Hi
With COVID and all my family has really got into board games. I want to upgrade some of the cardboard tokens with shinny, smooth tokens like these. (see pic)
It’s tricky to match the quality of injection moulding with a 3D printer. If you have one available an SLA printer would definitely be the preferred option for these. @Tim has been doing some really neat prints lately with transparent resins on a Creality LD-002R.
Here’s video showing a really nice chess set printed with a resin printer:
To make pieces like above I would recommend using a resin printer similar to a Creality like Oliver linked you above, could produce a whole bunch of pieces quickly for very cheap in any size and colour you desire.
Theres lots of different ways to do image transfer onto resin plastics, so you can get an image onto your pieces, something I plan on exploring very soon as well. Currently, I would recommend transferring the image in a method similar to this and then gloss coating it with spray paint. Or you could produce stickers which you then clear coat over the top to seal them in with a nice finish.
Hope this helps, I plan to figure out the best way soon,
I’d explain in detail but All3DP covers this quite well already, following this with Tim’s post-processing guide should provide a much greater understanding of both how to create near-transparent prints, and how the hidden mechanics behind it work.
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