Jamr
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Rc's and 3DP's go together like beer and football. We love making our own parts!
Do you love making scale parts to make your RC look better?
Let's show em off!
Show us the body stickers you had originally and then the 3d printed parts you made yourself after installation.
Show what the sticker looked like, before you peeled it off and the printed part installed after the print. If you care to add details, add some instruction and pics of the process.
I will start.
I wanted some good looking lights for my 3s Infraction.
Unfortunately I could not find any that I liked so I made my own. I bought some POLO Creations but I was not happy with them. They only had two LED's in each light which you could easily see the LED's through the lens. I wanted something more diffused. I also did not like the mount as you had to drill a hole in the car body for a screw and I don't like seeing screws on my car body.
Here are the original stickers.
This light has many angles to it which made it pretty difficult to get right.
I wanted something similar to this that just glowed red.
First I cut the body out leaving the flared area to mount the lens to.
Using some black PLA I designed and made some back cans for the red LED light strip and glued it into the cans.
Then I used some red translucent PETG I designed and printed some lenses.
I did some testing and found that putting some pryamids on the back side of the lens diffused the light even more.
I had to make them several mm deep to keep the LED's away from the lens to diffuse the light more.
The lenses fit flush to the body. Getting these angles right was a pain.
Here is another angle showing how flush they are.
Here is the interior of the body with the cans installed.
And finally, what the lights look like illuminated.
One problem I did not anticipate was the light bleeding into the lexan body and reflecting out the first angle it runs into.
I will try to pain the edge of the cut area in the light fixture black and see if that works to cut out this light bleed.
I will get some night shots soon and post them.
Next; the Headlights.
Do you love making scale parts to make your RC look better?
Let's show em off!
Show us the body stickers you had originally and then the 3d printed parts you made yourself after installation.
Show what the sticker looked like, before you peeled it off and the printed part installed after the print. If you care to add details, add some instruction and pics of the process.
I will start.
I wanted some good looking lights for my 3s Infraction.
Unfortunately I could not find any that I liked so I made my own. I bought some POLO Creations but I was not happy with them. They only had two LED's in each light which you could easily see the LED's through the lens. I wanted something more diffused. I also did not like the mount as you had to drill a hole in the car body for a screw and I don't like seeing screws on my car body.
Here are the original stickers.
This light has many angles to it which made it pretty difficult to get right.
I wanted something similar to this that just glowed red.
First I cut the body out leaving the flared area to mount the lens to.
Using some black PLA I designed and made some back cans for the red LED light strip and glued it into the cans.
Then I used some red translucent PETG I designed and printed some lenses.
I did some testing and found that putting some pryamids on the back side of the lens diffused the light even more.
I had to make them several mm deep to keep the LED's away from the lens to diffuse the light more.
The lenses fit flush to the body. Getting these angles right was a pain.
Here is another angle showing how flush they are.
Here is the interior of the body with the cans installed.
And finally, what the lights look like illuminated.
One problem I did not anticipate was the light bleeding into the lexan body and reflecting out the first angle it runs into.
I will try to pain the edge of the cut area in the light fixture black and see if that works to cut out this light bleed.
I will get some night shots soon and post them.
Next; the Headlights.
How funny, I've literally been working on (this week) a tail light design but for the 6s infraction. I have some cob led's coming in the mail . Here's a couple of my prototypes
