Battle Bus - Fortnite

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With 45 million players ‘Fortnite’ by Epic Games is one of the hottest games around and from this game comes the battle bus that drops players into the map below. The sum of many weeks of spare time is this battle bus, designed exclusively for 3D printing. This design is as much a painting project as it is a printing one, a reflection of my recent passion for painting. I feel that painting it really matches the aesthetic style of the in-game model (I have included some in-game screenshots for reference when painting). This seems to be a good guide for painting printed parts: https://pinshape.com/blog/4-easy-tips-for-painting-3d-printed-parts/ My printer is currently out of action with a broken heater and fan issues, so I will upload pictures of a printed and painted model once it's fixed. But I would really appreciate it if you uploaded your prints. I have tried to cut the model up to minimize the amount of supports necessary. The balloon only needs supports for the pulleys on the outside as I've hollowed it out to reduce printing time and materials, but still kept all angles above 45°. The rest of the pieces will also need some supports, and I would recommend using a higher support density to support the smaller features. The file names and pictures above should make assembly fairly straightforward, but comment below if you have any questions. I would recommend using a low infill density but as fine layer resolution as you can for the best results out of the smaller features. Post a comment if you'd like the original .ipt file for alternative cutting/edits/remixes. Although, I should warn that the file is quite large (over 200 sketches, 100 extrusions, 40 work planes, and around 200 total features) and probably very messy and inefficient (I pretty much taught myself Inventor). If you want it cut a different way and don't have access to Inventor, just comment, and I can probably do it for you. Also, comment any suggestions or improvements. This is by far the most complex model I've designed so far, and it's not a carbon copy because most of the features on the original are 2D textures (and it honestly is fairly lazily made). But I think it's a pretty good replica based on the dodgy screenshots that I took. The ropes connecting the balloon to the bus are not actually part of the model as I've designed it so that you can glue some string to the pulleys near the flame and run it through the two sets of pulleys on the balloon, then tie them down at the pulleys on the corners of the bus like the in-game model. This way, the bus can be suspended by the balloon by hanging the balloon from something or a transparent rod could be run from the bus to the balloon to keep it up. There are multiple ways to do the flame: you could print it in transparent blue, print it in transparent and so a light shade of watered-down blue, or do what I will do as I have no transparent filament and print it in an opaque color and paint it to look like a flame. It would probably look quite fine without the flame as well because I've detailed the inside of the nozzle. You could scale it down, but I would suggest using a very small nozzle diameter to maintain feature definition as currently a lot of things are 0.5mm. I have made this design free for a couple of reasons: 1. I'm not going to get as many downloads if it's paid, and spending two months designing for one person would be a waste of time, but designing for 100 people would be worthwhile. 2. I don't feel like connecting my account to a bank account. I am currently working on making it possible to put in LEDs behind the lights to make them light up, but you could just cut out the infill necessary. If you want one better suited to smaller printers, see https://pinshape.com/items/44224/the-vulcan-3d-printer-model by Rob. Anyway, I had better stop typing before I run out of characters. Happy printing.