{"id":999,"date":"2020-02-17T21:50:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T21:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/?page_id=999"},"modified":"2023-09-18T20:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T00:23:15","slug":"ijn-sendai","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/ijn-sendai\/","title":{"rendered":"IJN Sendai, 3D printed with an XYZ DaVinci Mini"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Original Post: 5\/28\/2018 <\/strong>
This is the Imperial Japanese Navy Light Cruiser Sendai<\/a>

She was my third try at 3D printing a WW2 warship and my most ambitious 3D printing project yet. Size wise she’s the longest, the full hull at 1\/450 scale just fits in XYZmaker’s grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gluing the larger hull pieces was giving me a heck of a time until I thought of the Mummy Wrap approach (below). This worked great and I’ve since used it on two smaller ships: Allen M. Sumner V2<\/a> & Yugumo V2<\/a>. The rubber bands are no-longer needed, now I just use string, wrapping it tighter and tighter on each wrap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also took advantage of lessons learned on this project, using metal rods\/wire of various thicknesses for guns, masts, prop shafts and AA barrels. I built as much onto the hull pieces as possible and avoided printing small details if they could be better scratch built. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two pieces pushed the printer to its limits, the float plane catapult and crane boom – I may replace the boom as I may have pushed XYZ DaVinci a bit too far on that piece!

In an earlier post on my original Allen M. Sumner<\/a> build I asked what people thought of the PE rails and rigging on these printed models. I still kind of like it and still kind’a don’t… On this project and on the V2 Sumner & V2 Yugumo I decided to forgo the extra details – at least for now.

All in all this is my favorite 3D printing project to date and Sendai is a great addition to my 1\/450 Japanese fleet.

Update: 7\/7\/2018 <\/strong>
Sendai may still be my favorite but she is no longer the largest or most ambitious of my 3D projects. That title now belongs to: USS Omaha<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3d printed ship models Original Post: 5\/28\/2018 This is the Imperial Japanese Navy Light Cruiser Sendai She was my third try at 3D printing a WW2 warship and my most ambitious 3D printing project yet. Size wise she’s the longest, the full hull at 1\/450 scale just fits in XYZmaker’s grid. The printed parts and … Continue reading “IJN Sendai, 3D printed with an XYZ DaVinci Mini”<\/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":124,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-999","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/999","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=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4478,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/999\/revisions\/4478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}