Building a Supercar - Work in Progress 3, printed out.

in #cars6 years ago (edited)

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Khufu was kind enough to print this out for me, see post, this was a spur of the moment thing and I never meant to 3D print it, so it was a little thin around the windows, but an awesome learning experience as now I know what works, and to actually get my hands on a print of the car is unbelievable.

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I had to decide between high build primer and spray putty, the print was fairly rough out of the printer and had a few holes to fill so I thought spray putty would be the way to go.

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I ended up doing 5 coats of the putty sanding in-between each coat and it came out ok, but I probably should have sanded the ridges down more to start with but its important to make mistakes or you don’t learn.

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The wheels are just stand ins for the moment until I can get new ones printed.

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This is the first part I have designed for the purpose of 3D printing, I still have a little bit to go on the tyre profile to make it look 100, I just did this by eye I need to measure the gaps and all that for the next one and the side walls need a little better profile, but it will do for this model.

It took forever to model (3 Days) as my little laptop can’t keep up with the pace, I have to draw a line wait for a bit and draw another line, if I need to make a slight change wait a little bit more, if you have ever done anything in 3D you will know how long it takes when you have a normal computer, this is getting a little frustrating with the lag times.

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These wheels are from the 2010 lotus concept cars, I just feel completely in love with them so hopefully I can get them on to the finished product.

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See my other posts about it

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Looking good mate!

Nice one and those 3d printers are cool what they can do.

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You were quick on that ! Yeah its an awesome feeling to be able to hold your own creation in your hand. Thanks!

Yes I think it would be pretty cool.

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