ALBATOR / ARCADIA '78 of Capitan Harlock Full assembly KIT

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This is the ultimate kit to craft your own Arcadia spaceship of Captain Harlock! You'll only need some PLA, a reliable Desktop Printer and... a little bit of care. I spent an extensive amount of time redesigning everything, matching all the images and photographs I found online from the original first cartoon series (1978). After that, I decided to give my personal take on the best spaceship ever: the magnificent, sophisticated and impressive Arcadia of Captain Harlock. If you have a standard 200x200x200 desktop printer, scale all the files at 0.2 with your Slicer (I recommend CURA) and you'll get the same model you see in my pictures. I printed some parts vertically with my DELTA 2040, but I uploaded the cut sections (for example, Front_A half 01 and 02) to respect the standard desktop printing volume. The KIT Assembly is extremely easy; all you need to do is glue everything together (Epoxy bi-component glue works great). I tried to prevent any issues during or after printing: however, please add automatic supports to achieve the best quality, with a standard Nozzle 0.4 and Layer 0.2 as I did. I uploaded some assembly drawings to help you understand the simple steps involved. In the STL files, you'll find some active supports added to aid generation and prevent breakage: for instance, in the cannon files, I added a thin wall to assist the printer in creating the cannon tubes, considering that some slicers might struggle with calculating correct supports. The same applies to Center_A files, as shown in the assembly drawing. IMPORTANT NOTE: 1) Print Two Big_Wings - main wings - mirroring the STL file. 2) Regarding Rockets: I divided them into two parts for easier printing. Rocket 1 needs to be mirrored to obtain the second half part, then glued. Rocket 2 consists of two parts; please mirror both to achieve symmetrical external Rockets (the red ones). 3) The most challenging part is the Command Desk. Here, you need to print it at a slower pace, but it's relatively small, so you won't require much time to complete it.