Here's a couple of options on making custom badges...
For a 2-D badge you can design something and have it cut on a laser machine
out of, say, 3/8" aluminum or even plastic. If you're steady with a Dremel,
you could bevel the edges or add other 3-D touches, then paint it or have it
anodized. That would be a pretty inexpensive way to go, you could probably
make badges for under $15 each.
Another option if you want to spend more money (and get a cooler piece) is
rapid prototyping technology, like stereo lithography or fuse deposition
modeling. Design something in Form-Z or another 3-D program and it'll build
a sample out of epoxy resin, ABS, and so on. I've never had anything made
this way so I have no idea how much it would cost... worth doing some
research on, though!
Check out http://conceptual-reality.com/ for some basics on rapid
prototyping... that's one of many sites you can find with a search.
- Alex
> From: mark janke <sftvboy@yahoo.com>
>
> Unless you buy a badge thats already made it will cost
> you a fortune to make a nice 3 dimensional plastic
> badge, I already check that out. For something like
> the V-6 emblem on the newer Dakotas could easily be
> $200 a piece. I wound up yanking off my V-6 emblems
> and since I had mounting holes behind it I had some
> metal custom cut and had a custom font printed and cut
> out in vinyl at a local shop for about $20, the metal
> another $10. All I did was spell the word DAKOTA.
>
> If you're set on getting a 3 dimensional emblem find
> one from another line of truck perhaps? Have you
> considered the gigantic DAKOTA letters from the last
> generation body style?
>
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