I have been inspired by the postings in this thread - https://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sh...499#post497499
And so I decided that this would be an ideal project to try my hand. I began by downloading these files from Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2595903
I then discovered that the files, though looking promising were way too small and so my first try was to scale up the Canopus file to give me a model about 170(ish) mm in length. You can see the result of my trial print in the thread referenced above.
I then imported the file in Tinkercad and the first step was to delete all of the coarse details (Turrets, guns, masts & funnels)
I am now partway through recreating (and hopefully improving) these details in Tinkercad - holes for masts and turrets to allow for brass & aluminum rod replacements and I just need to model the turrets and print the files to see how it looks.
Here is a screenshot of where I am up to:
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More to come...