I went somewhat old school here however and got the hobby drill and a few wooden kebab skewers out in order to do some traditional pinning. I’m no expert in 3D modelling, so when cutting the model up I did this very simply with ‘flat cuts’ – I’m sure someone more skilled would have been able to create pegs and or plugs to align the model parts. Once printing was completely I needed a way of adequetly assembling the model.
Note I had by this stage fixed the two parts of each wing together. My Creality CR-10S FDM printer has a relatively large build area and even with the model split as I did I totalled the time at approximately 22 days!Īll the parts with the exception of the main fin. The printing on this took a VERY long time. How the cockpit section looked before removal from the print bed.
In the end I cut the model into seven parts – main hull, cockpit, fin and then each wing split in two.
Scaled against a Stormtrooper model from Skull Forge Studios – for info the build size of my printer is 300mm by 300mm I know I am bound to be asked at some point what the scaling was, but to be honest I cannot remember I’m afraid. From a scaling perspective I dropped a Stormtrooper model into the slicer alongside the cockpit to try and get an approximate scaling factor. I therefore spent some time ‘re-cutting’ the model in Meshmixer in order to come up with parts that would both scale up and fit on the print bed. The model as available for download would not fit on my print bed when scaled up to the size I wanted (and I wasn’t keen on the suggested way of splitting the file on Thingiverse). The issue here was that I wanted to do this Legion scale so from the off this was going to be a long project in terms of print time. Now I never had this, but I do distictly remember the TV ad (probably because this was one of the last things to be released in the original toy line).Īny how, I have wanted a centrepiece model for Star Wars gaming for a now while and some time ago came across a set of STL files on Thingiverse. In part this is because it is a clean classic design, but primarily it is because I have a soft spot for the original toy version. One of my favourites has always been the Imperial (Lambda Class) Shuttle, originally featured in Return of the Jedi.
There are many iconic spaceships in the Star Wars universe.
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