I’d say print a Marvin! This one came out great btw: https://www.3dhubs.com/talk/thread/bronzefill-marvin-0 24 
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+1!
Thought this was an interesting print, someone said jewelry would be a good thing to try but obviously needed a geek edge on that.
Left is after first go at sanding, right is straight after I got it off my print bed. I have no idea why the left looks so orange! It’s starting to shine but its not quite that golden.
Layer height 0.15m
Nozzel .4m e3d v6 hotend on prusa i3
Hey there,
i’ve just printed my initials “MB” in Bronzefill, Copperfill and Glowfill. All are from Colorfabb. I have ordered 2x the special sample pack once with bronze and once wiht copper, then used glowfill for the background and stability and the metal filaments for the optics. I sanded the metal parts, brushed them with brass (either dremel on low speed or brass wool both work) and polished them with standard metal polisher for cars, for a little more shine i applied a thin coat of metallic laquer wax. The “B” is with Copperfill, the “M” with Bronzefill.
Sadly the samples are very tiny (and i misscalculated), thats why i have planned too less upper solid layers and thats why you see these little bumps on the outer surface. However the “scratches” on the bronze part are intended. I’ll try to get the Copper one to corrode and create that green patina that everyone knows from the statue of liberty for example.
Very cool design, did you swap Filament mid way or print too parts and glue together? Yes I was shocked at sample pack size, but I think that’s because I came from a faberdashery sample pack of 10m each! I think the 4-5m colorfabb samples were good to get an idea or the colours. Also thanks for top tip about copper I didn’t realise they had a sample pack for that! Although probably need a steel hotend first!
I glued the parts with standard glue. If you live in germany it’s called “PATTEX kraftkleber”, but i guess every standard glue or a hot glue gun will work. Printing the letters with dual extrusion wouldn’t work that good because then you have a hard time working on the metal parts, also i don’t know if the polish would affect the Glowfill.
I have a bowden setup so the sort samples are even less, due too the heavy weight 40g of the filament comes down to 3,8-4m of which i can use ~3,3m for copper, i think bronzefill was a little lighter.
All filaments print well with a brass nozzle, just make sure to not go too slow (especially if you use 3mm filament) as the heat will rise through the filament and maybe even melt it on higher points of the extruder. I used 35mm/s with 1,75mm filament. Btw if you have glowfill make the parts solid, that makes the parts shine longer and stronger.
If you have any other questions feel free to contact me, i even have tested a little woodfill, ninjaflex etc.
-Marius
I will have to give this a go with the lettering. I have just used random super glue previously and works well so far. Lucky I have direct extruder so used as much as possible before buying spools. Been going at 50 or 60 as my default speed so seems good so far!
Nice, as i had just such a small sample i didn’t want to risk anything with speed. If you have some CAD software available just take a screenshot of some text from word on letter size 250 or so. Select the text type you want and redraw it in the software, it’s not that difficult.
Simplify3d has this feature implemented, but it doesn’t make smooth curves, instead the letters have very much tiny corners as the picture that i took for that was an upscaled word text, it comes from the pixels.
Good luck and let me know about your results.
