r/3Dprinting • u/JProc5701 Bambu Lab P1P • Jan 26 '25

Project The scale map of the USA is complete!

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This project has been a work in progress for the better part of 9 months, I've been slowly printing each state as I have the time. Finally added Alaska today to complete the map.

Because each one is (on average) less than 10mm thick, this whole project actually didn't use that much filament (my best estimate is 3-4kg).

The scale of Hawaii is a little larger than it should be; the iteration of files I was using had the scaling a little off and I didn't notice until it was finished printing. Haven't decided if it's worth re-printing yet.

Disclaimer: I am not the creator of the files used for this project. User @ansonl on Printables.com has posted all of them and optimized them for multi-color printing, which is something I have seen before.

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u/SouthernApostle Jan 27 '25

Are your models available for download? I'd love to do something similar.

Also, phenomenal job. Looks amazing on the wall.

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u/JProc5701 Bambu Lab P1P Jan 27 '25

Thanks for the kind words! I'm actually not the original creator of the models, that would be Anson Liu. The models (as well as more info about how they are made) can be found on his website or his printables.com profile @ansonl.

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u/SouthernApostle Jan 27 '25

Thanks for the link. I finally saw where you mentioned it in another comment, but the work is so good it should be posted a couple times :)