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Dreadnought of the Gray Knights model Castraferrum printed on a 3d printer
Weight: 3 kg
Dimensions: 330 * 315 mm All the work lasted 1.5 months on long winter evenings
sorry for my English
Ps hello from Russia
Want to include the parts as well or did you just add extra planes and make it as one big chunk? Did you factor in shrinkage in the print? I'm using solidworks myself and I have a few stl files I just have been worried about the shrinkage factor of the plastics so I haven't printed anything
TheBoy wrote: Want to include the parts as well or did you just add extra planes and make it as one big chunk? Did you factor in shrinkage in the print? I'm using solidworks myself and I have a few stl files I just have been worried about the shrinkage factor of the plastics so I haven't printed anything
I divided large parts into small pieces printed then glued and mashed the seams. At the expense of thermal shrinkage, if you print PLA plastic, it will be minimal. I printed small decals of ABS plastic because it is easier to process
Prometheum5 wrote: Really terrific work! I've been debating making a large scale Dreadnought toy myself for a while. Those big chunky shapes are perfect for 3D printing.
The next work I'll do is a defiler (crab) of about the same scale so that the dreadnought is bored
or did you just add extra planes and make it as one big chunk? Did you factor in shrinkage in the print? I'm using solidworks myself and I have a few stl files I just have been worried about the shrinkage factor of the plastics so I haven't printed anything
