3D printing some FPV UAV drones from CULTS3D

Wanted to share some 3D printed drones. Hope this topic location will free up James Lees 3D topic that I have been crowding :wink: The files are not my own but come from CULTS3D.

The FPV is what first caught my eye.
On CULTS3D there is Kamikaze FPV drone 1:35 (First person view) RPG Grenade, FPV Drohne by AG87

My attempt was

Making rafts of 6 little drones at a time takes less than an hour to print. Scaled up the Z direction by 20% to get arms and some propellers. The painting and weathering based on Youtube videos was fun.

Add some supports and formation creations open up interesting possibilities.

1/35 scale PSP controllers and crew staff are next.

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Likely controllers are available on CULTS. The Playstation 3, the SWITCH, and the PSP controller all offered by zjjj927. These are easily scaled down from his original 1/24 scale to 1/35 scale for printing.

The initial printed parts in scale look good. Sorry for the poor pictures but future paint will pull out these details.

More to come.

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Sprank Drone (race drone with cam gimbal) ](🏎️ Sprank Drone (race drone with cam gimbal)・Free STL File for ・Cults) by mwilmars printed. Honestly gave mixed results but in fairness, I scaled his original model file down to 3%. 3% gets roughly the 1/35 scale print. 3% and things like the landing skids and props got sketchy.

More things to try before moving on to another possibliity

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Found 1/35 Scale DJI mavic 3 from Russo Ukraine war by “ModernModeler”


These are equally tiny and I can not get my printer to support the propellers but they look to be scale.

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I like this suggestion by 18 BRAVO. Rob said:

So I started playing for a minute

and if you use the right glass, the edges are not much of an issue.

I had some microscope slide covers to play with

I don’t know if this would lead to anything useful, but some ideas to kick around.

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