Raising a penquin army

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After printing dozens of trees and snowman, I started working on an army of penquins. I gave them a classy teal top hat to go with their tuxedo.

I started printing the bottoms, I decided to do a multi color print here so I wouldn't have to glue on feet. This adds a lot of time and add some plastic waste due to the color swaps. For this particular print, it was about 4 hours for these bottoms with 41 color swaps. After the feet are done, it's all single color from there. This reduces the waste considerably when you are only swapping colors for a few layers. If the color changes persisted all the way up to the top of the model, the costs in time and material would have skyrocketed.

After printing the bottoms, it is off to printing the top portion.

In this case, I printed the body, then the belly as two different prints and super glued the white belly on. This saves a lot of time and material, and is super easy and has no visual artifacts. These penquins are posable, so I am going to use some TPU (rubber filament) to put them together rather than glue the bodies together.

At this point, my cat is exhausted from listening to all the printing and decides to take a nap. Eating treats is exhausting work.

The first wave of penquins are coming together, they look a little weird without eyes, hats, and filament sticking out of their head. I run the TPU through two holes on the bottom and up through two holes on the head and tie it off. I then put some super glue on the tie so I can cut the tpu really close to the knot without worrying about it coming apart.

At this point, they are fully posable, and free standing. I just need to print some hats and eyes.

I thought teal would be a good acent color for the top hats, so I loaded my AMS with some teal and got to printing.

Here you can see a time lapse of the four hats printing.

After putting it all together, we have the first wave of penquins. I super glued one of the eyes in, but I later realized they stay in perfectly without super glue making it a lot easier to put together. I had to glue in the beak though, which is kind a pain when working with small parts.

I'm not sure what I will assign their first task to be, but the next wave I will probably print them 10 at once.

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Sell them.

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3D priting is a hobby I would like to get in soon although I fear to fill up my office with 3D print models that wont do much, feels like the question "What do I print now?" opens the pandora box and you start printing like there is no tomorrow, Im not sure if its just a phase and eventually stops but I see posts about 3D printing and does sound like a lot of fun, more now that software is way easier to use than few years ago, have fun ✌️

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It helps if you have a lot of friends and family to pawn them off on. I personally prefer to functional print, print things that solve problems, but I end up printing a lot of statues and trinkets for friends and family.

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Yeah that is why I would get one too, print things that help me not things that necesary entertain, will probably get a basic one next year

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Highly recommend the bamboo labs x1c that @themarkymark has. Its the first printer I've had that felt like an appliance.

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This is how it goes exactly. Especially when you find yourself scrolling endlessly for hours on the mountains of freely available prints of https://www.thingiverse.com/

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Im a sucker for a transfomers, can see me already figuring out how to print some 4 feet Devastator or Dragonzord 😂🤦‍♂️

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It's really cool what you can do with 3D printing!

A friend of ours (who's a machinist by trade) has been messing around with it since pretty much the start. He creates a whole lot of M.C. Escher-esque "impossible shapes" in crazy colors and sells them at local craft shows and flea markets.

It's fascinating how you can create things in one piece that cannot be made any other way!

=^..^=

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I've always wanted a 3D print, they just seem so much fun and a great way to start a business! Love the results too!

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Nice looking prints man.
Color swaps are always fun :D

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Pretty nice finished product. It looks very professional.

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