Cygnus Update

For those that are waiting for Cygnus upgrade parts, apologies for my absence. What have I been up to?

1) Bathroom renos

2) Checking out alternative resins. I've been making non-destructive tweaks to the Form1 to see if I can modify it to use DLP resins such as Makerjuice G+. Stay tuned, I should be sharing my secret in near future.

3) Pushing ahead with detailing strips, crowsnests and antennae bases for the Cygnus. Also tweaking the antenna for the Palomino.

4) Most importantly, this...

Cygnus Landing Bay v2.0 Test Fit

This one is fitting together quite a bit better...

Cygnus Landing Bay v1.0 Test Fit

After a bit of chopping, sanding and a really half-assed paintjob, here we are...

It turned out a couple of mm short and I don't like how thick the side walls are. Will be redesigning the wall parts today.

Cygnus Landing Bay

I've worked out most of the bugs with printing the landing bay detail set. Here is a picture of the latest parts...

Only one fly in the ointment -- due to printing and design tolerances, etc etc, my bay is about 1.5 mm too narrow. I'm going to do a test build with the parts shown anyways to get an idea of how they fit together and paint up. Then I'll do some cutting on the Cygnus and figure out just how much I need to tweak the size.

Aaaaaaaand another...

Landing bay and Palomino in 10 parts...

Palomino & Landing Bay

Here's a pic of the upgraded Palomino and landing bay that I am working on this weekend...

More Cygnus Pictures

Not much to say, just some pictures of the LEVEL 2 expansion section. Will need to alter some of the support structure for the print job and reroute a little on the piping, but the design is pretty much done for this bit. Now on to the landing bay...