SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — House Ornament

Re: House Ornament

null@example.com (cckens) — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:19:58 +0000

Wonder if a little polyurethane spray would cut down on the chipping?

Re: House Ornament

null@example.com (IanJohnson) — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:48:20 +0000

The plastic probably needed prep, but I just jumped right in. I was impatient to see how it would look in something other than whitish monochrome. As a result the paint chips easily and it already needs a little touchup. I don't remember the brand, but I used an acrylic model paint from a hobby store.

Re: House Ornament

null@example.com (cmetzel) — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:23:00 +0000

Put it inside a snowglobe!

Re: House Ornament

null@example.com (cmetzel) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:07:24 +0000

Nice job Ian. What was the paint that you used? Anything needed to prep the ABS before painting?

Re: House Ornament

null@example.com (ysb) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:01:53 +0000

lot of work here... well done

Re: House Ornament

null@example.com (timp610) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:09:15 +0000

wow that is amazing work!

House Ornament

null@example.com (IanJohnson) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:46:53 +0000

My wife likes to collect ornaments on a house theme, so I made one of our house. This is almost, done, missing only 2 doors and 1 window.

I modeled it in Alibre, and used Agisoft Photoscan to capture the window boxes, which are printed separately in green. The window lites are printed 1 thread thick, 6 layers high and glued onto 2 layer squares of Crysta-Line Yellow. The ground plane is 100mmx90mm. The paint is a bit rough since it's my first time doing something like that, but I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.