Going from the Form1+ to the Form2 the body was originally 12 pieces, 6 on top and 6 on bottom. With the larger print volume of the Form2 I did it in 4 parts which made it much easier
Interior done in two halves
attached the interior to the top half and primed it
Painted the interior colors, center console painted metal and placed in there for the photo
very careful masking to do the yellow paint on this part. Ended up redoing it several times due to paint issues
A test with some of the big parts taped together to look at the overall size.
Here's the arduino attached to the inside of the bottom half
Here's the OLED screen module.
Here's all the parts, the right engine was smoothed and primed, but I decided to wait until I did the left engine to paint them both at the same time.
Got good results on the detailed parts
Closed the two halves together and ran all the lights through. The center console has LED's underneath with clear 3D printed parts inserted into the button spots.
The back part is getting closed off so I took a picture of the interior with the arduino there.
Finished sanding and smoothing the body seams and masked off the interior so I could paint the body.
The lights on the back are installed and masked off so I don't paint over the lights
Yellow is painted and it's masked off to do the orange
Here is after the orange is painted
Now the green is masked off after painting the orange. It took 3 hours to do all the masking. It's just very tedious
After painting the yellow/orange/green
After finishing the body paint, I needed some silver line details on the dashboard, originally tried paint pens but they weren't fine enough so I made some vinyl masks and masked it off so I could spray the lines.
Printing the masks and cutting them out of vinyl sticker sheets helped to get some of the perfect edges for the paint masking.
Arranged one of the engines to get things organized.
Placed a lot of the interior parts in, the main controls have a pretty simple lighting setup, clear parts for the buttons and then 4 LED's behind that to light them all up.
The main body is finished and the parts for the engines are clean and laid out to be assembled.
First engine assembled. Here's a tip, for AK metal paints you need to wait a few days before you use masking tape on them, otherwise it'll leave some adhesive behind on the paint.
Compare to the old Hasbro toy.
Star Wars Speeder 3D print Making Of
Here's some photos of the process of making the speeder. I made the most progress when I got the Form1+ printer, but later that year they announced the Form2 and it had enough improvements that I sold the Form1+ so that I could preorder it and then put the project on hold until it shipped. I have a box of the old parts I printed on the Form1+ but I redid them all with the Form2, it gets better results overall and it also gave me an opportunity to redesign some parts to get more detail or to make it easier to assemble.