Strategic Design

[Zeich]

posted on May 5th, 2011, 8:28 pm

Last edited by Zeich on May 5th, 2011, 10:28 pm, edited 4 times in total.

Hey everyone,

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posted on May 5th, 2011, 8:38 pm

Very pretty! That's a pretty neat service; how'd you learn the nacelles were so fragile?

posted on May 5th, 2011, 8:45 pm

im not gonna lie ive got a thing for miniture spaceship models (yes even at 25, ive got a box of them, I find their good for the imagination and focus the brain lol)

Can't wait until 3d resin printing  become more mainstream.


Thanks for documenting the model process, Its extremely interesting

posted on May 5th, 2011, 8:47 pm

yeah zeich, we like to hear stuff that gives us an insight into how we get stuff.

posted on May 5th, 2011, 11:13 pm

A few years back I had access to a 3D printer which produced similar magic to those models, for free. I always wanted to use the wax resin printer though . Solid resin instead of fragile sandstone-esque stuff. Unfortunately it was about 10x more expensive.

I like this ship a lot. I always request one now, just because of the way it looks

posted on May 5th, 2011, 11:15 pm

ooh, thats awesome!!!  Thanks Zeich, one of those shots ypu put up is going to my desktop.

posted on May 5th, 2011, 11:27 pm

So, are you going to paint that model?

posted on May 6th, 2011, 12:47 am

Thats really cool looking thanks zeich. P.S. you should paint the model sometime

posted on May 6th, 2011, 12:56 am

Zeich, when are you going to paint that model??!!!??!!   Everyone else was asking.

Thanks again for all your hard work.  This stuff is really cool to see.

posted on May 6th, 2011, 2:02 am

Hehe, I am not sure I am going to paint it.  The sandstone would require a primer to paint it and I don't think that I am that great of a painter.  I would not want to ruin it.  If I do paint it, I will keep you up to date. 

The website I used has a wide variety of materials, including ones that actually let you print in color.  However each material has it's own minimum thickness and strength.  In order to print my Teutoburg in color it would require for me to print the model about 3 times larger.  The pylons on the current version that is printed are .7 mm thick, the thinnest it could be.  So since the nacells are solid, the pylons are pretty weak to support them. 

posted on May 6th, 2011, 2:31 am

.7 mm?!?!?  Surely you mean cm?

posted on May 6th, 2011, 2:39 am

Yes, you are right, I meant .7 cm. 

posted on May 6th, 2011, 9:24 am

I just thaught about a titanium model... .7mm and still not broken

posted on May 6th, 2011, 10:19 am

Love this one. 

posted on May 6th, 2011, 12:18 pm

Loving the Teutoburg-class!!!