Took delivery of a CREATIVITY, can’t remember the murder of the model number, but it was about $350 filament printer. And so far I’ve printed the front nose section of a T – 72 with RELIKT armor plates on it. It’s a bit odd, because it is full width of the front and top plate not the center section like what’s on a model between two fenders.
So from there, I decided to try building a Bailey bridge panel base section. Found some STK files on CULT 3-D. Thousand different projects some free downloads others cost a little bit of money but not too bad. Considering. You can get and download a full T90M fully loaded out and print it in a single run. Probably takes three days.
The Bailey bridge full scale 1/35 scale anyway so far.
I’ve got a fairly new FDM printer as well. I’ve been running a few test prints to nail down detail settings. I decided to put out some money for a finer nozzle to help with that, but haven’t tried it yet. Please post some pictures of what you are making with it, I’d like to see some results from other printers.
It looks like you are using a raft to help with adhesion, you may want to try using a glue stick instead, the bottom of your parts will turn out much cleaner. Just coat the build plate with a lay of glue from the glue stick in the area where your part will print.
Agreed it came out pretty cool. Once I saw the first bay come out with all those tree root supports that was when it changed my mind. The first run of the bridge I did with no support, and because it doesn’t have a third transom at the end of the bay, which a real bridge would have. The end of the runs just became spaghetti noodles. So that bay became my bay of surviving a nuclear blast, blew all the deck away, blew all the side panels away and left rods of plastic hanging out in the middle of nowhere.
