Giant 1.7 metre 3d printed RC ship

[Bernard_Dohnt]

Hi everyone, I just wanted to share my first print. A giant 1.7 metre Armidale Class Patrol Boat that is fully remote controlled. By first print I mean the first item that I attempted to print. It cost me 9 spools in failed prints until I got it right, and the finished product requires 21 separate prints. I could have easily smoothed everything off so you wouldn’t recognize that the finished product was 3d printed, but I really wanted to keep that rough printed finish for this one.

It features a working bow thruster, twin rudder, twin screw, working nav lights, and rotating radar. Everything is printed except the electronics, paint, and glue.

Check out a demo video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tujd2Znek0g

It turned out so well, that I have started a business manufacturing them. I am also working on many other projects that will blow this one out of the water. Check them out at www.berncomodels.com

[Bernard_Dohnt]

Also, here are a few of my current projects. A 1 metre Smit London ocean tug, and a freaking HUGE 2.2 metre Kanimbla class LPA.

[Filemon]

Holy! This is nice!

[gabriela3d]

Just awesome! Good luck with the project

[3Dscaleworks]

Bernard,

super well done!

[KevinJ]

21 individual prints? That’s nuts. Could do it in one or two prints max with the printer I have now.

[Autofan]

Wow, that is awesome. The finished ship looks great.

[boydconnor]

First print?!?! Wow!

[Bernard_Dohnt]

I am currently working on a design modification to grow my printers out to 1 cubic metre, but am having trouble finding a suitable heat bed. Would it be possible to purchase several smaller heat beds and run them all on a 30A power supply?

[Jonathan_Michae]

Well its amperage but your gonna wanna do a secondary powersupply for them and with that much current I would separate it entirely and just do a dedicated Controller for it and the nice part about it being 12 volts is that power supplies are dirt cheap

[Matthew_Ingl_1]

Would you be able to release the 3d models for this? I can’t model boats for crap!

[Bernard_Dohnt]

Already available! You can grab all of the STL’s here…1-35th Remote Controlled Armidale Class Patrol Boat | 3D Print Model

[Matthew_Ingl_1]

Very impressive! But a bit too steep a price tag unfortunately. Just curious, what did you model it in?

[Bernard_Dohnt]

I wish I could lower the price for you, but it took me 6 months of hard work to test and develop. Even at the current price its sold at a loss.

I used sketchup to model it.

[Matthew_Ingl_1]

Yeah no I completely understand. You should sell it on other sites too, like shapeways, you deserve it, its an outstanding model!

[heyning]

Very impressive! That looks really nice.

One thing, your website is down… Would have loved to see some more models!

[Bayley]

Hello, are you able to take a photo of the rudder set up?

[keith66]

I have this model and am printing as we speak, i have found it very good value and Bernard has been a great help when i contacted him for it,