{"id":1820,"date":"2020-05-16T22:34:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T22:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/?page_id=1820"},"modified":"2024-06-17T11:37:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T15:37:41","slug":"tiger-ii-porsche-turret-1-35-scale-ender-3-pro-printed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/tiger-ii-porsche-turret-1-35-scale-ender-3-pro-printed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger II with ‘Porsche’ turret, 1\/35 scale, Ender 3 Pro printed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

3d printed tank models<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5\/19\/2020 Update<\/strong>
Done! That didn’t take too long. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please forgive the avalanche of pictures but I’m quite happy with how my German Tiger II came out. Of course, like every 3D printed project there are design elements I wish I had done differently and would want to change before I built this again. Some of the paint job and weathering isn’t 100% either but I don’t want to over do it as a feel I did on the Panther. So at least for now I’m calling her done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m quite happy with my Ender 3 pro’s printing at this scale and this project produced some good print examples showing the Ender’s capabilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5\/16\/2020 Original post<\/strong>
Another work in progress. I had this Tiger II design in the works since I started thinking of 3D printing WW2 armor but the ease of creating the Panther and refurbishing the Sherman got in the way. Then I reverted back to 1\/450 scale warships with USS Texas and IJN Nagato. When those projects stalled waiting for my new Creality LD-002r SLA resin printer to be able to make the small guns and such (I’m waiting on the resin) I switched back to the Tiger finishing the needed design work then finally printing my 1\/35 scale Tiger II. I chose to go with the so called ‘Porsche’ style turret because I feel it’s sleekness emphasizes just how advanced these tanks were for there time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also used TPU flexible filament for the first time to create the treads, I’m reasonably happy with how it worked out. TPU is a bit more finicky to work with than PLA. It was hard get the printed treads off the build mat, though that may be because I let it completely cool. in any event, the treads were on there good. I would have easily ripped them apart had I just pulled them off, TPU is quite flexible when printed thin but also rather weak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5\/30\/2020 Note on TPU<\/strong>
I wanted to add more information to this section on printing with TPU on the Ender 3 Pro. I looked briefly online, couldn’t find anything too useful, so I kind’a wung it. I ended up buying TECBEARS TPU from Amozon<\/a> based mostly on price, good reviews and it being 1.75mm. I’d read online that TPU requires a higher extrusion temperature than PLA so before printing my treads with TPU, I tried upping the extruder temp on my Ender – Don’t do that! Instead in Cura set the material selector to TPU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are a couple other manufacturers that had TPU as an option (oddly it’s not available under Generic), I went with Velleman – because I liked the name. OK, maybe not a great reason but it did produce good results! After the tread design was sliced and saved with the TPU material selected, my Ender 3 Pro automatically heated to the right temps for both bed (40c) and extruder (220c) when the tread design was selected for printing. Only one more tip, don’t forget to change your Cura material selection back to PLA before slicing the next object that will use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that the treads are in place and the body primed I’ll lay down the base colors then add the wheel skirts. Once that’s done I’ll start the Finnish work, small details and weathering. Hopefully she’ll be done shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The large hull section shown bellow, still on the Ender’s bed, is the tallest object I’ve printed yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Update: June 17, 2024<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

This Tiger II was one of my early Blender designs and was made to be printed on the FDM Ender 3 Pro 3D printer. As such I was very happy with it and the printed results. At least until I got my first resin printer… I then saw the detail levels I could now add as demonstrated by my next armor project: M26 Pershing<\/a>. I then wanted to update this model to be on an equal level. A Blender render of the changes is below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3d printed tank models 5\/19\/2020 UpdateDone! That didn’t take too long. Please forgive the avalanche of pictures but I’m quite happy with how my German Tiger II came out. Of course, like every 3D printed project there are design elements I wish I had done differently and would want to change before I built this … Continue reading “Tiger II with ‘Porsche’ turret, 1\/35 scale, Ender 3 Pro printed”<\/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":395,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1820","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1820","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=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5022,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1820\/revisions\/5022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}