New Ship models

[unseelied]

Its a very cool design.  Its going to be trouble when you get to the point when you want to mold it as its got a lot of undercuts.

[schwager]

These are gorgeous!

Awesome design work, my friend 

[Vaaish]

Thanks guys, still a long way to go though.

Unseelied, I'm working closely with an expert caster and we don't think there will be any undue difficulty with casting the model. When he has a chance to look it over more closely I'm sure we'll find areas that need filling prior to printing it.

[Zarathustra Sucuine]

Those look awesome, I'm thinking the split prow could be nova cannon spinalmount The curved prow is interesting, will have to see it in the flesh to make a descision. Love the art, BFG is taking off in my club so these if priced nicely could form people's fleets.

[Samulus]

Really like the look of this design -  keep at it. Will surely get quite a few if they don't cost the earth! (unlike all the stuff on ebay!)

[Vaaish]

Thanks, guys!

Update time:
Right now the top is probably 95% complete. There might be more detail to add here and there and definitely some holes to fill before it gets cast. The prow also needs a bit of work, but I really need to get some weapons on the ship to make sure I don't need to widen the prow before that happens.

On the rear, I've added the final engine cluster, again might need some tweaks on the lower cluster as I get more detail added to make it look right. The underside is probably 60% complete at this point but I've got a lot more framework bits to do before it's in a place to show.

There's also been a lot of work done cleaning up geometry to make things easier to print.

[Gorlak]

Vaaish! These renders are superb! I finally get around to checking into the forum and find these have been modeled, really nice execution.

I have been kept busy at work, which has left little time for BFG much to my frustration, but the upside is that we have now setup our own 3D printer at work! I am one of two principle users of the machine (an Objet 30Pro) and one of the first things I wanted to print on it was some BFG ships.

I have not had time to model anything up yet to get it going, but I'd be more than happy to do some test prints if you'd like Vaaish? Discussing it with the team here, personal projects are fine and even encouraged on our new toy - I made sure of that!
The print quality we are seeing  is way ahead of the other systems we'd seen (SLS printers and certainly MakrBots and their like) and I think it will be ideal for BFG. Ultimately, I want to do a Vengeful Spirit and some organic Eldar models, but I digress. Any help I can be Vaaish, just let me know!

G

[Malika]

Can you print in HTM140?

[Gorlak]

Hi Malika,

Stratasys make a range of materials for use with their printers and we've gone for the highest in their range of 'desktop' class machines, the Objet 30 Pro, which can print in their 'High Temperature' material (RGD525). Looking at it, the Objet High Temperature material has a heat deflection temperature of 63–67 C (145-153 F) upon removal from the printer, which appears to be similar to HTM140, with a heat deflection temperature of 140°C.

We don't currently have any of that material, and I expect it would be about £200-300 for 2kg, which we might have to cover ourselves, but we would get to use it all then. Here are links for more info on the Objet 30 Pro and Stratasys' available materials

H

[Vaaish]

Hey Gorlak, I'd have to check, but we've already got a printer lined up and we're planning this as a full line of space craft models so I can't release the models into the wild.

It looks like you have a accuracy of .1mm on yours, is that the minimum wall size or the minimum detail size. I've got a couple of bits that hit the .1mm mark, but for the most part I've been keeping .5 and .25mm as my absolute minimums. From what I know of the printer we'll be printing this is a type of wax that then is chemically treated to remove the striations. Don't know much beyond that.

I hope to have some more updates on the ship today. Primary build is complete and I'm starting in on weapons.

[radu lykan]

missed this first time round, looking rather fantastic, depending on price i could see a mini fleet of these as a side project which would obviously turn into another entire sector fleet project, am taking it that battle ships and escorts are in the pipeline? grand cruisers and light cruisers? transports? er quick think of something else for them to make! 
hope it all goes to plan 

[Gorlak]

Hey Vaaish,

Completely understand, just wanted to give you options. The Objet prints to a resolution og 28 microns (0.028mm) or 16 microns (0.016mm) in the 'clear' material, which is pretty good. Minimum wall thickness is dependent on height and the geometry to be printed, but we've printed threaded detail on bolts of 0.3mm successfully. I suspect it could do more if it wasn't too high etc. The material is a liquid plastic that is cured with a UV lamp, and utilizes a separate support material (gel like) that is washed off after printing. Its impressive to watch, I have it running in the background as I type this printing a bracket detail for work purposes.

Can't wait to see more updates and progress! I hope to be able to contribute in the future if I can find time to commit to some CAD modelling.

G

[Vaaish]

Hmm... well I think that would work. I haven't pushed anything under .2mm and details like that tend to be less than 2mm tall.

Time for an update. I finished up the cannon decks yesterday. The net result was that the inset between weapons just wasn't working and got a pretty substantial redo. I'm hoping to finish up the landing decks by the end of the week. which hopefully will mean we'll be ready to start checking the model prior to printing.

[horizon]

Looks great. The weapon banks enhance the look. Cool.

[AndrewChristlieb]

Wow, its coming along nicely!