Technotrousers!

This is a posable model of the Technotrousers from the Aardman animations movie Wrong Trousers.

You can either glue the legs in a pose, or set up springs that go through the balljoints with some m3 screws to keep the legs movable and reposable.

The feet are best printed with a filament change, starting with black for the bottom part and green for the rest. There are also hidden holes in the bottom of the feet for some 6mm diameter, 4mm length magnets. You can open the holes with a 6mm drill or just a craftknife. The magnets allow the Technotrousers to be attached to metal surfaces.

The ankles can be printed, or made out of 13mm brass tubing (or solid bar), as seen in the pictures.

The legs need good overhang performance to print clean, 0.15mm structural works good.

The balljoints require good first layer adhesion, you might need to enable brim.

The main part or hip is split into three parts that will be glued together with short filament lengths for alignment. Technotrousers_hip_2 needs supports, but you should be able to get away with very minimal supports only on the central rib. Technotrousers_hipsockets is printed in black.

The loops on the sides are made by heating some filament, and wrapping it around a screwdriver shank or similar. From the resulting helix loops can be cut and then glued in place.

The leg_attachingpiece, I must confess, is yet untested. The pictures are of earlier prototype with a different method of connecting the legspring. It was too fiddly to assemble. This new solution should be much easier to assemble, since you don't need to fish the end of the spring from inside with the hip obstructing access. You attach the spring to the leg, going through the ball (with the smaller hole of the ball downwards) and the other end of the spring is connected to the leg_attachingpiece. After this, the leg is inserted in to the socket and the leg_attachingpiece is rotated to lock it in place. There are multiple holes to choose to make sure the neutral position has the foot pointing in the right direction.

The controlpanel has red levers that can be made movable. It is a little more work but it adds to the playability. The main body of the controlpanel is printed front side up to get the best detail, so it needs supports. Assemble the controlpanel fully, then attach it to the trousers.

You are now ready for some moonwalking!