Bright Metallic Needed

[curious aardvark]

Problem solved :-)
Just got some copper and aluminium from www.3dexfilament.com here in the uk.
This stuff is probably about as good as it gets. It's like the reprapper stuf - using very fine powder for colourant. so no post processing necessary.
The copper, inparticular is just like a roll of thick copper wire.
This is indoors.

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You get a real shine in the sun, a bit too much in this pic for the camera on my tablet - but you get the idea. Very good stuff.

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I'll print some stuff out over the weekend. But having used the colorfabb stuff and spent what seems like hours sanding and polishing and losing a lot of fine detail - I think I'd use this in preference any day of the week :-)

[curious aardvark]

did a couple of nut & bolt sets.

Both together:

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Copper bolt next to copper pipe:

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Aluminium bolt on a large aluminium disc.

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So if you're in the uk and want a hassle free metallic filament - www.3dexfilament.com has the goods.
I've been looking for this stuff for over a year, good to find someone actually stocking it :-)