Some of my Favourite Prints of the Past Couple Months

Hey guys, as I haven't done a print of the month in a little while, I thought this week I'd just share with you all a few of the prints I'm most happy with from the past couple of months. If you follow me on Instagram (If not why not?!) you may have seen these before.

I'm going to split this post into tree sections; "Functional prints", "Projects" and "Just for fun".

Functional prints

Both of these prints are for the redecorating of our second room, which is currently in full swing. We both have new desks and have converted the space where my wife's old desk was into a workspace for projects!! I will definitely do a post with photos when the room is finished, but for now I have printed a couple of items to help keep the room nice and tidy. First we wanted to mount the Google Home Mini to the wall like we did in the bedroom, so I printed another "invisible" mount;

It looks great and keeps the speaker firmly in place and off the desk.

Secondly I wanted a better way of storing all my model paints, rather than just chucking them in a box like I have been doing, so I went into Fusion360 and designed myself a set of modular paint shelves with correctly sized recesses for Citadel paint pots.

So far I have printed 2 layers of shelves and put one up on the wall, I think they look great and the cats haven't knocked any off yet! If you wanted to print your own, I have put the files up on Thingiverse here.

And lastly, a simple business card holder, as I got myself some handy dandy Troez3D cards to hand out to strangers! More about those another time.

Projects

Chainmail!! How cool?! Do I really need to say any more?

OK fine, I started thinking about 3D printing chainmail, as you could print all the rings interlocked and I couldn't get the idea out of my mind. So I went and found an amazing file Roman13 had created here and printed two sheets.

It printed almost perfectly and once connected the two sheets behave as one large sheet of maille. Really feeling like trying to print an entire shirt, but who know how long that will take!

Just for fun!

here are some prints I did, just because I could... Some of them may get more of a mention in a future post, but for now I thought I just leave you with some nice pictures!

See you all next week!

Troez.

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