I started this bytes to battleship project well over a year ago after stumbling onto some online photos of Charles Martel. I instantly knew I wanted one!
I've been working up the courage to commit to this project post here for quite a while. (On my website I can just delete the whole thing if it doesn't work out )
When I started this, I was just getting dangerous at Blender and wanted a challenging "from scratch" project to sink my new 3d design fangs into. After spending many, many, "spare" hours on it over the past year, I was definitely getting better. I started reworking earlier sections with new modeling methods and finding new online pictures causing me to redo previous guess work. This could easily have gone on for another year but felt the need to call the design done and start carving Charles Martel up into printable sections.
Below are a couple screen shots of the Blender render:
The cutting of the design into printable sections for my Elegoo Saturn took another month or so but then the printing began! Below are a few of the printed parts:
These prints easily took 12 - 15 hours, fortunately I had zero print failures and was done initial printing in just over a week. I may need to reprint some parts if I mess them up too badly trying to put her together.
I've now separated all the supports from the printed parts, mostly without too much damage and that's where I am right now. I'll add one more picture of a mockup I put together of some of the larger parts.
Progress will likely be pretty slow but I hope to update this thread with new work periodically.
Wish me luck and thanks for looking!
PS: Forgot to mention at 1/200 she is almost exactly 2 feet long.