Hello!
About a decade ago I used to make models but life and other things got in the way and I forgot about the hobby. I decided to come back with a little bit of a bang and have decided to scratch build a 1/72 IJN Agano, as she appeared in November 1943, during the Battle for Empress Bay. My goal for this project is for it to be more of a
learning project, where I'll relearn old skills and gather new ones. Additionally I plan to make other ships afterwards, so I decided to do an interesting, but not tooo interesting ship.
Since the last time I made models, I now very experienced in 3D CAD, and have a newly acquired 3D printer (Creality CR-10S Pro). So, I'm going to print it....
3D printing is great because any parts can be remade, edited, and for me, easier (just click around on a PC, and then shoot to a printer). I would not be doing this scale of a project if it would have to be done totally by hand (hull forms, fiberglass, etc).
I started printing April 6th 2020, and so far have an entire hull, and half of the decking complete. Forward Superstructure is already modeled in CAD, and working on the funnel.
First half of the ship lined up on my table
Experimenting with printing out deck anti-slip surface:
Whole ship:
Anyways I will keep this thread updated, and hopefully this wont boat won't take too long