Star Trek II TWOK Badge Kit by UnimatrixRed

Last crawled date: 3 years, 5 months ago

Here's a simple kit to make the badge from the classic Star Trek film The Wrath of Khan. It was remixed using the delta shape from bamakojeff here https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3566129 and the backplate from BiffTannen here http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1595386.
It is intened to use color swap for the plate insert colors but of course can also be painted.
I shortened the backplate to come closer to reference photos, and chose the delta for having more width at its bottom points. Made the ring separate so it and the delta can be printed without supports face down, but they can also be printed the other way using supports.
Since its printed face down, to give the delta a nice look I used the bottom infill pattern called archimedean chords. This took some tuning to get just the right 'squish' to it.
The metallic filament I used was CC3D Chocolate/rose gold silk PLA for the delta and ring, and CC3D antique gold for the backplate and insert. Use ivory or off-white, and gray for the other insert colors.
Display stand included fitting 8mmx3mm magnets but let me know if you need another size. Also included little tabs that can be used instead of magnets. I printed everything using a .4mm nozzle, but the 'TWOK' logo required using the 'detect thin lines' option in Prusaslicer (I don't know what its called in other slicers) and using modifiers to show the top-most lettering correctly. I'm sure a smaller nozzle would be perfect. Let me know if you run into problems.
Be careful gluing together as there isn't much connection area.