This week, I are mostly been printing... Teeny Tiny Drop Pods!!
Isn't it just the way you wait ages for a commissioned print and two come along at once. This time it's my work chum Gary who needed some drop pods for an upcoming game of Adeptus Epicus or something like that. You know the one, the latest hotness from Games Workshop.
StarPorts - P.O.D. (Print on Demand) Droplets - Cults 3D
I don't really have much to say about these other than I managed to get 5 Dreadnought sized pods on one build plate and eight of the smaller unit sized pods on a second. Print time was about an hour and a half each.
The models came well supported but the packaging of the files was a bit weird. Extracting the zip file dumped 3 folders on my desktop; a Lychee scenes folder, a supported STLs and an Unsupported STLs. I was not expecting this and so I thought that the zip file hadn't actually unzipped. Weird.
I always opt for supported files and as I was leaving these on the support rafts for Gary to get the full experience of removing supports 😂 I didn't bother to check if these were hollow or not. I assumed that they were solid. To my surprise, and as you can see in the image above, these were actually hollow which explains why they came out of the wash & cure station a little sticky. They had actually trapped a huge amount of resin in the hollowed out sections as it effectively formed a cup with nowhere for that resin to drain out of because they print upside down.
If I were printing again I would add my own supports and orientate them so that the unused resin can drain away whilst still being attached to the build plate. A minor gripe I know but sometimes these things matter.
Anyway, as you can see these are considerably smaller than the full size drop pod for WH40K. Aint they cute 😃
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