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What colour base plastic?

Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 7:08 am
by mike1268
Printing tank parts has me thinking about what colour filament to use. Not so much for the finish, they look better painted, but for if the tank gets scratched. 3 colours come to mind.

Grey or same as the other tanks I have, just so it matches
Silver so if it scratches it looks like base metal
Deep red/red oxide, again so the scratch looks like it's hit a base layer

What do you guys use? What's your opinion?

Re: What colour base plastic?

Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 12:22 pm
by Will01Capri
Looks like i need to start looking into filaments now to support a 3D printer order. I like your thinking, interesting thought