Improving Print Quality
Having been advised that a train of five hoppers plus caboose was going to be too long for most of the fiddle yards and passing loops in our modular group, I decided to print a sixth.
Irish logic? Maybe, but I’m entitled, second generation. No, that gives me two trains of three which, with removable loads allows for a little more interactivity.
Here is that sixth hopper, again before paint. This time, having noticed some reduced quality in the base due to lack of support, I printed it with additional support. You can see a couple that I’ve already removed, in front of the wagon and the discs visible are those that haven’t been snapped off yet. The support prints as a fractal tree, branching out to support the area as required, with a very thin layer at the interface with the actual model, making them easy to remove.