Poe Dameron chest box (with 3mm LED lights)

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I had a set of 3mm LED lights from a Christmas craft kit left over and wanted to create a Poe Dameron chest box with them. The box is made up of 4 parts: 1) The main box which has cutouts for all the lights, requiring me to drill them out a bit further because it was a tight squeeze for the 3mm lights but I wanted them to fit snugly. 2) The back cover that should slide on and snap into place. I had to make several modifications to get it to fit properly (Lesson Learned: If you want two things to fit together, don't print them to be the exact opposite size of each other - i.e., if you leave a 1mm gap, make sure the piece that slides in is less than a mm). This took me a few reprints and some frustration but it's done now. 3) The two white button covers. I printed these in white PLA and only allowed it to print 2 layers. Since my layer height is set at 0.3mm, this should work just fine. I primed the box, painted it, added aluminum foil to the back of the lights, then hot-glued all the lights in place to make sure they don't move around. I turned them on and snapped the back cover into place. I did use a marker to paint one of the lights green (the one that should be green). This was a fun project, and I hope you'll have fun too!