You might remember a couple months ago when Otto Koponen announced several upgrades he had 3-D printed for his Kaiju Composer “King Ghidorah”, and I expressed interest in having a badge & spools for Mothra. Well, Otto’s reply was basically “OK, on it’s way“, but no request for my address or other information, so I figured it might happen someday, but probably not soon. But it was certainly on the “soon” side, because Otto had somehow gotten my address and today the package arrived at my door.
Sweet baby gravy, these 3D prints look *good*. My hands-on experience with 3D printing is practically nonexistent, so I’m sorta used to thinking in terms of ridgy, rough-finished, overly thick and fragile plastic when I think of 3D printing, and that ain’t these. These parts look like they came straight out of a factory.
Mothra, Queen of the Kaiju Composers! :D
Countersunk brass screw points for attaching the ribbon – now that’s an elegant, very survivable and re-usable solution!
Time for a Queso Break! Mmmmm, queso!
Ooh, lookit them pretty badges all lined up! :D
The personalized IBM badge is a nice touch…
Beautiful 3-D printed items – those personalized badges are really swell. Do you know what material he printed the spools in?
That I don’t know. Otto’s thinking about maybe releasing the stl files, though – I’m sure the package would include the media type if he does. It’s an interesting texture on them, a bit like light crinkle paint. Pebbly.
Thanks! The spools are printed by JLC3DP in PA-12 Nylon using a commercial MJF printer which fuses one layer of powdered nylon at a time. It produces very tough parts with excellent surface finish. Cost per spool is a about $4 + tax and shipping which I think isn’t too bad considering the quality compared to traditional 3d prints. Great option for proprietary spools like this.
LOVE that Aldine Roman. This looks like a fine printed book circa 1800.