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Printing a crane, the rear stack and a lot of small parts, my parts box is starting to be full...

 

The crane hook is well printed with its very thin chain, it's very fragile. 

 

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Small advances on Deck 2 and 3, gluing of the many elements of Deck 2 that are directly under Deck 3. 

 

The decks are still not glued together.

 

The paint has been applied except for the back of deck 3 which will be grey H 96 like the other decks in grey.

 

I was wondering if the red linoleum deck was kept until 1940 through the various remodels of the building?

 

I'm waiting to glue the lower crown holding the cranes, I'll do it once the decks are glued so they are perfectly straight. 

 

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Tks Guys! 

 

We are in the real world of battleships now! 😂

 

I hadn't taken a little break, but I worked on some details including the masts.

 

Deck 3 is glued tonight. I'm doing the tricky connections at the front, not to damage anything. Tomorrow I will touch up the gray deck.

 

I printed the rudder and added rivets, many rivets. Apparently it was mounted like this, if we follow the plan.

 

I'm quite satisfied with the masts and yards, I had to make them hollow and hollow for the plastic one, a piano wire is inserted to stiffen, when it's not possible, I simply put piano wire. It remains to put the steel cables, in stretched plastic.

 

I found some very thin mesh on Ali express to make the anti-torpedo net that is rolled along the hull, I'll probably wrap it a turn or two around a thin copper wire, so I can shape it along the edge. 

 

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Some more pictures:

 

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Tape of a mouth of cannon, on the right one of the battleship Provence, sistersip of the Bretagne (It was recovered by divers in the port of Toulon after the scuttling of the French fleet, it is said. Not 340 mm ! ).

 

"Semper paratus", "Always ready".

 

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Battleship Provence.

 

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On the left, one of the EE Vauquelin D628 on which I did my military service during one year in 1980.

 

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On 05/08/2022 at 23:52, Iceman 29 said:

 

It is for my part to draw and print this model with the method used for this one: :)

 

 

Amazing work so far !!! I'm sorry if I missed it, I have to admit, I didn't read every post, but I wonder, once you finish it, and its all done, would you consider a production? I understand that now this is one of the kind, but since you will have all 3D models, it would be a shame (maybe after some time), that it stays only one.... Maybe scale it down to 350th scale?

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@Iceman 29 

Beautiful work!!! I didn't think you'll decide to 3D print the entire model. Personally, I'm always very afraid of the warping of the elements over time and possibility of cracks in the connaction points. I prefer making large parts of the model including hull from paper and the rest of the details printing in 3D, although I am fascinated of your work. The only thing I would do is to switch on AA in slicer, overall great job.

Cheers,

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If you have any tested ways of post-processing after 3D printing to avoid distortion of the elements, it would be great.

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On 12/02/2023 at 18:51, wieslaw_ said:

@Iceman 29 

Beautiful work!!! I didn't think you'll decide to 3D print the entire model. Personally, I'm always very afraid of the warping of the elements over time and possibility of cracks in the connection points. I prefer making large parts of the model including hull from paper and the rest of the details printing in 3D, although I am fascinated of your work. The only thing I would do is to switch on AA in slicer, overall great job.

Cheers,

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If you have any tested ways of post-processing after 3D printing to avoid distortion of the elements, it would be great.

 

Tks. 

For my part, I UV the parts for a very short time, just so they don't stick to my finger, about 1 minute depending on the part. Then I protect them from the sun until they are painted.
Otherwise exposed too much to UV, the piece gets stressed. It is better to keep a certain flexibility. After the models do not like the sun in general.

For the moment no problems for my first models for two years, no cracks, but the future can always hold surprises with a new technology.

 

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Amazing work so far !!! I'm sorry if I missed it, I have to admit, I didn't read every post, but I wonder, once you finish it, and its all done, would you consider a production? I understand that now this is one of the kind, but since you will have all 3D models, it would be a shame (maybe after some time), that it stays only one.... Maybe scale it down to 350th scale?

 

Tks!

No production is planned.

At 1/350, a large part of the ship would have to be redesigned.

A possible 1940 version at 1/200 is possible afterwards, depending on my motivation.

 

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I lightened the deck color.

 

Painting and gluing of some accessories on the rear deck, barbettes. Stairs, PE railings, etc.. It's not finished, there's still more to come.

 

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I've not been able to see any pics posted for the last 2 weeks or so. If I tap on the blank line in your post I just get taken to a post image page to post my own images. 

 

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Iceman,

 

I'm late to this thread but was wondering if you own your own 3D printer and what material your beautiful model is printed in. I am scratch building a 1/192 Bouvet with many 3D printed parts, none of my parts even if printed in "fine detail plastic" are as smooth. I have a commercial company do the printing.

 

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2 hours ago, Gordon Brownell said:

Iceman,

 

I'm late to this thread but was wondering if you own your own 3D printer and what material your beautiful model is printed in. I am scratch building a 1/192 Bouvet with many 3D printed parts, none of my parts even if printed in "fine detail plastic" are as smooth. I have a commercial company do the printing.

 

Gord

 

Beautiful project that the battleship Bouvet! 

 

Yes I use my own printers.

 

I have 4 in fact. 

 

But I mainly use my 2 Anycubic Mono X 4K LCD monochrome resin printers which are after a year a bit outdated now ( we switched to 8K now ) 

 

But it does the job very well as you can see.

 

I have an Anycubic Ultra (DLP) for small parts. The version 2 will come out soon even more precise. 


And another small printer Phrozen Mini 4K.

 

The new Elegoo Saturn 2 - 8K is certainly the best on the low-coast market right now. It combines print size and precision.

 

For a ship of this size you need at least this kind of printer. Printed in several trunks.

 

https://www.elegoo.com/en-fr/collections/frontpage/products/elegoo-saturn-2-8k-10-inches-mono-lcd-3d-printer

 

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