Thank you gents, for your kind words.
I always intended to make the hammocks exposed as that's how the ship appears in every painting and most photos.
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File comment: Same ship, different times
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The 1856 painting of the ship at Naples is the one I'm basing the model on.
I was considering making some hammocks in Skulpty, making a rubber mold from that, and casting them in resin. 3D printing not only gets the end result, but I 3D modeled them hollow to save resin, make them cure better, make them lighter, and the whole thing is cheaper in terms of resin and effort, plus I can easily alter the file if need be.
Here's all 200 hammocks mostly in groups of 9.
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File comment: A battalion of hammocks
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File comment: The hammocks are on "trays" of 9 hammocks each. All hollow to save resin/money and weight.
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File comment: About half the hammocks printed, with a quick coat of "canvas" (white with some tan) airbrushed on.
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Some of the bullseyes printed before got attached to the bobstays, and put back on the boat with temporary lanyards.
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File comment: Bobstays with 3D printed bullseyes
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I altered the oar model a little and took a shot at printing 45 at once. I didn't leave enough space between them and the supports got fused to the oars in a few places. It's been difficult to dig them out, but I'm managed 27 usable ones so far.
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File comment: The Borg Cube of oars
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I printed a new wheel to replace the too-fragile one I bought, but I liked the wooded pedestal I made for the old one better. So I sawed off the resin pedestals. Now the wheel will spin again, so I'm reverting back to plan A and connecting the ropes to the rudder servo so the wheel will spin when the rudder moves.
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File comment: Reverting back to the wheel's wooden pedestal
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The new skylight sashes and the wheel all got painted. The skylight sashes are glazed with a couple of microscope slides.
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File comment: Skylight and wheel got painted
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File comment: The skylight has a couple of microscope slides for glass and opens for access to the main power switch.
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The gun circles (rails on the deck for the pivot guns to slide on) were hand cut from sheet styrene and were too sloppy, too wide, and too thin. I modeled new ones using the 3D model of the gun as a reference for size and proportion. These got printed in one go, but unlike the oars, I left more space between things so the supports would stick to the parts.
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File comment: New gun circles were modeled using the 3D model for the guns as a reference to make them more accurate; and printed all in one go.
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I just replaced the LCD screen on the printed a week or two ago when it went bad. After that I found there was an upgrade for my printer available that would reduce print time by as much as half, so I ordered that. While printing trays of hammocks two at a time (all that will fit on the plate) the vat got a small leak and stuck to the LCD. Before I realized what was happening, I'd torn off the ribbon connector. The upgrade screen hasn't come in yet, so no printing's been happening for a few days.
In the meantime I've been working on the 3D model of the 2nd cutter (which stacks on the 1st cutter on the main hatch). If I can get that to work, I can alter the file to also make the two quarter-boats (same boat but a little smaller) and the double-ended stern boat (whale boat).