Dairy Queen Sign for Plasticville Frosty Bar V2

prusaprinters

<p>This is version 2 of my Plasticville replacement sign. My original sign is at:</p><p>https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/82494</p><p>That sign is mostly of the same shape and format of the original Frosty Bar Sign. That sign used a font that was only an approximation of the actual font used on the actual sign. This sign is more true to the actual Dairy Queen sign. I modified my OpenSCAD program to use the "surface" command. That command is extremely powerful.</p><p>I found a photo of an actual Dairy Queen sign. Then I found a photo of the words "DAIRY QUEEN" in the correct font. Then I found a photo of a Dairy Queen ice cream cone.</p><p>I used those photos along with the surface command to make a pretty reasonable representation in OpenSCAD of an actual Dairy Queen sign.</p><p>I rendered it and then input it into the Prusa slicer. I then laid the sign flat on the printbed. I had to use supports under the cone since it does not touch the printbed.</p><p>Along with the OpenSCAD code, you need the files "DQ_1950s_logo - edited.png" and "Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cone Sign - edited.png". I edited each of those images to be black and white which work perfectly with the "surface" command in OpenSCAD.</p><p>I printed in white PLA but you can use any color as the sign will have to be painted in any case.</p><p>There is a photo of the new sign on my layout along with in-process photos as I was building the sign. There is a photo of a Dairy Queen sign taken in Ottawa. There is one really nice model of a Dairy Queen on the HO layout of the North County Model Railroad Society (NCMRS) in Oceanside, CA.</p><p>The black and white photo is from the 1954 yearbook of my hometown, Aliquippa, PA. This DQ was a popular place in the 50's and 60's. The building is still there but now houses an architect.</p><p>More details on my 3D Print web page:</p><p><a href="http://www.silogic.com/trains/3D%20Prints.html#Frosty_Bar">http://www.silogic.com/trains/3D%20Prints.html#Frosty\_Bar</a></p><p>My layout web page: <a href="http://www.silogic.com/trains/layout.html">http://www.silogic.com/trains/layout.html</a></p>