3d Printed Display Stands

Since acquiring a 3d printer I’ve been applying it to pretty much every problem I can think of. Recently, I considered the fact that I’ve got a huge number of Bionicle sets stuck in their canisters that I’d love to display. Lacking shelves or the ability to put any up (landlords don’t allow drilling holes in walls to mount shelves), I took to Solidworks and designed stands that could be put up with command strips to put the sets on display all the same. Several weeks later (some other projects got in the way), I’ve gotten through the Glatorian, the main sets that I wanted to display.

https://i.imgur.com/bMoQixC.jpg

Detail of one stand, vacationed by the Vorox for the benefit of the camera:
https://i.imgur.com/FnEGCa2.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/dJ3rK4w.jpg

Each stand consists of three parts: a disk, arm, and foot.
https://i.imgur.com/JJ03YJO.jpg

The arm and disk are printed in black PETG plastic, while the disk is made of semi-transparent PETG to allow the ‘tri-hexagon’ infill structure to shine through.

The arm and disk are glued together, but the arm sticks into the foot without needing any glue.
https://i.imgur.com/mJND7Ha.jpg

I’m thinking of re-designing the stand based on my experience with this first batch to print another set for the 2015 Toa and Protector sets.

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These stands are great, but who’s in the middle of the dislpay??? I don’t recognize it and it’s driving me nuts.

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In the middle is an old Iron Tribe Glatorian MOC of mine named Mistral. I designed her to be feasible as a set and hence she doesn’t as look out of place among actual sets to me as she might to others.

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dude you could make some mad shekels selling these tbh

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I’m looking into it, but first I’m going to work out version 2.0 to solve some of the problems I encountered with the rather hurriedly-designed version 1.0.