Old Glory

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Just in time for the Fourth of July, and June 14 is Flag Day! This design looks great in both solid colors and translucent. The flanged frame is designed to be open so that if the Union and stripes are printed in translucent, you can backlight it. Maybe mount it in a panel on a box. For that, add two thin acrylic panels (1/16" x 150 x 84 mm front and 1/16" x 148.8 x 80 mm back) to fully capture it all. There is a second frame without a mounting flange which is intended for solid colors. Everything fits together very well with interlocking tabs. It's a bit of a puzzle, but that will be the fun part. The fit gets better as your job of trimming brims and so on improves. There's a lot of trimming to do, but it's straightforward. The frame can be tricky to print. It's designed for a 200mm square bed. It was originally 125% bigger to just barely squeeze in, but the corners of the frame and the six red stripe pieces always curled up. Printing with and without supports worked, I preferred no supports because while there may be more trimming, for fit-up, missing material is better than extra material. I don't think you can go much smaller on the individual white stars, but the blue Union field can be backlit with white light. High-quality translucent material is recommended. Happy Fourth of July, America!