Progress on the wing continues.
Need to pick up some glue today when I'm out and about. I still need to print the canopy and right aileron, left wing is printing as I type so that's still about 14 more hours of printing itself. The ailerons go quick though, about 50 minutes per section. Canopy I don't know yet. Still debating how to print it due to the support needed.
Plus I'm going to redo the winglets in black along with the canopy - but I haven't had time to test my black filament and calibrate it yet. So I need to do that too still.
I suspect that living where I am I'll get a lot of cracks about flying a mexican flag. But I can just point out that there's no eagle in the middle so it's actually italian. Of course the real reason for the colors is that they're what I had on hand. And I don't have large spools of them so I didn't want to do the whole wing in the same one. I considered doing the center in PETG since I have clear PETG - but I think the stiffness of PLA is needed there.
The center is an easier print in that it has more thickness, for me it was 2 layers with a touch of infill in a few isolated places. The nose I printed with support even though support probably wasn't necessary. I usually have a hard time removing PLA supports but these can off by themselves almost. The new support updates in the prusa version of slic3r seems to be helping. I had to print the main center in two parts but found someone who had already done that and put some thought into it chopping it into 3 parts for easiest printing without support. Support may have made a few details a little cleaner...but I'm happy with how it came out. Biggest complaint is that I used a 3mm brim due to how thin the parts are. And while that helped hold things in place it's kind of a pain to remove on the mating surfaces like that. My seam isn't going to be super clean.
Printing some of the left (green) wing parts placed differently on the platter to see if they do better or worse with the other edge against the build plate.

Need to pick up some glue today when I'm out and about. I still need to print the canopy and right aileron, left wing is printing as I type so that's still about 14 more hours of printing itself. The ailerons go quick though, about 50 minutes per section. Canopy I don't know yet. Still debating how to print it due to the support needed.
Plus I'm going to redo the winglets in black along with the canopy - but I haven't had time to test my black filament and calibrate it yet. So I need to do that too still.
I suspect that living where I am I'll get a lot of cracks about flying a mexican flag. But I can just point out that there's no eagle in the middle so it's actually italian. Of course the real reason for the colors is that they're what I had on hand. And I don't have large spools of them so I didn't want to do the whole wing in the same one. I considered doing the center in PETG since I have clear PETG - but I think the stiffness of PLA is needed there.
The center is an easier print in that it has more thickness, for me it was 2 layers with a touch of infill in a few isolated places. The nose I printed with support even though support probably wasn't necessary. I usually have a hard time removing PLA supports but these can off by themselves almost. The new support updates in the prusa version of slic3r seems to be helping. I had to print the main center in two parts but found someone who had already done that and put some thought into it chopping it into 3 parts for easiest printing without support. Support may have made a few details a little cleaner...but I'm happy with how it came out. Biggest complaint is that I used a 3mm brim due to how thin the parts are. And while that helped hold things in place it's kind of a pain to remove on the mating surfaces like that. My seam isn't going to be super clean.
Printing some of the left (green) wing parts placed differently on the platter to see if they do better or worse with the other edge against the build plate.