Challenges in printing the body

[ccobra]

Some of the challenges that I've discovered is trying to print the body, clean it up, and assemble. This is what I've found to work sometimes. Using a familiar body I printed out three times before I was able to clean out the support material without needed to reconstruct. What I ended up with was to print the body upside down and at a 45 degree angle (315 or -135 degrees on CURA).

It wasn't a perfect cleanup for I broke off the wiper blade which I'll have to fix later. Anyway I used the dremel with the cutter blade and wheel, duck bill pliers, needle nose pliers, end cutters, and an o-ring pick.


After sanding down the body a little, out came the XTC-3D epoxy and used 6 grams to the body and now after it cures I'll sand it down and fill in the holes.

[williamg]

nice work
I did the nova in primer, then a coat of c/a glue to fill the pores. I need to sand it next.

[chappyman66]

It does seem like some bodies work better in some orientation than others.
I have done the M6GT a couple times and the interior is rough from the support....but I just don't much care since it's all invisible.

Shells are much better than trying to hollow out a solid model....but you take what you can when you want a specific body......

[-Nimrod-]

Great work again Cobra
What will be the livery or is it the street version?

Cheers
NiMROD

[ccobra]

[-Nimrod-]

Sorry Mate,

No interior on the original model.

Cheers
NiMROD

[ccobra]

No worries Nimrod, once I get them to work I'll send you a copy to add to yours.

[-Nimrod-]

I do have the glass and engine all intact
I'll email it tonight

Cheers
Nimrod

[ccobra]

Finished printing up and assembly a chassis and installed into the body so just had to try it out on the track.

and after a few laps it turned in a 7.882 and then I got a best of 7.113 after 37 laps. not bad for a printed car.

But then I looked at the other 1/32 scale cars and found a small problem. When I set up the body, I just did and overall scale to get the length scaled up to the 162 in overall length but didn't notice the overall width was over by a 1/2 inch for the scale which needed to come in at 2.25 inches to be to scale. Oh well, sure did handle great with the extra width. And since I started it for the extra width, I might as well finish it.