by MJHeed, publishedMay 6, 2018                        

For Julian, the director of "The Verse"  (youtube.com/watch?v=B24h1SYIxEc).   Thanks for rekindling my love for Firefly!
The Overland was his team's creation for their short film.

This 6 inch model was printed with my 0.25 nozzle at a layer height of 0.1mm (17.5 hours).   There are a lot of fine details.  Thanks to Joe for the suggestion to make the engines rotate like in the movie.  It's a nice effect.   I chose to split the model to create the cleanest print with the smallest amount of supports required.  Depending on your printers tolerances, you may need to scrape the holes out with an x-acto blade to make the pegs fit tight.  Mine fit so tight, there is no glue required to join.

I'm quite happy with this Filament too!  WOW!   I first bought "ColorFabb - Brass Fill" - but it has so much real brass, that it's fragile and crumbly.   This "Gizmo Dorks - Metal Filament Bronze" looks AMAZING in bright lights!  And it's not nearly as fragile.  I've been on the hunt for good metal looking filaments and this one satisfies my golden needs.   Next I'm printing one in Ultimaker Silver.  It promises to be a very good quality silver.  I'll post an update when it's complete.

Soon I'll be shrinking this down to a 2 inch model to go along with my Firefly Board Game Ships.
It's going to require a lot of modifications, because many of the details are already as small as some printers can slice.

Print Settings

Printer Brand:                      

Ultimaker

Printer:                      

Ultimaker 2

Rafts:                      

No

Supports:                      

Yes

Resolution:                      

.25 noz 0.1mm layer

Infill:                      

20%

Notes:

17.5 hours to print.
Holes & Pegs to join halves are very tight tolerance and may require adjustments.
Supports are needed in several places.
The antennas are so small and fragile, I had to print them on top of their own raft.  An x-acto blade gently run down their sides at a 45º angle repeatedly, will remove them from the raft cleanly.  So fragile.  Be careful!   And, the two small turrets/antennas on the nose are too fragile as well.  Mine immediately broke off the smallest bits, leaving them half as long, but they still look great.

Two STL files uploaded :
"Overland Split.stl" is for printing. Everything laid out separately for printing.
"Overland-No-Print.slt" is just for 3D viewing.  Nothing separated for printing.