Paint Bottle Holders (for Hand Made Modern 2 fl oz Acrylics from Target) by mrfochs

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

I live within walking distance of a Target and have found their craft acrylic's to be decent enough for model painting and weathering. The 2 fl oz bottles are a good size but don't fit any of the other paint holders I have found on here (for Testors, Vellejo, or others). Most of the designs are also very heavy and require far more filament and time than is needed for simply organization and storage.
I decided to go about designing something that could be printed with no supports, with minimal waste, yet look good and allow for different applications. The result is this design. Printing the pieces on their "back," you can get away without any supports. The Z-shape gives adequate support at the bottom and top 1/3 of the bottle, and the cut away design means the majority of the bottle can be seen (and as a result, you can quickly see what color each bottle is).
The added benefit of this design is that they can be stacked/stepped once filled so I can hide lesser used colors or back-up supply while main colors are easily visible. The large back wall is also designed to allow for easy drilling or modification pre-slice for mounting holes at spacing as needed.
Files uploaded are for 1-6 bottles. For Five or less bottles, the pieces can be printed on beds with 220mm or less in x or y (designed this way due to popularity of the new Ender 3, but beware, it JUST fits if you have your endstops properly set up as seen in one of the pictures). Longer runs could be made my merging a few files together but note that warping of the first few layers would become major concern. I also uploaded an STL of the holder without any cutaway if you wish to scale and use for other paint bottles, and an STL of the paint bottles themselves to allow for modeling other holders or spacing as needed/wanted.
Enjoy and Happy Printing!