Night, white
Compact tugboat
A navy and cream toy tugboat with tyres round its hull and a wheelhouse on top, up to four laptops inside, the wheelhouse glows at night. 95 cm tall.
Designed and checked in CAD. Not built in real life yet.
€24
Standard plan. Every computer count included.
Inside
Take it apart
Size
How many computers?
- Height
- 0.95 m
- Footprint
- 58 × 50 cm
- Computers
- 4 laptops
- Power
- 1 power supply, 120 of 260 W
- Filament
- 12.2 kg
- Print time
- 655 h
- OrcaSlicer estimate, ±15 %
- Weight with boards
- 16.2 kg
- Parts and filament, without boards
- €439
- With used laptops (€40–60 each)
- €599–679
About this model
A chunky toy tugboat of no particular ship or company: a navy hull with twelve cream tyre fenders hanging round it on short ropes, cream portholes, two anchors at the bow and a big half-round fender at the bow and the stern, and above it a cream deckhouse with navy doors, life rings and portholes. On top sits the wheelhouse: navy walls under a roof that overhangs them, three windows on every side over a navy band, a cream funnel with a navy band and a mast on the roof. Inside the wheelhouse a cream wall is lit from behind, so at night the boat stays dark and only the wheelhouse glows, and behind the middle front window the ship's wheel stands dark against the light. It is a static desk ornament, not a floating boat, and a square hull like this can also read as a toy ferry. Up to four laptop blades stand in a row in the hull. Its walls are solid, so from outside you never see a computer board; the tyres, portholes and fenders are glued on. Air comes in through the slatted vents in the plinth and leaves through the wheelhouse windows. You pick 2, 3 or 4 computers and the model stays the same size: 0.57 x 0.50 m, 95 cm tall to the top of the mast.
Worth knowing
About 10.4 kg of filament with two computers and 12.2 kg with four (roughly 350 to 410 hours on a fast printer), in two colours: navy for the hull, the wheelhouse, the doors, life rings, the deckhouse portholes, the bands and the ship's wheel, and cream for the deckhouse, the roof plate, the wheelhouse's inner wall, the tyres, the hull portholes, anchors, fenders, the funnel and the mast. The wheelhouse is printed in nine cells with a thin roof skin and glued together, and the mast is a thin flat part, so handle it with care. It needs two 1 m LED strips, one for each half of the liner. The boat is static, a desk ornament that does not float. The tyres, fenders and the mast are decoration, never lift or push the boat by them. The wheelhouse (plate, cells, inner wall, band, funnel, mast and wheel glued into one) is not glued down because it is the way in; lift it straight up with both hands under the edge of its roof, never by the funnel or the mast.
Shopping list
What to buy for it
| Item | Qty | Price each | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shared supply MEAN WELL GST280A20-C6P | 1 | €93.80 | Shop |
| Mains cord C13, 2 m, one per supply (not in the supply's box) | 1 | €3.60 | Shop |
| Supply output lead Molex 215328-1061 | 1 | €5.20 | Shop |
| XT60 pigtails, 5 + 5 pack (one pair per blade) | 1 | €11.09 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Wago 221-412 (2-way), single pieces: 4 per blade (red+fuse, fuse+white, black+black, blue alone) | 16 | €0.55 | Shop |
| Wago 221-415 (5-way), single pieces: 4 for the bus + 2 per extra supply | 4 | €0.80 | Shop |
| ELNONE board plug, 2 pack (one per blade) | 2 | €8.56 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| JZK 5015 USB fans, 4 pack (blade heads + 4 base intake fans) | 2 | €13.61 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Fuse holders, 5 pack (blades) | 1 | €6.82 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| 5 A fuses, 10 pack | 1 | €6.75 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Keystone couplers, 10 pack | 1 | €14.36 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Patch 0.25 m, 10 pack | 1 | €12.85 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Patch 2 m, 5 pack | 1 | €11.09 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Switch Cudy GS105U 5-port | 1 | €13.01 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| USB charger 50 W, 5 ports | 2 | €9.52 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| OULARA COB USB strip 2 m (model glow) | 1 | €21.17 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| OULARA COB USB strip 1 m (on the inside of the cream liner in the wheelhouse, one per half, the liner glows behind the windows) | 2 | €14.11 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| M3 screws, 300 pcs | 1 | €14.05 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Translucent PETG 1 kg (eSUN transparent orange) | 1 | €12.37 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Opaque PETG 1 kg spool (eSUN black, budget; sold as a 4 kg bundle) | 12 | €9.07 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Total, without boards | €439 | ||
Prices with VAT as shown in October 2026. Shipping, glue and the boards are not included. Also not counted, if you do not own them: a multimeter (about €8.56) and a power strip (about €15.12).
Budget black PETG.
Drives: every board keeps the drive its laptop came with (system only), so there is nothing to buy. A board bought without one needs a 256 GB M.2 2280 drive (approx. €56). Optional, not in the total: one shared disk of 1 TB or more for the render manager's shared folder, on one laptop board, in its own M.2 slot, or in a USB case (approx. €19) on the base floor. Reuse an old one, or buy a 1 TB M.2 2280 drive for approx. €136–146. Drive prices are approximate (October 2026): check before buying.
No printer yet?
To print it at this size: 12.2 kg of PETG. Add 10% for waste and test pieces and that is 14 spools of 1 kg, approx. €196–266 with the PETG below (the shopping list above already includes filament). Print time, estimated: about 655 h with the standard 0.4 mm nozzle (Ender-3 V3 SE class), 407 h with a 0.6 mm nozzle.
Print times are slicer estimates (OrcaSlicer) and may vary by ±15 %.
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Printers that take every part (bed 220 × 220 mm or more): Creality Ender-3 V3 SE (€169) · Bambu Lab A1 (€259) · Bambu Lab P1S (€379)
PETG: Elegoo PETG Pro, 1 kg (€13.99/kg) · Bambu PETG Basic, 1 kg with spool (€18.99/kg)
Prices as shown on each shop's own page in October 2026. Shipping and the final VAT are added at checkout.