LarryBAR99

In my excitement about working on the X-Wing  I forgot to describe my other project after fixing my printer nozzle.  I stumbled across Luna (from Destination Moon) model rocket by Works-Of-Claye on Thingiverse.  It's a small rocket, using a B or C engine, but the author admits he hadn't flown it at the time he shared the files.  I was attracted to this rocket because it was featured in the 1950 movie, Destination Moon  and I'm a sucker for retro looking SciFi rockets (like the Silver Comet ). I made some modifications to what the author's design, including adding a base to the nose cone in Thingiverse so it slipped into the body tube instead of having to clamp onto the top of the body tube.   Using Tinkercad to add a base for the nose cone I also modified the gcode for the lower body to pause and change filaments to print red tips on the fin pods .  I printed the baffle and a screw on 18 mm engine retainer using PETG for heat resistance. Printing the red tipped pods I

I've had some printer problems in the past month where the print head kept moving but nothing was coming out.  After a lot of Googling and anguish I figured out I needed to replace the nozzle on the print head and how to do it when the filament was stuck and wouldn't retract.  Anyway, I'm back in business now. NCR X-Wing Fighter from 1996 Estes Catalog I came across a cool looking build thread on The Rocketry Forum entitled X-Wing Fighter Builds . The author, The Red Darren, was going through several different iterations of 3D printing and building a Star Wars X-Wing using balsa for the fins.  He's still perfecting his project, but shared a couple of STL files  which got me interested.  I printed the parts, which are meant to be assembled like shown here : I quickly recognized the solid parts would be hard to turn into a rocket.  I'd made a couple of attempts at using my printer's ability to print in "vase mode", where one thin continuous layer is prin