Nixie tube for Ghostbusters Gizmo

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The Nixie tubes I found online were way out of my budget, so why not create something I could print myself? I chose clear PLA - although it's called clear, it's more translucent. The printed tubes fit perfectly and aren't meant to be highly accurate, but they serve as decent placeholders for the real thing. From a distance, I'd say they're good enough. Using a gold paint marker, I added the "8"s to the tubes. I used silver and gold paint pens to mark up the PCB and actual components on the disk capacitors and daughter board.