Distant Screws II Challenge Coin

Heads: Logo + Distant Screws II Jan\Apr 3307 53.2K (light years)

Tails: A star for Evelyn's Light + The expedition route (Ross310 -> Evelyn's Light -> Colonia -> Qama)

About

• Evelyn's Story
• JelloWiggler's Frontier Forums Thread
  • Where FDev gets involved
  • FDev Delivers
• Expedition Page on EDSM
• Evelyn's Light Position on EDSM

ReadMe

A how-to for printing the 3D LS DS II Challenge Coin for anyone that was on the 2021 Distant Screws II Expedition.

The front-side features the classic LS Logo, the expedition name, dates and the waypoint distances traveled.

The backside features the four points of the journey (ROSS310-EVELYNS LIGHT-COLONIA-QAMA) and a star to honor Evelyn Faye Roy.

Printing Suggestions

    Scale to 60mm x 60mm x 8mm (or 10mm)
    Super Quality

1) With trees: On an edge - will require sanding and clean up. 2) In halves:

    Duplicate the STL on the bed
    Sink both below the bed to 1/2 the Z width (-4mm or -5mm)
    Flip one of the faces
    Print
    Glue together
    Sand edge as needed with 220g and 500+

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Created by RabbiBob 3/1/2021 w/ Blender 2.9.x

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• Download: Zip file 4.5MB

Directions

3D Printing

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Sanding

• Lightly sand the edges and any surface you can without damaging the raised items. You can see in some of the final coins the ones where a combination of sanding and primer worked well and others that didn't during testing.

Painting

• Someday I'll buy an airbrush kit. Until then, fun with aerosol cans!
• Requirements:
  • Krylon Sandable Primer
  • Gloss Black spray paint
  • Blue acrylic paint
  • Metallic Silver spray paint
  • Something to fit under the coin to keep if off the resting surface (washer, nut, etc)

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Primer

• Do two separate coats of prime where the first coat is close to a dusting.
• Second coat should fill in a lot of the printer lines

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Black Coat

• Apply a single shiny black coat

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Blue Highlights

• Lightly apply blue acrylic paint to various raised areas. I used a toothpick to do the coins. There are one or two green coins in the bunch, however blue seemed to be the best choice.

Silver Dusting

• Lightly apply a dusting of silver. The goal is to try and let some of the gloss black poke through. Your call on the final outcome. In my batch, the 13 coins ran a range between almost full silver vs a moderate dusting.

Visting

Arriving solo at 6AM on a cold winter morning

Hanging out with Rocky during the group rendezvous.

One last look at Evelyn's Light before departing the system.