Greeting-Card Plane with Propeller

It is a toy plane with wing shaped winges designed for 3D-printing without supports. Hope you enjoy it!!
4h 29m
4× print file
0.20 mm
0.60 mm
0.40 mm
57.00 g
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updated March 16, 2023

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This plane is designed and iterated to be printed without supports. It needs less 15g of filament and prints in about an hour (55m with 0,6 mm nozzle, 1h19m with 0,4 mm nozzle). This is for the whole greeting card, not the seperate parts. 

The wings are actually wing-shaped which seemed to increase its flight quality.

 

The assembly works simply by sticking corresponding grooves together as visible for the back wing and the propeller mout. As for the main wings the connecting arms of the left wing must be passed through the plane body first, before sticking it in the v-groove on the bottom of the right wing.

 

Depending on your printers bridging capabilities some cleanup is requiered or a tiny amount of supports on the right wing. So far I printed with an 0,6 mm nozzle and PETG and my cleanup was a little more intensive than I hoped it would be.

 

I'm hoping to iterate some more in this plane in the future especially on the connecting mechanism of the main wings, to eliminate overhangs all together and make for an even nicer model in total.

 

I hope you enjoy printing building and flying it! 

 

 

Model origin

The author marked this model as their own original creation.

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