Printing Saturn V (one more)

[Gina]

48 minutes ago, Chriske said:

I'll gather all stl's and post them here.

Great - thank you.

Edited July 10, 2019 by Gina

[RT65CB-SWL]

Wow! 🚀

23 hours ago, Chriske said:

Done..!

I have been following this topic during the past few days/week with awe and I am very impressed. Can't wait to see it 'dressed up' with the self-adhesive labels, etc. 😜

[Chriske]

Better, not perfect.
It's only a few millimetres 'big' so, It'll do...
Need four of these.

Manoeuvrability of that upper stage is secured now with four of these thruster units...

[Stu]

32 minutes ago, Chriske said:

Manoeuvrability of that upper stage is secured now with four of these thruster units...

Phew! 🤣🤣

[Gina]

That looks pretty good for something so small, Chris.  Wonder if my printer will do as well...  😁

[Chriske]

20 minutes ago, Gina said:

That looks pretty good for something so small, Chris.  Wonder if my printer will do as well...  😁

I'm not at all happy with that result at all Gina, let that be clear, I said 'better' not perfect. That is spoken as a 3D-printing 'nerd'. A regular visitor(at our local observatory) will not judge it as I do of course.
I'm only happy with it because of the hight of this rocket. It will be 'out of reach(view)' to the visitors. Nobody will notice the so called 'bad' quality.

[Chriske]

Think I might have found how to make very sharp edges 'painting' a printed surface.

I used masking tape and at first I pressed a tick black marker very hard half on the tape, half on the printed surface. Surprise because even I very hard pushed the masking tape onto the printed surface, it gave me this result :

Second I tried another approach, instead of pushing both on the masking tape and the printed surface at the same time, I veeeery gently rubbed with the marker alongside the masking tape, and see what happens :

 

Both techniques side by side :

 

FYI,  the flaw in this part is :  I forgot to change settings in my slicer. So when a 0.7mm is set where 1.5mm should have used ...🙄

 

[Chriske]

Last week the manager of our observatory has for the first time seen that rocket I've just printed.
To make a long story short, I'm busy printing 3 more of these rockets. Two more parts to go and I'm done printing.
Probably today I'll start painting the black parts.
What I can't find is what they used for the lettering. I cant find what typeset 'USA' is written in.

[Dr_Ju_ju]

Apparently they used 2 fonts, NasaLisa (https://fontmeme.com/fonts/nasalization-font/) & Bambi-B (https://fontmeme.com/fonts/bambi-font/) which can be downloaded from the linked info....

[Chriske]

I think that NasaLiza is the modern look.

I was thinking using these

 

[daz]

Loving this thread! I think I'm a long way from being able to do this but it's very inspirational!

 

[Chriske]

My van is filled with rockets...😁
What would police think about my cargo if they discovered these in my van...

Nothing to fear, I could say, without a launcher...🤭

The fourth one I will paint later. Need to continue working on my bino now.

 

[Chriske]

Just installed these SaturnV rockets at our observatory.  Two were mounted on 500mm high console and others were mounted on a 1 meter high console. Standing 3 meters high, very impressive I might say.  Wonder what little children will think standing in front of these SaturnV rockets. I can imagine it will be most imposing.
Forgot to take a picture. I'll post one later.

[upahill]

Amazing thread and models, I just started this print and am overwhelmed by the effort you have gone through!

[Chriske]

Thank you...

The manager of our observatory was very happy with these rockets... and challenged me to print the Hubble space telescope. 1/10 scale...!...😳
Needles to say I said yes.
The only problem is I don't have a printer that can handle this size...  Diameter of Hubble is 4.2 meter...🤔

[upahill]

Colab with @Gina on the giant printer? Look forward to seeing it when you do will be impressive.

 

[Gina]

My Giant printer is in the upgrade process but shelved for the time being while I get some higher priority projects done.  Next incarnation should have a printing volume of 500mm x 500mm x 800mm but it may not quite reach this.

[Chriske]

1 hour ago, upahill said:

Colab with @Gina on the giant printer? Look forward to seeing it when you do will be impressive.

Well, lets say Gina and I have about the same interests about printer-stuff, particularly about size...😁

[Chriske]

As promise, one last picture.
Four of these have been installed at our observatory.

Edited September 16, 2019 by Chriske

[Chriske]

One very last picture, tells how enormous these rockets were.
This (printed) little astronaut will be posted near these four rockets.
We all now how big these StaturnV rockets were, but when I see that little guy(31mm high), standing beside one of these 2 meter high rockets...it's mind-boggling...!

Should I paint it..? Is there überhaupt something to paint, I think it's all white. Have to look it up.

[Chriske]

The manager of our observatory asked me to make an even bigger SaturnV rocket.
This next (last?) one will be 3.6meter high, Crawler and launching platform included.
Adding the umbilical tower on the launching platform the complete structure will be almost 4 meter high.
For this job I need to build a bigger printer first.
Deadline mid-Sept 2020.

Some smaller parts I'm already printing now, like the Caterpillar shoes for the Crawler. I need about 450(!) of these.

[Gina]

Quite amazing!! 😮

[Chriske]

Still drawing LUT, start printing soon.

[Chriske]

A few smaller corrections have been made and now LUT is added the hight of the complete project will be just over 4 meter.

[Chriske]

My pal Michel is busy drawing all connections between the corridors and SaturnV.
This is corridor'1' , Eight more to go. All these connection differ a bit.