Gel Nail Painter

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My wife was attempting to prepaint her fake nails she'd gotten recently and thought it would be simpler (and from watching videos online it appeared this way) to prepaint them before attaching. This way, she could easily create different designs for both hands. After watching a couple of videos on how they did it, the idea struck me to use my painting/priming station I use for miniatures (which I'd remixed to utilize bottle caps instead of pill bottles). You can find this design here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3864099. We attached the nails to the bottlecaps with a bit of sticky tack, but it was a bit more awkward and there were only 6 spots instead of 10. I wanted to create something specifically designed for nails, so this is my first attempt at doing so. So far, my wife likes the design, it seems to fit her nails well and has enough space between them to work effectively. She just uses a little bit of sticky tack on the bottom of the nail and sticks them on the stand, then paints them and applies her gel polish, and it's small enough to fit under her UV Light.