![]() ![]() I then added the details such as creating the engine, its mounting ring, and greeblies for it. I started off with a sphere and kept editing it into key major components starting with three ship hulls (top dome, middle window hull, and lower hull). This means the model is about 12" in diameter. SCALE - i chose to make the model just fit on my Creality CR-10 S4 printer which has a bed of 300 x 300 mm. SketchUp works better for angular items such as architectural or mechanical parts and is limited in such things as threads, gear teeth etc. Take the time to learn this software and the sky is the limit. Fusion 360 is quite popular and handles very organic shapes well like curves, spheres, and such for helmets etc. There are other (FREE) softwares out there that are much more powerful such as Fusion 360 or Blender, but they take a significant amount of effort to learn to be able to draw this type of object (but I'm still trying to make the switch). I use a very easy to learn CAD software called SketchUp which cost me about $50. The best thing is that it then is manufactured for you, while you do something more important like taking your dog for a walk or eating pizza! One of the most fun aspects of 3D printing is that you can readily create something from your imagination to a physical item in a relatively few steps and effort. I drew all parts for this assembly in SketchUp CAD, transferred to CURA to 3D print it, and assembled and finished it off. This is a complete scratch build from those reference photos, scaled to fit on a 300 x 300 x 400 mm 3d print bed. Their photos are on the internet of which I referenced to create my own affordable model to adorn my shop. ![]() ![]() Recently, the model wass made availble for a company to reverse engineer the model, document all of the details on how the model was built. If found, they are in the several hundreds of dollars to obtain if they are available for sale. Since the movie has been released over 50 years ago, models of the ships HAD been sold to the public back then, but since have fallen out of production and extremely hard to find. The model that survived was this Aries 1B and was eventually put up for auction and it sold for $344,000 to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts. The studio (MGM) had ordered all of the models destroyed after the film was made but a few years ago the only surviving model was discovered in a warehouse in England where the movie was filmed. So essentially, the designs have a lot of technical merit behind them. The cool part about all the ships in the movie is that they went to NASA and spent outrageous amounts of time picking rocket scientist brains for what space travel might actually look like in the year 2001. Heywood Floyd from the Earth space station to the moon to investigate the monolith. Clark and Stanley Kubrick (1968) you will recognize this as a model of the Aries 1B which transported the Dr. If you are a fan of the iconic Sci Fi movie 2001 - A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. This completely scratch built project is 99-44/100% plastic with a little bit of electrical wiring (and paint) to bring it to life! It is primarily PLA (3D filament) with polystrene sheets for the exterior door panels, a little acetate for the windows and acrylic (polycarbonate) for the interior seating cabin ceiling. ![]()
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