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I used one full spool of black PLA filament from faberdashery and half a spool of white PLA filament from the ultimaker store
In fact I made to signs:
the black one you saw on my previous post and another golden one (RAL1036) for the inside of the store:
The backlit sign is about 3.5cm thick and the golden one only 1cm
The most expensive part was the LEDs and it's power adapter
I bought 5 meters because I was unsure of the needed size. I only needed about 3 meters so I used the remaining LEDs to make another sign with my company logo (pictures will come as soon as I have time to place it on a wall)
I used some kind of lacquer coating to hide the joint between each pieces and to make the surface as smooth as possible
Then I sprayed about 6 of each color paint spray. (I made 3 or 4 layers)
I think (hope) it will last for long as the sign is inside a gallery and not exposed outside !
@AaronAlai, I am pretty sure I saved money by doing this myself because my brother received a few proposals for about 3000 euros and I only spent about 300 euros !
Also it took me a full week to print, glue, paint and illuminate !
Here is a job I made for my brother's store.
He needed a backlit sign for the front of the store so I printed it !
The P is 47cm high and was made of 8 pieces.
all the other letters except the M just fitted the build area
I used almost 3 meters of leds to make the backlit
By the way it is in brussels. Gallerie louise. If someone want to see it in real !
I finally tried the galaxy blue filament from faberdashery along with the aurora UV active
Here is the cryptex I made
And here is the same one under UV light
This aurora filament is looking nice !
I ordered the same day from faberdashery and colorfabb
both have a very short lead time.
faberdashery shipped my order the same day and colorfabb on the next day
and here is a bigger version printed at
layer height 0.12
shell thickness 0.8
speed 50
I simply applied a decimate filter in blender and then a subdivision surface
I really need to smooth this model but I am not very good at sculpting !
My last print is based on a scan of a Einstein bottle holder.
Not really a scan but I used agilesoft photoscan to generate a mesh based on 52 pictures of the model.
here is the model along with a small print in ABS with a CTC printer (not so bad printer by the way)
and a UHU stick holder printed really fast on my Ultimaker original. I needed something to hold the UHU stick near the printer
I am currently printing only the head at a bigger scale and I will post the result here
If anyone is interested I can share the model !
Ho and now I only print on cold glass with UHU and the PLA stick very well.