I made an advertisement strip for a car's license plate frame just for fun. I designed it in Autodesk Inventor and 3D-printed it. I'm quite happy with how it looks. Here it is:
![My finished advertisement sign](\Imgs\blog\reklamlist\finished.jpg)
It is attached to the car using the standard method, which I don't know the name of but I'm going to call them “clips". I couldn't find any blueprint or any dimensions of these but I did find an image of a license plate frame and scaled the image to around real size so that I could see at least how high and wide the clips should be. I also used that image for determining where to place the clips.
It later turned out that I didn't scale the image correctly and the clips therefore ended up slightly too far away from each other. To fix the problem I simply cut off parts of the clips so that they would fit in the holes. Some of them broke when I did that but the problem was fixed easily with super glue.
![3D-model of the clips on bottom of the sign](\Imgs\blog\reklamlist\clips.png)
![Picture of a license plate frame](\Imgs\blog\reklamlist\holeplacement.jpg)
The sign was too big to fit in the 3D-printer so I had to divide it into three parts. I assembled them by drilling two small holes on each side and then inserting glue and a short piece of steel wire. It became quite sturdy this way.
![The attachment mechanism](\Imgs\blog\reklamlist\pinsnholes.jpg)
I then painted the sign. First I painted the letters and flowers white to hide the plastic texture. Then I painted the rest with a nice metallic green color that we happened to have at home.
![Painting green](\Imgs\blog\reklamlist\painting.jpg)
And then it was done. It's not perfect because of the sloppy paint job and the visible cracks in between the pieces but I think it's still pretty good.