Unfortunately you can no longer get the 16V (turbo) and 20V turbo badges. I would therefore like to try to scan the badges and reprint them on a 3D printer. However, I only have the turbo here, but not the 20V and 16V. If the results are presentable, I will make them public as an STL. I hope someone here is actually interested. Here are my first attempts
I finally got a 16V sign today. I immediately scanned this and printed it out. I think the result is not bad. A little varnish and polish and it can no longer be distinguished from the original. NOnly the metalization gives me a headache. I don't want to store so many toxic chemicals at home. If you want to try it yourself, here are the links to Thingiverse.
Those look great! I've seen all the videos of metal coating that have cropped up on the usual youtube channels, and I came to the same conclusion. I'm not happy to store all the bits and I'd add that the process looks unreliable also.
I have to ask, what's the scanner you have there it looks perhaps Pi based?
It`s the openscan mini. You can either buy a complete kit or build all the parts yourself. The whole thing is an open source project here from Halle in Germany. All you need is a few printed parts, an LED ring, a Raspberry Pi 4, 2 stepper motors + drivers and a camera. The Arducam with 16Mpix is used here. But any other camera that the Raspberry supports will also work. The larger version of the scanner also works with a smartphone or a normal camera.
Thanks for that link! I'll take a look. I had planned to go down the kinect route, but I think given the results you have got, photogrammetry seems the way to go for smaller parts
The badges dismantle, so it is possible to paint the flash on the badge whatever colour you like, although the non-LE numbers and letters are chrome effect.
There are firms around who do vacuum deposition chrome on plastics.
16VT and X1/9 1500
We must all do our part for the planet. I unplugged a row of electric cars that nobody was using.
