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Original post: 7\/3\/2019 <\/strong>
This is the IJN destroyer Akizuki<\/a>, created in 1\/450 scale. It was my first project designed for and printed with my new Ender 3 Pro<\/a> 3D printer.

The Akizuki class was one of the finest, IJN destroyer designs of WW2. The eight 100mm dual purpose main guns arranged in two super firing pairs fore and aft were of an excellent design. Amidships, the single quad torpedo launcher (with reloads) carried the devastating type 93 Long Lance torpedoes. Aft, Akizuki mounted depth charges, giving her anti submarine capabilities. This model, based on the World of Warships Akisuki<\/a>, portrays the vessel late in her carrier, with the aft fire director replaced by a triple 25mm AA gun with 3 more pairs of this AA mount: one flanking the tower bridge, a pair before and another after the torpedo launcher.

I’m extremely happy with the Ender 3 Pro’s performance compared to the DaVinci Mini’s: print layers are finer, better aligned and less noticeable and minor print defects are fewer. Its larger print area means bigger prints and fewer glued seams. Due to the heated bed the large hull sections have no noticeable warping and fit together smoothly. The overall quality increase combined with fewer, tight fitting hull seams, gives the models I’ve made with it a crisper, cleaner look.

As I mention in my USS Bogue<\/a> page:
“To be fair, the DaVinci Mini’s a good printer. It held my hand, no leveling and practically no assembly required. It’s unpacked and printing quickly and the software is simple and intuitive. I may never have tried 3D printing if I thought the learning curve and price were too steep, in short the DaVinci Mini was a gateway printer – and for me, well worth the money.”<\/em>

I’m pretty sure I’ll add rails and rigging at some point but IJN Akizuki is done for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3d printed ship models Original post: 7\/3\/2019 This is the IJN destroyer Akizuki, created in 1\/450 scale. It was my first project designed for and printed with my new Ender 3 Pro 3D printer. The Akizuki class was one of the finest, IJN destroyer designs of WW2. The eight 100mm dual purpose main guns arranged … Continue reading “IJN Akizuki 1\/450 scale, 3D printed with Ender 3 Pro”<\/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":137,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-434","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/434","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=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4481,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/434\/revisions\/4481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}