New for 2017... This baby has it all... bucket seats to hold you in place, a convertible top to cruise for Earth girls, and a huge interstellar thruster to get you to the Earth girls quickly. Be the envy of all your friends and most major governments.*
*Some assembly required.
Printer Brand:
Ultimaker
Printer:
Ultimaker Original
Rafts:
No
Supports:
No
Resolution:
0.2
Infill:
20%
Notes:
I have provided an STL for the main body as one big thing, but I highly suggest that you print the sections that I have provided and glue them all together. The sections were selected to eliminate support. This model was intended from the start to be sanded and coated with automotive body filler (Bondo), but the finish and execution of your print is entirely up to you.
The un-fun part...
Unless you print this very small, you will likely have to print out the nine main body parts, the wings, the thruster, and the seats and glue them all together. I went the extra mile and slathered the thing with Bondo, sanded, repeated many times, primed, and painted.
I used felt to line the interior, and also to upholster the seats. The bottom of the seats have the hook side of the Velcro so they stick to the interior felt but are removable / repositionable.
Way too thick on the Bondo. Do not do this!
Sanded down.
After many coats of Bondo and primer. (I would ocationally spray with primer to get a uniform color so I could better see the low spot.)
Wings and thruster glued on. I used Welder contact adhesive fo the whole project.
How I designed this...
This was modeled entirely in Sketchup. I used a plugin called "Curviloft" which, amoung many other things, will take the outlines of several planes and weld them together into a single solid. What this means is that I only had to create a few 2D "slices" of the craft at regular intervals from front to back and let the plugin fill in the gaps. The model is included in the files if anyone wants to modify or add to it.
