Recycling machine display model for EtaVolt

An accurate display model of EtaVolt's recycling machine, 3D printed with its chutes, screens and branding, plus the green container that houses it.

Client: EtaVolt
Service: Scale Models
Built for: Handling and repeated demonstrations
Fabrication time, after design approval: 4 to 6 weeks

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What we brought

What we can do
We model the details that make your machine recognisable
Chute trays, screens, vents, panel lines and green accent lines are all there, and the container carries the EtaVolt name.
How we look after you
We think about how your model is shown, not only how it looks
We built the container too, and set the display on a gloss black base under a clear cover.
What you get
Your product, explained on the spot
With the container off, visitors see the whole machine; with it on, the chute trays still show through the side.

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The finished piece
The machine inside, seen from the open end.
Under its clear cover, ready for display.
The intake end, with its slope and vents.
Chute trays, screens and vents, all modelled in.
Chute trays seen through the container wall.
The EtaVolt name across the ribbed container wall.
The briefThe finished machine, seen from one end.
Build and assemblyThe EtaVolt name and the green accent line.

The build

How we built it

4 steps, from the brief to the finished piece. Pick a step to jump to it.

The brief

Step 1 of 4

What the model shows: The machine's exterior, with its chutes, screens, panels and vents
Also built: The branded container the machine sits in

At Additive Inn, our 3D printing studio in Singapore, we 3D printed a display model of EtaVolt's automated recycling machine and the container that houses it. It had to match the real exterior and stand up to handling and repeated demonstrations.

The finished white recycling machine model from one end: dark screens, two chute trays, green accent lines and the EtaVolt name, on a gloss black base — The finished machine, seen from one end.

Fabrication

Step 2 of 4

We 3D printed the machine's shell, making some modules as separate parts for sharper edges and a realistic drop-in look. Internal reinforcements kept the large flat panels from bending. The surfaces were filled, sanded and primed again and again until no print lines showed.

Build and assembly

Step 3 of 4

With the separate modules in place, the machine took its matt white finish. The green accent lines and EtaVolt logos went on in controlled layers, only once the surface was even, to keep the edges crisp and the proportions true.

Close-up of the EtaVolt name on the side of the white machine model, with a green accent line, a dark window and rows of vents — The EtaVolt name and the green accent line.

The final build

Step 4 of 4

On its own, the model shows the white modules, screens and chute trays in EtaVolt's colours and logos. With the container over it, it shows the finished unit, with the chute trays visible through the wall.

The green EtaVolt container model from its open end, with the white recycling machine visible inside, on a gloss black base — The machine inside, seen from the open end.

The details

The likeness rests on small things: chute trays, vents, panel lines, the green accent lines, and container openings that line up with the trays.

Chute trays, screens and vents, all modelled in.

Close-up of the green ribbed container wall with two rectangular openings, the white chute trays of the machine showing through them — Chute trays seen through the container wall.

The EtaVolt name across the ribbed container wall.

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Recycling machine display model for EtaVolt

What we brought

We model the details that make your machine recognisable

We think about how your model is shown, not only how it looks

Your product, explained on the spot

Gallery