Get Your “Benchys” Out – Tabletop 3D Printing Ep 5
September 15, 2017 by warzan
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OK, the next project is to buy a bunch of the 1/144 scale Bandai Star Wars kits and then 3-D print upscaled X-Wing Miniatures game bases and movement tokens. That way, you can have a larger scale Star Wars battle with the Falcon, Slave 1, AT-ATs, AT-STs, snow speeders, TIEs, Y-Wings, ect.
Fantasies aside, I’m hoping that Benchy comes out well and that the glass bed mod helps make a difference.
@warzan, if you go for finer detail, most of the time you need to decrease the printspeed and travelspeed by 30%, so from current 60 to 45. futher more, benchy can be printed without supports, that is part of test, mostly printer will print with overhang of 20 degree, be carefull when scaling up the overhang can be to big! Happy weekend all at the bootcamp, I gone look if i can find my benchy, but i think it is giving to neigbour kids. whenn i have time i print a new one, but i am with lots of cool… Read more »
Now I know what to print this weekend 😉 I will try to do so without support, as I agree this should be part of the test. According the roof overhang: If you print not too slow, even an 90 degree overhang is possible if there are anchor points on both sides and not too far apart
I will run this again in the morning without supports 🙂
Printing a Benchy myself ….. see how it goes I would support some parts generally as it’s outside what’s considered doable …. But will see what the old girl can do
Looking forward to seeing the result of this.
Benchy!? That’s steam boat willie’s.. boat.