material & glue.
- pieces 21 & 22 (the front railing) intersect with 11 & 12 where the beam ends waterside on each. I will be taking a dremel tool to them in an attempt to fix.
- the captain's cabin (part 17) with barrels overhanging also intersects with the ship below. I'll have to remove material from the barrels, or the ship, or leave a huge gap in the captain's doors or any the starboard side, all of which looks terrible
- a lot of these pieces will not fit in the average 3D printer and should have been cut into appropriate sizes, or at least the minimum required bed/plate stated. I printed the first four (1-4) hull pieces with an Elegoo Mars, which used the entire plate and cost like $12 in resin per piece. Okay, I'll save the resin for details like the barrels and mast, and print the rest on my Flashforge Creator Pro. Nope-- I still had to manual re-cut every third or fourth piece in blender and superglue them together.
If you're serious about fixing this, I would recommend starting with the original model and re-cutting it properly, at least with straight cuts, and preferably to reasonable sized pieces.
It's a shame I paid $15 for this on top of being a Patreon for several months, only to discover these many flaws over ~400 hours of printing and ~60 of manual labour correcting them myself both in the model pre-print and with cutting/glueing/modelling post-print.
I'm attaching a photo to prove I actually did print all this stuff, and must in good conscience recommend others avoid purchasing and attempting to print this model.
If it was me trying to sell this piece, I would hollow the whole piece (saving a ton of fill material), and cut it into sizes printable on a small, consumer resin 3D printer.
May others learn from my long journey.