Colin gives us an update on his 3D Printing efforts.
I decided needed a coastal fort to accompany the Lepanto 3D printed galleys. Inspiration was this Turkish fort in Paphos, Cyprus which we visited a few years back.
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So I put a design together in Tinkercad. This took about half an hour.
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Here’s the painted first model I produced.
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I then updated the design with the extension of a rooftop building and added inserts for doorways and windows which will make the painting easier.
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Took just over 4 hours to print and used 30g of PLA which means it costs about 60p to produce.
I plan to make it my first upload to thingiverse.com and see if it attracts any interest.
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