Monthly Archives: February 2021

SONY DSC

Now that i am coming to the point where i need to start adding stuff that cannot be canged anymore I needed to lightproof the hull and superstructure.  Good oldfashioned aluminum duct tape works best imo. It also helps keep the heat of the leds away from the 3dprinted stuff even though the specific abs […]

SONY DSC

Time to show you the work on the turrets so far.  I made several designs , some more compact, some more battleship style but all still pretty basic as i needed to figure out first how to make it all move! The ship will have a grand total of 24 Laser turrets meaning 48 servo’s […]

Now to start the work on the stand. The idea was to be able to picth and jaw the ship. Or dip to the left and to the fron and then to the right. While this was a awesome idea it posed a lot of problems.  How to create a mechanism to allow that motion.  […]

As always its starts with the 3d design. I needed a structure to be able to move around blocks of greebles and the side decks of the superstructure. After several revisions i came to this design that also allows me to easily route fiberoptic cable (well pmma actually) for the lighting plan. I can use […]

  Aluminum work update 2 – Superstructure Finally the last parts of the aluminum work for the hull came in and I could put my trusted bender bench to work. This structure will provide a good seperation between the plastics of the detailing and the PC cabin. I added bend holes to the laser design […]