Indeed. It will likely have glorious printed magazines. Very sparky. The first round of combat test magazines are being installed in my Invincible this coming weekend...
I hope you don't mind Tugboat, but I'm going to variate slightly from my original plans of four-ish years ago and 3DP the EQ, along with parts of the internals. If it goes well, I'll run her while I'm building up the Bismarck and the Alsace. I do want to say thank you for starting this build to help me get in the hobby.
That bothers me not at all I want to see pics of the work! That'll be really cool. I have some surprises along those lines but not with EdQ.
Color is pretty, but it matters not to the 3D printer. Most are capable of 2 colors, 3 at best, and most are not really 'spot on' for our ships. I print SS in grey in any case, to at least be the right general color before painting. (For the snarky ones who read 3D printing news, yes, I know that swanky color-mixing printers can be had. Just not for under my annual salary). BUT... It's looking good! can't wait to see how many pieces it takes
The Color's just for my own amusement while I design it. Asylum white doesn't inspire much creativity For the first test run, the SS will be grey, and I'm tempted to try Laywoo-D3 for the decking if it's durable enough.
Finished Version 1 of the ribs. Version 1.1 will include a water-channel and update any mistakes I made, such as having holes for the center shaft up to rib 17 (planning while tired). As such, any feedback on mistakes is always welcome I'm going to work on the SS after I get the frames closer to being ready. Got a 403 error on the full image, so here's a tiny image for your viewing pleasure. Here's a copy of the .skp file if anyone's interested: https://groups.google.com/group/uss...Q Gen 1 Frames.skp?part=0.1&authuser=0&view=1
My fault sorry. Misconfigured the nginx site file while blocking some spam referals stuff. Should work fine now though.
Looked a bit closer at your sketchup file last night. It looks like you have possibly either not mirrored your ribs or you have but have done so slightly off-vertical, as some of them look slightly off. It does look more like you sketched each rib whole though rather than half and mirroring. Might be something to look in to. If they're not mirrored left-right you'll have more fitment to do of your pieces. */end ramblings of a guy loaded up on decongestants...*
I think you're right about them being off. I checked with #10, since it has an outline on both sides, and it didn't mach up on the left side. I did mirror them, but they're off. I think whats caused it is that the rib lines aren't parallel with the x/y-axis, which I based many of my lines on. I'll go back this week and change them up, so that they'll be parallel with the midline in the plans, and mirror them again that way.
What I do with pics like that is after I import them, I rotate them before drawing the lines. If it's a tiny bit off, no one will notice. A tiny bit is like a couple tenths of a degree.
I finished the keels, along with the first and last three ribs. There was a slight height issue, so to re-leave my annoyance, I went ahead and added the old ribs to the hull, to see what'd she look like.
