Mistborn Luthadel Shadowbox

Background

This shadowbox is heavily inspired by the artist Lark Anne Art and their piece they posted on Reddit. I've been staring at this as a background on my computer on and off for a year and thinking it work be a nice shadowbox, so I made it. It hasn't escaped my notice that this would look amazing with laser cut panels instead of 3D printed ones, particularly if each one was a different metal. I don't have the ability to do that but I'm including dxfs of the plates as well incase someone wanted to do so, if so please post a make I'd love to see it. The printed plates are 1mm thick but I have left 2mm for each slot, hopefully that would work for laser cut panels. If I needed to upload a variant with larger slots for a laser cutter happy to do so.

Hardware Required

• 3-7x M3 heatset inserts (M3x5x4mm, Voron spec)

  • 3 needed for the lid

  • 2 to attach to optional French cleat for wall mounting

  • 2 to attach the optional bumper for wall mounting

• 3x M3 x 40mm bolts

Printing Instructions

All parts should printed in the correct orientation. Plates are numbed back to front (plate 1 is rear). For plate 7 which has the jumping mistborn figures I found that a 0.4mm nozzle was too small to print them so I made an optional one which has no figures and then you can print the figures in resin and glue them on later. It looks like with a 0.2mm nozzle they would be printable but I do not have one to test. I would pay special attention to the infill patterns and direction for the bottom layers and I'd recommend for plates 6 and 7 making it so the nozzle lines go up and down the city towers and not diagonal. All of these parts were printed on my Voron v2.4 300mm but with the plates being 200x160mm and 220x52x181mm this should be printable on most machines except smaller format printers.

Materials

All materials are fine, these are a mix of PLA and ABS and I used Colorfabb copperfill PLA for the front frame.

Assembly

Insert the heatset inserts into the front frame and if using the French cleat then also the rear of the main box. Slide all the inserts into the main box. Attach the top piece to the front frame with 3x M3 screws then insert the frame from the front of the shadowbox making sure not to dislodge any of the plates.