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Introducing Homegrown3D’s representation of our favorite paintball marker: The AutoCocker!
Need a gift for your favorite paintball enthusiast or perhaps a new design for your paintball print farm? Adapted into 4 different uses: key chains, desk and shelf art, Christmas ornaments/hangers, and trophies.
This Paintball Artwork was created using SVG outlines, and designed with ease of 3D printing in mind. Created from an outline of a side feed Autococker, broken into layers and combined, then embossed and debossed from each other along with 3D shapes.
This is Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) optimized, meaning: quick to print, no supports needed, minimal material used, and great for print farming.
Note the detail and ease of printing achieved on the front pneumatics and hoses. When you print the design make sure you look at the pneumatic hosing details in your slicer preview to find the minimum scale for your nozzle size.
Get the Files!
Download the Autococker Artwork STL Files at Printables, or find the editable files on Tinkercad.
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Keep reading for information on parts, materials, and tools to make the designs.
Key Chains
Key chains have a loop for your key rings. Use either basic key rings or lobster clasps, bronze chains, jump rings, and a jump ring tool for a real high end look. Printing these in Sainsmart 92A TPU (currently out of stock of any good colors, affiliate link) gets a real nice gummy feeling and relatively easy to print at faster speeds in this basic shape.
Standard silver key rings without chains! Get them in 100 or 200 packs!
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Bronze key rings with chains and jump rings. At time of writing the bronzed chains are out of stock, silver color only. Looking on amazon there are several other bronze color options.
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Nice quality “lobster” clasps with swivel.
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This jump ring tool makes closing the loops so much easier! It’s essential if you want to do a lot of these. Should be helpful for other jewelry and fashion related items in the future too.
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Desk/Shelf Art
Displays the art on a stand. Printed in woodfill PLA, sanded and stained with a Polyurethane stain looks great! With our assortment of coming designs, there will be a nice collection of these for desks and displays. They are a great accent and table topper for product displays.
Our preferred Wood infused PLA. You can stain this and even sand it. We recommend a Polyurethane stain. Make sure you have a hardened nozzle for printing abrasives.
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The E3D Nozzle X is a quality hardened nozzle for printing abrasives. The Nozzle X has a non stick coating that makes printing sticky materials like PETG alot easier. It is a bit more expensive at $25-$35 a nozzle but easy to maintain and refurbish over long periods of time and worth it.
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Christmas Ornaments and Hangers
Bring paintball into the holidays! Autococker paintball Christmas ornaments are great sellers, make a great gift, and are a great reminder for the rest of the family of what kind of gifts to give you.
Ornament hanger hooks variety pack to match colors. Silver and gold options also available.
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This Sapphire Blue Silk PLA has been a real hit for us with products, especially listed on etsy.
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Trophies
There are two sizes of trophy bases on which you can use the autocockers for the topper. Customize the text in Tinkercad.
Overture Gold PETG does a good job for trophies. One of the better looking PETG’s we have found and the only shiny Gold PETG we have found.
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Silk PLA filament for trophies. This is sometimes picky to print, but it’s some of the best and most consistent Silk PLA we’ve had (print at 220C temp)
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