{"id":1767,"date":"2020-05-03T20:35:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T20:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/?page_id=1767"},"modified":"2023-09-18T08:48:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:48:19","slug":"uss-texas-battleship-ender-3-pro-3d-printed-in-1-450-scale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/uss-texas-battleship-ender-3-pro-3d-printed-in-1-450-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"USS Texas Battleship, Ender 3 Pro 3D printed in 1\/450 scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n
\"Close<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Finished_USS_Texas_3D_printed_Ender_3_pro_LD-002r\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Finished_USS_Texas_3D_printed_Ender_3_pro_LD-002r\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Finished_USS_Texas_3D_printed_Ender_3_pro_LD-002r\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Finished_USS_Texas_3D_printed_Ender_3_pro_LD-002r\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Finished_USS_Texas_3D_printed_Ender_3_pro_LD-002r\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Finished_USS_Texas_3D_printed_Ender_3_pro_LD-002r\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Finished_USS_Texas_3D_printed_Ender_3_pro_LD-002r\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Finished_USS_Texas_3D_printed_Ender_3_pro_LD-002r\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Finished_USS_Texas_3D_printed_Ender_3_pro_LD-002r\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Finished_USS_Texas_3D_printed_Ender_3_pro_LD-002r\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Finished_USS_Texas_3D_printed_Ender_3_pro_LD-002r\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Finished_USS_Texas_3D_printed_Ender_3_pro_LD-002r\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Finished_USS_Texas_3D_printed_Ender_3_pro_LD-002r\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Update: 7\/27\/2020<\/strong>
My USS Texas project is finished, for now anyway. I ended up painting her as she currently looks in measure 21: Navy blue on all vertical (and non deck) surfaces and deck blue on all decks. I’m very happy with the result and think she’s my best looking 3D printed ship model to date. Using my new Creality LD-002r LCD printer on the smaller parts worked great. I ended up replacing the Ender 3 Pro printed cranes with LD-002r printed replacements as the detail was just so much better on the resin printed parts. Also printed with the LD-002r were the small boats and all AA guns: Quad Bofors, 3 inch and 20mm AA. Everything else was created with the Ender 3 Pro. I’m also very happy with quartering the ship hull for printing the way I did, it has the pleasing effect of leaving no stepping marks on the deck as deck elevation changes and as a bonus the fine print lines look quite a bit like wooden planks. Why I didn’t try this sooner I’ll never know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I mention in an LD-002r post<\/a>, I’m still planning on making a Texas V2<\/a> that uses even more LD-002r parts but it may take a while to rework all the hull elements. For now this Texas is the pride of my 3d printed fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
\"USS<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"USS<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"USS<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Parts<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Parts<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Parts<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Parts<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Assembled<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Original post: 5\/3\/2020 <\/strong>
Texas is a work in progress. I started her a couple weeks before my foray into armored vehicles And while working on assembling her I started printing my latest ship design IJN Nagato<\/a>. On Texas I stumbled once again on getting decent looking small arms to print, the 40mm quad Bofors and the 3 inch and 20mm Oerlikon AA guns. I tried all sorts of different approaches with marginal success. Looked on line for inspiration and found it in the form of a new printer! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ended up buying the new Creality LD-002r UV resin LED 3D printer<\/a> (the link will bring you to https:\/\/www.creality3d.shop which is where I ordered mine). It hasn’t arrived yet but with this change of events I decided to hold off on the fine details for both ships until I can give the LD-002r a chance. This could be a game changer for me as I’ve had to toil with the fine parts on my FDM printers from day one. The Ender 3 Pro with it’s large build area is amazing on the larger hull pieces and even the main guns of my 1\/450 scale warship models but has struggled on finer details at that scale. Using the LD-002r for them could be the answer. I was leery at first to order from www.creality3d.shop as they seem to be posing as the official Creality retail store (and they are not) but after a fairly length search on line for bad news the only real problem they seem to have is with service – and with 3D printing frankly I expect that… There were no claims of “I never got my printer” or “it’s a scam site”, etc. Some gripes about long shipping times (I can vouch for that) and of things breaking (hope not!) but at their price point I can wait and was willing to take a bit of a chance… I’ll keep you posted.

So for now my Texas and Nagato projects are mothballed, I do like them so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Update: 10\/11\/2020<\/strong>
I received my LD-002r printer shortly after posting this and it has performed perfectly for months now. You’d be hard pressed to click a recent link on this site and not read about it <\/em>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Update: 1\/8\/202<\/strong><\/em>2
I just noticed that I never included a link to my improved TX2 on this page.
Everything but the hull was printed with a Creality LD-002r resin printer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
\"LD\"<\/a><\/figure>\n
USS Texas V2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: 7\/27\/2020My USS Texas project is finished, for now anyway. I ended up painting her as she currently looks in measure 21: Navy blue on all vertical (and non deck) surfaces and deck blue on all decks. I’m very happy with the result and think she’s my best looking 3D printed ship model to date. … Continue reading “USS Texas Battleship, Ender 3 Pro 3D printed in 1\/450 scale”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","iawp_total_views":1063,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1767","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4456,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1767\/revisions\/4456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}