So the filament costs about £15 per 1kg. Unless I move to carbon infused nylon which is around 3 or 4 times the price. The 1/4 of the tail that is printing at the minute is 175g when finished so the top of the tail will cost around £12ish in plastic. Then maybe £10 worth of fibreglass (or £30/£40 in carbon fibre) to skin the print. Not accounting for the hours of my life scanning and modelling the panels, the electric the printer is using or the mess I will inevitably make when I get resin all over the house I haven’t sat down and worked out the cost but maybe £100 in plastic (7kg in filament) then fibreglass or carbon and paint will probably be where the cost will come in. But I’ll pop it all on here to ensure no one else tries to undertake such a ridiculous project
Printer does most of the work, if you get a printer and get stuck always happy to help out where I can. I’m no expert tho so expect the odd printer bed of filament spaghetti
Yep, gonna give it a go. Couple of years racing (and crashing) in the Desmodue series years ago meant I had to learn how to use fibreglass
I have very little patience when it come to fixing/building stuff, so I’m left truly agog at threads like this tbh. it’s what the documentary channels are missing a proper series akin to car SOS imo.
Printing the left side of the rear seat is proving challenging, think I’ve found what the issue was with the part not bonding to the printer bed… falling over and then some filament spaghetti this is what happened when the melted plastic has nothing to be printed onto, as you can imagine you can’t print onto thin air. But we live and learn. But seems to be printing ok now and should be done tomorrow
Can I take it you’re *just replicating the design and not all the bolt holes etc? Or is the model you bought accurate enough to avoid drilling your own fixings?
Replicating the model and using pictures of the GP22 bikes for reference. Impossible to use 100% the same mounting points as Ducati won’t let me use one of their frames…. Selfish gits. So having to make do with the original V4 frame so will be using my imagination for mounting points and such.
Finally printed all the sections for the rear tail upper panel. Taped them together whilst debating the best way to fibreglass them. And doesn’t look too obnoxious when I try and marry it up to the bike. Now the printers are on with printing the 6 lower rear fairing (lunch box) scanned the right upper fairing wing today so nearly modelled the nose cone so that’ll be next to print. Took a picture of the cloud points the scanner picks up just for those that haven’t 3D scanned anything. I still find it amazing seeing the detail.
Still part of the project but not specifically 3D printing… I was looking for an ally tank to possibly remodel to use on the build and stumbled across a tank on eBay advertised as a Ducati Streetfighter tank. Anyway I won the tank and got bored so tried to find what bike it came off originally as I don’t think it was a streetfighter …. I found out what bike the tank came from… Does anyone want to have a guess before I put up the answer? And it really makes me wonder whether I should be contemplating ‘modding’ it
I’ll give you that , definitely the right bike and maybe used on the 16 as well, the only picture I could match it to is this one from the motoGP test in Sepang in 2014. Couple more images of the tank to compare… I’ve pinged Ducati a message just in case it’s a crime to possess and/or modify a MotoGP part the more I think about it the more I need to see if I can make it fit and work on the project… without destroying it
Sadly not no. He didn’t have anymore Ducati parts for sale… I checked to see if he had the rest of the GP14 bike in his garage
