Perry Rhodan Fleetbuilding Program

[Steel Penguin]

quite a fleet now, and looking good,  consistent design feel to them all. 

[Rick Lowe]

"Let the Games Begin!"   

[nönöbär]

Printing the Fleet

These days you could almost call it printing the fleet. Since cleaning up resin prints is the least enjoyable part of the process, I usually collect several print jobs and then run a large batch all at once.

That means there are quite a few new spaceships currently in production. Everything shown below has just come off the printer, none of the parts have been cleaned or UV-cured yet.



Three more 100 m cruisers with their landing legs. The legs are extremely delicate, and I only have about a 70% success rate removing the supports without breaking at least one of them.



Two 200 m cruisers with their landing legs. These are much easier to handle because the larger parts are considerably sturdier.



A mixed fleet. The spherical ship is a 200 m Arkon cruiser, while the remaining models are various spacecraft I found on Thingiverse. In my fictional setting they will serve as civilian or alien vessels. There are also a couple of disc-shaped Space-Jets; in "reality" they measure between 30 and 55 metres in diameter.



Speaking of the Space-Jets, they are tiny. Really tiny. The models measure just 10 mm and 13 mm across, which makes the landing legs incredibly fragile.

[Rick Lowe]

Wire or brass rod is your Friend there... 

[Andrew Gorman]

I've heard an ultrasonic knife is the tool to use to cut 3d printed parts free.  I have never used my cheap one for that but it works better on non- styrene materials. In styrene it is just a less messy hot knife. But mine is an Aliexpress cheapie that doesn't work the way it was advertised.

[Rick Lowe]

But mine is an Aliexpress cheapie that doesn't work the way it was advertised.

How very uncharacteristic! (He says, having had similar issues...    )

[Reorx]

Hi,

i follow your build with great interesst, i´v read the Perry Rhodan weekly till above 2000anything.
May i ask, which vessel will be the largest you´re planning? I´m silently hoping for the Sol . Also a Posbi cube ship.

Yours sincerly
Harald

[nönöbär]

Hi,

i follow your build with great interesst, i´v read the Perry Rhodan weekly till above 2000anything.
May i ask, which vessel will be the largest you´re planning? I´m silently hoping for the Sol . Also a Posbi cube ship.

Yours sincerly
Harald

I have read all3300+ of them. And still reading.

I think I will go for a maximum of 200m ships. One of the Ultrabattleships of the SOL would 65cm. So we have two of them and the middle part, so we would e between 1,5 - 2 meters.

And there is this cosmic entity called WIFE that would not allow this....

[Old Wombat]

And there is this cosmic entity called WIFE that would not allow this....

Ah, the universal Cosmic Auditor! 

They can be such uncompromising killjoys, sometimes!