Hello its Ricardo and welcome back to elite dangerous beyond I'm here to talk
about a great ship that was introduced to the game not so long ago and there's
really two into sup into the gentlemen's racer the Mamba by Zorgon Peterson
now the Mamba is quintessential for certain items we know it's a very
powerful ship once you engineer it we know in fact it's really really quick so
we've got the speed it's a luxurious nice-looking ship it really has that
level of design and should we say finesse but what's it like in the real
world well with the modern advances of 3d printing and the fact that I've got a
3d printer and those of you who watch the channel know that I'm printing
Vincent from the black hole well know that 3d printing is in our new passion
of mine well going on to certain sites on the internet you're able to download
and these are all down into the Creative Commons and license to thrill that
frontier is issued the models are the certain ships from any dangerous and
most of them are there if not all of them are there now the site I'm talking
about is Thingiverse now the Thingiverse is a great site for all sorts of models
from every junior whether it's you want to print a cup or whether you print out
a ship of amber from elite dangerous this particular model here from this
creator is a really good example off the ship he's included some screenshots from
the game and he's put all three segments of the ship which is gonna be easier for
printing now it is quite a good model the 3d printer I've got is this reality
CR 10 s for which it's got a 400 by 400 by 400 build plate now that means I
could print this ship out huge but I'm not going to print it out huge just yet
I'm going to print it out as enabled as defined and see how that goes now I say
the creator of this file has put it into three convenient shape modules this will
reduce the amount of support and metier used in creating it we see what the
front the middle in the back section where the engines live and we've got
four little pins that will help to keep it all aligned and when we glue it
together and put it together so when you get the file if you want to print these
out bigger and individually you're gonna have to put them into a program like 3d
builder and in segment them out it's not going to be too difficult to do that if
you're interested drop me a line via the email or in the comments section and I
can go through it with you or perhaps even do a video on it if you're
interested so these ships here or this particular
ship here very detailed nice detailing around the engines as you can see all
the detail seems to be there from the main model and when I glue it together
or whatever eventually printed out and then glue it together I'm sure it'll be
a great addition don't know where I'm gonna put it mind but there you go so
let's get on with it then Cherie let's get printing this massive speedster the
member from elite dangerous and let's print it out
so I'm gonna put a little bit of picture and picture in the top right-hand side
of the screen so like I said I'm using the Cree ality CR 10s for the filament
I'm using is just some orange filament I've got off Aliexpress really cheap I'm
using a six millimeter head which is a pretty good idea of sort of shaving down
amount of print time that you have in regards to detail I think it's a pretty
good trade-off mostly 3d printers come with a four millimeter print from such
now we know the mambas design draws inspiration really from Zorgon
Peterson's famed fer-de-lance craft and you can see that not only with
the colors that looks like the gran torino from Starsky and Hutch but also
the fact that you know it doesn't look a million miles away and you can always
see that it's got heavy firepower and speed so it's getting do the job hit
them hard and ain't get out now both ships both the fer-de-lance and the
Mamba have similar costs and capabilities and basically deciding
which one you purchase is down to your own personal preference I mean I like
the further lands to be perfectly on - I think that's great I mean the Mambo
is become capable of class of class for weaponry and mounting that and the
Beluga and further Lance have six utility slots that's not so bad really
this one I think you know it's got the edge in addition to its single huge head
point however the man bar also possesses an the two large head points two small
hard points and that's quite an arsenal I think - behold now here we go he's got
the marble printed out took just over I think six hours really to do it and
lastly I put the picture in picture time-lapse on the screen already so you
can see the process details come out pretty good what we're going to I now
get it all assembled put it together and put some pictures up and we're going to
talk about those in a minute and then I'm gonna go through the painting
process give it a coat of underlay and see what it looks like so I've got the
items off the printbed and the details felt pretty good given the fact it's a
six millimeter novel not a four millimeter like I was saying so I've
been set of printing up some big stuff the filament has performed pretty well
you know there's not much stringing there's no layering you know the model
is what it is I do think this model would lend itself to being printed out a
little bit bigger than that I'm happy with the engine details as well at this
stage of the game I don't think the orange pigment of the filament is really
doing the model any justice looking at the rear section as well a little bit of
stringing around their knees a little bit cleaner but an awful lot of the
detail has come through and I'm quite happy with that as well lots of
detailing around the engines that sort of thing you know if you look at the
reverse side as well yeah they've got those engine details around around by
the fuel scoops or air intakes or whatever they are air intakes it's it's
a spaceship anyway so looking at the cockpit section again a little bit clean
up around the cockpit a little bit of burrowing around the edges give a quick
sanding over a bit of a scrape with a screwdriver and I think we're gonna be
pretty much in business so yeah a lot of details come out given the size the
novel in the speed I was printing out again only a six hour print
all good stuff now if you sort of offer them up basically we can see how it's
going to look and there it is there is a Mamba realized in 3d printed glory so
what we're gonna do now is we're gonna get them all put together we're gonna
get some glue out I said I'll glue it to the table must
always be a wise thing to do so I got some rigid plastic glue got it from the
cheap shop who cares I'm gonna put a little bit of glue on it just to keep it
in place not going to need loads of glue with this stuff bonds together pretty
well anyway just in the middle in the section a little bit either sides and
round the pins and then we'll offer up the front section the cockpit section to
it and when that dries then I'll think about adding the engines
so using that using a bit of gravity I can then put it all together get those
pins in as well there's the pin going in and then I'll put it in the base instead
and offer it up slowly gently ease it into place and even though there is a
seam line there you know a little bit of paint will probably fill that up no
problem at all and they've got the front section of the man but when it dries
let's do the engines
so the glue on the front section has now gone off it's quite rigid that one line
might eat a bit of filling a bit booing there as well a little bit more
additional cleanup but now it's in one piece you can certainly see why it's all
about now to connect the engine section on the rear of the ship now the pins and
that big I think they're just big enough to fit into the holes that are being
provided just to provide a bit of a guideline as well so they all go in
there no problem at all and all of detail lines up just got to be careful
of that rear fin so we're gonna go ahead get some glue on and then think about
how we're gonna use gravity to hold it in place I mean the going off time the
set time of this is quite short so I'll just hold it in place till it becomes
tacky and then invert it so we've got some glue on the pieces and it goes and
I hold it in place
thankfully the front of the ship hasn't hasn't fallen off it's always a wise
thing and I put the other section in and the whole model that bended and got a
little bit using there from the glue to clear that up for sofa quite happy with
it for a quick print so using a bit of engineer tea and the tops of spray cans
that's how I'm going to place another Mamba so it doesn't fall over and the
glue goes and dries so usually if plastic they've got a knocking about to
get that losing off and now it's off to give it a coat of undercoat now with the
model completely together you can see it's definitely starting to take shape
and with a bit of undercoat it certainly has helped bring out some of the details
but also brought out the three lovely Briggs seams in the middle of the model
I do think some of this model would lend itself to being printed bigger and
perhaps in two pieces as opposed to three some filler in with some wood
filler I think our light sanding would get rid
of a lot of that seam as well perhaps even some putty some of that merely put
as well but with it painted red you know you can definitely tell what it is but
that seam is a definite thing to get a bit of filling in and then a light
sanding anyway so there you go that's me printing the Mamba the zorg on Peterson
Mantha from elite dangerous on my CR 10s for not so bad like I say it would lend
itself to a bigger a bigger print and also that seem as a bit of an issue but
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