That’s a serious piece of conversion you’re planning for, George.
Curious to see the outcome of your measurements and drawings, really awesome job.

All the work today was in three areas: Cut away detail not needed in this conversion, filling holes in the deck not needed in this conversion, and continuing to measure and make templates for the new areas of the ship. I am trying move slowly and deliberately here so I don't cut something off that I will need later.

Looking down the road, I am most worried about replacing the tiny double-bollards and chocks that have been removed from the deck. I bought some commercially-made double-bollards, but they are far too large for a destroyer-sized ship. All of the bollards I can find online are for either battleships or cruisers. I decided to try to create them using my 3D liquid resin printer. After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to try a long-shot idea. I just got a new 3D filament printer for Father's Day. It is light years better than my old one, so I wondered if it might be successful in printing these parts. Traditionally, a filament printer is not capable of the same detail as a liquid resin printer. So, it seems counterintuitive to try the filament printer for something so small. The long side of these bollards scales to a size of 1.1 mm, so we are talking really tiny stuff. Much to my surprise, my new filament printer created 15 bollards that look pretty good. I will continue working with settings, but I am really liking my new printer.

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Really nice progress, George @gblair
Those printed parts are amazing, so much detail.

Checking in George (@gblair). I like how the conversion is moving forward. It's always cool to have something like this in your collection because you know its one of a kind. I am looking forward to seeing all of this come together.

My goal for today was to get the main deck ready for the conversion steps to come. I have already identified and removed any of the cast detail that wouldn't be needed, so today was fill, sand, and repeat. I also wanted to figure out a way to 3D print the tiny chocks needed for this model. I cut off all of the cast bollards and chocks that were molded on the model and saved them in case I was unsuccessful in casting replacements. Today, on attempt #3, I managed to print some chocks. I think they are pretty close in size to those originally on the model. I designed them so their long side is 1.2mm in length. I hope to get the new sides for the troop compartment cut out and installed tomorrow.

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Thanks, Spiros (@fiveten). Lots of fun, so far, especially figuring out how to print this stuff.

Thanks, John (@johnb). Very difficult to print small things like this. Now I know why nobody makes bollards and chocks for destroyer-sized models.