Multicolor Tallneck from the Horizon game series

Do you want a little Tallneck of your own? Are you too lazy to paint it properly? Do you have a 4-color FDM printer?  Are you mentally prepared for a challenging print? Look no further!

What is this

This is a model of the Tallneck machine, from Horizon: Zero Dawn and Horizon: Forbidden West. It's a remix of a great model by Gloomeskk, prepared for a multi-material FDM printer. It uses 5 colors, though it can be printed with a 4-color printer using a manual color swap for one of the colors mid-print.

Printing instructions

The model files include versions of them in orientations that I found to have higher success rates. I recommend printing it in these orientations, using soluble and/or tree (or organic) supports.

In some cases (feet plates, antennas) there are thin surfaces which are colored with different colors in the back and front. These are hard to print and you should consider overriding the colors; however I'm publishing the model here as it was originally colored, and as I ended up printing it. The larger you scale the model, the easier these actually become to print.

In the “prepared for printing” folder, the legs are actually set up with 4 colors. Add a manual color swap for the blue to change it to yellow, for each leg the height is different but you can compare with the full-color model to see which parts should be colored how and to apply the swap.

Assembly instructions

Gluing the pieces is straightforward, just notice that the pegs for the legs don't actually reach all the way into their holes on the body. I've added models for small spacers you can print and then glue on both sides to address this.

This model is top-heavy and in practice only has 3 legs, so I recommend gluing it to some base. In the photos you can see it glued to a platform I kitbashed together from https://www.printables.com/model/648453-ruined-car-token-for-horizon-zero-dawn and https://www.printables.com/model/801464-miniature-bases-pack-gravel, unfortunately that base can't be shared due to licensing.

Differences from the original

The original model here on Printables is split in a way that makes it much easier to print, but I really wanted to avoid the split lines it introduces. My version is made of fewer parts and they are very easy to glue together seamlessly; each part is a lot more challenging to print, though.

The coloring is also by Gloomeskk - though his version with colors was only published on other sites and is problematic to print because it's not split to parts at all, and many surface normals are reversed. I've performed a lot of cleanup to apply the colors here properly.