Infill for Headlight Brick

[idlemarvel]

I often use the headlight brick (Brick, Modified 1 x 1 with Headlight) in my micro builds to act as a small window frame, for example. It's okay but you can see the round hole on the other side, like a ship's portal, with whatever coloured brick is behind it. I have designed a simple 3D printed filler that will fill the window frame (or the "portal") with the colour of your choice. It is just a simple rectangular block, 3.2 mm x 4.6 mm x 6.8 mm. It doesn't interfere with the anti-stud at the bottom or back of the brick. It is designed to be a snug fit so it won't drop out by accident but not too tight so it doesn't stress the brick and can be easily removed. To remove them I use a pin or other small pointed object to prise the filler out. I print three at a time with sprue in between, you could obviously do more, only limited by your 3D printer print-bed. 

Here's what the 3D printed output looks like (with one filler removed from the sprue) with red filler in a white headlight and black filler in a tan headlight.

I hope this sort of thing doesn't offend the purists but it doesn't seem much different to using stickers IMO.

[Johnny1360]

That is a great solution, I would probably have just cut a piece of colored paper, or cardboard of some sort but I think your method is more elegant.