Cardboard to plastic
February 4, 2011 12:14 PM   Subscribe

What's the best way of turning a cardboard art project model into plastic?

I have a ~80x20x20 cm cardboard model made of rectangular boxes, nothing tricky. It's made out of cardboard, and it's old. I'd love to have the same thing made into plastic.

Where do I start? Where can I go? Who can I ask?
posted by devnull to Media & Arts (4 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: You're probably looking at buying sheets of some sort of plastic, cutting out parts and gluing them together. Anything else is likely to be prohibitively expensive.
posted by jon1270 at 12:34 PM on February 4, 2011


Best answer: If you can build a CAD model of the object, you can send it to i.materialise for 3D printing.
posted by msbutah at 1:22 PM on February 4, 2011 [1 favorite]


Best answer: There are also many other companies who offer this service.
posted by msbutah at 1:23 PM on February 4, 2011


Best answer: The guys at Glif blogged about their process in making it: Idea to Market in 5 Months: Making the Glif. Their post might have some good insights about how to go about it. Incidentally, the 3D printer they used was Shapeways.
posted by Alt F4 at 6:50 AM on February 5, 2011


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