Mehve 2 3D printed model
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 10:23 pm
Hi,
This is a modified version of the Mehve from the movie 'Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'. It is 1/18th scale fits a Lego Belleville figure, has retracting landing skids, and movable flaps. It was inspired by my daughter, who after seeing the movie really wanted a toy version of the Mehve.
I CADded this up in a couple of days and printed the parts within a week. I began the long process of priming the printed surface and joining the various sections together. This process was made more difficult because I had made an error when splitting the sections to be printed. By printing the wings at a different orientation then the fuselage resulted in 1mm tolerance build up across the fuselage sections at the wing join. This embarrassing error was fixed by some heavy sanding between the 4 fuselage sections. Furthermore I did not calibrate my printing parameters correctly when changing my plastic stock in the midst of printing the 3 wing sections. This calibration error made fitting the wing sections together a challenge and required a good amount of puttying to smooth the section transitions.
Link to the gallery:
https://flic.kr/s/aHskuSy1tv
Printing the wing tips with new plastic stock (pardon the low resolution):
https://flic.kr/p/EvfTJ5
Sanded and primed, fit test for the wing tips and figure:
https://flic.kr/p/Fk3QLw
Painted… Note messy work table.
https://flic.kr/p/J33WkM
Ready to play:
https://flic.kr/p/KnJq9Z
Landed:
https://flic.kr/p/KnJhxB
I am thinking of redesigning it to be easier to assemble with less sanding and puttying...
Let me know what you think.
Thank you for looking!
Brent
This is a modified version of the Mehve from the movie 'Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'. It is 1/18th scale fits a Lego Belleville figure, has retracting landing skids, and movable flaps. It was inspired by my daughter, who after seeing the movie really wanted a toy version of the Mehve.
I CADded this up in a couple of days and printed the parts within a week. I began the long process of priming the printed surface and joining the various sections together. This process was made more difficult because I had made an error when splitting the sections to be printed. By printing the wings at a different orientation then the fuselage resulted in 1mm tolerance build up across the fuselage sections at the wing join. This embarrassing error was fixed by some heavy sanding between the 4 fuselage sections. Furthermore I did not calibrate my printing parameters correctly when changing my plastic stock in the midst of printing the 3 wing sections. This calibration error made fitting the wing sections together a challenge and required a good amount of puttying to smooth the section transitions.
Link to the gallery:
https://flic.kr/s/aHskuSy1tv
Printing the wing tips with new plastic stock (pardon the low resolution):
https://flic.kr/p/EvfTJ5
Sanded and primed, fit test for the wing tips and figure:
https://flic.kr/p/Fk3QLw
Painted… Note messy work table.
https://flic.kr/p/J33WkM
Ready to play:
https://flic.kr/p/KnJq9Z
Landed:
https://flic.kr/p/KnJhxB
I am thinking of redesigning it to be easier to assemble with less sanding and puttying...
Let me know what you think.
Thank you for looking!
Brent