Harry The Hairy Highland Cow

Hello there!

From the highlands of Scotland or the wilderness of the Dutch ‘Drents-Friese Wold’ (more convenient for a Dutchman).

Sir (or Madame) Harry The Hairy Highland Cow has arrived at your doorstep!

Why won't you let it in to give it some well deserved pets, after all, who wouldn't want a fluffy Highland cow for themselves? :)

Print settings:

• For my printed models I only used Wood and Marble PLA but I'm pretty sure any PLA will do just fine or maybe even better.

  Make sure to dry it beforehand since this model uses a lot of thing lines which may come out bubbly or stringy if your filament isn't dry enough.

• I created a print profile for this part which works perfectly with the standard 0.4 mm stainless steel nozzle for me, I recommend you to use this profile but the choice is up to you.

Post printing:

• When the print is finished, let it cool off till you can pop it right off.
• Remove the connection between the hairs and the sacrificial walls on the sides and the front of the cow, my recommendation for this process is to use a (warm) knife or a thin and sharp pair of scissors. It doesn't matter if you pull a few hairs from the cow, a few hairs doesn't make that much of a difference.
• Remove the tree-supports with care, the legs and the tail are pretty thin and will break off if too much stress is applied to them. So carefully remove the supports around these parts.
• Grab a hair-drier or a heat-gun and start heating up the hairs of the cow, you can than bend/style them to whatever shape you desire.
• You have your own Highland Cow!

Print background:

Anyways, this is a little sculpture of a (highland) cow I made in Blender (for the first time).

Upon seeing the famous ‘Hairy Lion’ I was wondering why there were almost no other hairy animals to 3D print (as it turns out, it takes quite some prototyping).

Taking into account my moms obsession with these furry critters and me thinking lions are kinda overrated as animals, i created my first ever Blender model, of a cow, after only knowing how to work with CAD software.

I than combined CAD and Blender to make the hair and the sacrificial walls and only then did the long journey of putting together a good printing profile start.

I added all the raw files too, the .3FM file of coarse but also the .STL files with and without hair, the .SLDPRT file in which i modeled the hairs and walls, and the .BLEND file of the cow itself.

Hope you like it, and let me know if something's off! I'll look into it and post a new version of it.