Lady Justice Remix for Easy FDM printing (Improved)

My son asked if I could slightly scale up the model I used for his desk ornament and make 1st 2nd and 3rd place trophies for a competition going on at his work.  I scaled it up by 10%, made some improvements, reinstalled the scale and attached my thicker sword blade to the base model.

My first thought was to print these in silk PLA, gold, silver and bronze.  My hands aren't working especially well at the moment and I kept breaking the small and weak silk printed parts as I was trying to glue them in place.  After breaking multiple sword blades, a right hand and a scale, I decided silk PLA is just too fragile for me to work with using my big beefy claws, so I decided to print them in plain white and gray PLA, then spray paint each in the desired color.

With the sword blade and scale attached to the statue model, support structures are a bit more cumbersome to remove, however, I'm able to do that easier than trying to glue those little pieces in place without breaking things.  Admittedly, removing the tiny support structures around the scale were the most tedious part of these builds.  I recommend slowly and carefully removing the tiny supports making contact with the scale before removing the big pieces.  While less tedious than removing support material from the scale, removing supports around the sword handle will also require care.

When I scaled it up, the weight bowls of my first design looked especially trashy, so I decided to remodel the three vertical structures into actual chains with a centered 1mm structure keeping them upright for easy printing, and closed the ring at the top, intending to hang the weights from the scale rather than glue them as I did with the original model.  IMO, the finished product is so much better than the first one I printed for my son.

The weight bowl will need to be printed twice obviously, but prints as oriented in the STL and doesn't require supports or any other considerations.  The base and text plate print easily without supports.  The main body REQUIRES a significant amount of support, and for that I use organic (tree) supports to buildplate only.

Since I'm no longer gluing the weight bowls to the scale, only the main body and text plate will need to be glued to the base, and those are both large flat surfaces that are gravity friendly while gluing.  I do recommend gluing the statue to the base with the scale parallel to the flat front edge of the base as I think it looks best that way.  The text plate I'm including is blank, and intended to be adorned with whatever name or message the maker sees fit for the model.  For the original statue I made for my sons desk, I simply put his organization and name on the plate, and for these trophies I put the organization, the year, the name of their competition and winners position.

I'm publishing this as a remix of a remix because scaling it up breaks compatibility with previous versions of this design and I wanted to keep everything separate to avoid confusion.