Seattle Seahawk Plaque

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This is way easier to make than it looks, I promise! Read instructions for colorful prints! Instructions If you just want a one color, as is plaque, just hit print. Otherwise, read on! For this print, I used 3mm ABS. I have white, blue, and green. (Actually, the green was PLA, but we'll get into that in a moment...) For multiple colored prints on a machine with ONE nozzle, here's how to do it: Using a print software with a visual output g-code editor (As seen in Repetier-Host), count the layers from the bottom up. Start printing with your white, then when it gets to the numbered layer where the hawk head starts, pause the print. Now that the printing is paused, move your print nozzle, or hot end, so that it is not above your print causing melting or oozing plastic all over it. Now remove your white filament and replace it with blue. (Make sure to do an extrusion before continuing to print until the color of filament coming out begins to change!) Now that a new color is coming through, go ahead and hit continue and repeat the cylce for all other colored parts. For the eye, it is raised higher than everything else, so if you have a good "seahawks green" it should be the same steps as above. However, if you're like me and only had a sample of PLA green, which doesn't work at the same settings as ABS, here's what I did: Take a little shotglass of acetone and put a slice of your colored PLA in it. The PLA won't melt, but the color should come off after a little while. Once the acetone has become the color of your PLA, go ahead and take the PLA out and clip some pieces of white ABS in. (See where I'm going with this?) The ABS should melt into goop and take on the color of your PLA. You can add more PLA or ABS to get the color just right. Then take a paper clip, toothpick, paintbrush, whatever and spread it on your Seahawk eye! Done and done.