barryashcroft
New Member
Hi all!
I've been thinking about my next project and I want to build a studio scale Millennium Falcon but I want to approach it from perhaps(?) a different angle. My thoughts are to build the model virtually and then 3d print it... but rather than taking a complete model and breaking it up into sections that can be 3d printed I want to model all the greeblies, 3d print those and then construct the physical model by hand. I also understand that there will be people who do not want the tedious nature of combining all the greeblies by hand so there will be versions where multipart components are pre-built.
Is this something that has been attempted and completed before? I have done some research into this and found some threads but I am sure that there will be something that I have missed. The last thing I want to do is 'reinvent the wheel'
The project itself will obviously be a labour of love and it will be something I want to share. Assuming I proceed I'll create a build log and associated content but I want to make the files themselves available. I'll open source the project on a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA basis.
Thoughts please?
I've been thinking about my next project and I want to build a studio scale Millennium Falcon but I want to approach it from perhaps(?) a different angle. My thoughts are to build the model virtually and then 3d print it... but rather than taking a complete model and breaking it up into sections that can be 3d printed I want to model all the greeblies, 3d print those and then construct the physical model by hand. I also understand that there will be people who do not want the tedious nature of combining all the greeblies by hand so there will be versions where multipart components are pre-built.
Is this something that has been attempted and completed before? I have done some research into this and found some threads but I am sure that there will be something that I have missed. The last thing I want to do is 'reinvent the wheel'
The project itself will obviously be a labour of love and it will be something I want to share. Assuming I proceed I'll create a build log and associated content but I want to make the files themselves available. I'll open source the project on a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA basis.
Thoughts please?