Thursday, January 2, 2020

Venture into 3d Print for 6mm

For Christmas, my wonderful wife gave me a new 3d Printer.  The one I have is the Ender 3 Pro printer.  We bought it directly from Creality because they had a great Christmas sale. Creality website.  It comes unassembled and the assembly is pretty straight forward, but it does take a little time.  The only challenging part was leveling the printing tray.  It takes a little while, and makes a big difference because if it isn't leveled correctly then the print tends to not stay on the bed. 

I had a few not great prints at the beginning, and finally found out that I didn't have the belt tight enough, so I tightened that and started getting better results. 

With the standard .4mm print head I was able to get these following items.  They are 6mm scale turbolaser turrets.  The pictures are pretty zoomed in so that you can see the print lines, but in person they are quite small.

These haven't been primed or painted yet.  They are from Thingverse.  Link

It comes in 3 parts, the base, the turret and the guns.





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