| New Plastic Colours? [message #59982] Thu, 10 January 2013 18:42 UTC |
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First off, not sure if this is in the right place. If not, sorry!
Now then, on to business. I was wondering if we're going to see more plastic colours come out in addition to the red, pink, etc. we already have. I'm personally hoping, looking, and asking for plastics in shades designed to look like they belong with our three stainless steel finishes - steel, bronze, and gold.
The reason I ask is that for many designs, it's simply not practical or possible to design the entire product out of stainless steel, either for price reasons or material reasons. However, often these different parts are meant to go together (like a bead on a pendant). Yes, we can spray paint our WSF plastic to look like these finishes, but it never matches up exactly. I personally would love to see plastic finishes that are as close as possible in shade to stainless steel finishes. Or even go a step further and add a new variety of plastic material with bronze, gold, and steel powder mixed in (I'm not sure if that's doable with 3D printing, however). I know that many designers who make things 'the old-fashioned way' will, if they want a cheap prop that looks like bronze, often use a clear resin plastic and mix in some brown colouring and bronze powder. I'd love to see something like that available on Shapeways.
Just my two cents, anyhow.
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| Re: New Plastic Colours? [message #60017 is a reply to message #59982 ] Fri, 11 January 2013 08:25 UTC |
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I also like to know if there is a chance to get more colors:
like (colors normally most people wanted or? Because of the standard color range: red, green, yellow, -blue- beside black and white)
green tone
yellow tone
brown/ beige tone
and some special wishes... (I think with no real chance...)
flesh color??
and grey again (because alumid is to brittle)
dark blue
cu
Ingo
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| Re: New Plastic Colours? [message #60024 is a reply to message #60017 ] Fri, 11 January 2013 11:53 UTC |
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GLOW IN THE DARK PLZ KTHX
-Bathsheba
http://bathsheba.com
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| Re: New Plastic Colours? [message #60162 is a reply to message #60024 ] Mon, 14 January 2013 02:12 UTC |
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Ooooh, that's a good idea too. That never even occurred to me.
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| Re: New Plastic Colours? [message #60165 is a reply to message #59982 ] Mon, 14 January 2013 03:16 UTC |
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I'd die for glow n the dark - but who knows if its even possible?
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| Re: New Plastic Colours? [message #60168 is a reply to message #60165 ] Mon, 14 January 2013 03:56 UTC |
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It's already available in spools for home printers.
More to the point, glow ceramic glaze is a thing. http://www.glo-net.com/ceramic.html
I don't understand what everyone is doing all day that they think is more important than this.
Can I get a witness?!
-Bathsheba
http://bathsheba.com
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| Re: New Plastic Colours? [message #60184 is a reply to message #60168 ] Mon, 14 January 2013 13:45 UTC |
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Someone should modify a WSF laser machine to include a printhead from a color printer so it can switch between printing the colors and lasering and provide the most awesome full color strong and flexible material ever.
Kaetemi
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| Re: New Plastic Colours? [message #60275 is a reply to message #60184 ] Tue, 15 January 2013 23:39 UTC |
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I guess the zcorp guys already thought about that - but the inkjet dyes do not exactly like being torched by a laser...
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