This is the first time I've ever had a 3D model printed out and I was pretty pleased with the results This was a gift I made for a friend.

Like everyone, I have dozens of spare USB cables at home as they seem to come with everything, so I decided to put one of them to use. I cut off the end and soldered a resistor and LED on to the end to turn it into a coloured USB light. This then went inside the helmet to light it up.

So here are the pics.

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The WSF pieces temporarily blu-tacked together just so I could get a rough idea that everything printed ok and if I needed to sand anything down. Luckily, I didn't need to


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The helmet was then superglued together and then I painted it with black and copper to give it an antique copper look. I also added extra bits inside the helmet to prepare for the USB light.


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I then put in the USB cable I put together earlier and then mounted everything onto a base that I painted black


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All finished. I plugged in the USB to light the LED and then took a picture next to my phone so you can get an idea of the scale.


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Of course, you've got to have a dark night shot

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[Updated on: Thu, 26 April 2012 22:02 UTC]