Can you print over a print

[curious aardvark]

marker pens work quite well and the colour seesm to be sucked into the print.

But then I'm about as artistic as a fine arts graduate who thinks a pile of bricks is art :-)

[threedee4me]

thanks for the info on painting etc... can anyone reco a good paint pen or paints to buy? can I use a sharpie would that work well? thanks!

[curious aardvark]

marker pens work quite well. You tend to get a sort of pastel colour pallet though.

paint wise - standard model paints should work well as they are designed for plastic.

[threedee4me]

Thank you for the info once again!

[warkmal]

I've used Acrylic paint from the local hobby shop on both PLA and PETG and it worked well. And by worked well, I would say, it stuck to the print and appears to be fairly durable. I'm not an artist though, so the bad brush strokes are my fault not the paint: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:166431

[ralphzoontjens]

Also check out the work of Joris van Tubergen, he wrote Cura plugins that make the printer build up layers in a three-dimensional way such as in wave-patterns:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:75735
The man does good things for 3D printing anyway - www.rooiejoris.nl

[curious aardvark]

I'd like to see how he powered the ultimaker that got shipped while it was printing.
Clever that.

[djprinter]

If you want extremely durable paint, you could try disolving different color plastics and using the mixture as paint.