Flexi Transforming Reindeer

To lock the legs set them streight down and push up. You will hear a click
The force and tolerances on the model are set like for kids - but it will depend on the filament used and slicer options

Model can be printed in one color, in parts with 3 colors and with 4 colors on multicolor printer

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If you want to sell prints of this model let me know, I will prepare a commercial licensed version

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Short Video
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSU9fpJDfX8/

More Flexi models in my collection:
https://www.printables.com/@C47_3d/collections/1869277

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PRINTING TIPS

Printed with PLA with:
0.1mm and 0.2mm layer height
10% grid infill
3 walls

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Painted brim is recommended on the head-to-body connector - I can prepare a sepparate model for this, if needed

Part of connectors will be printed 'half-in air'
There is a 0.2mm gap between connectors and base model on Z axis - this works like a self support

It is not recommended to resize model up - apart of connectors looking little worse there should be no problems with the print itself but you may need too much force to transform from solid to flexi. You are free to test it tho

Print one single color (with body color) Reindeer first before going to print MULTICOLOR
See if everything will work fine

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MULTICOLOR
Select  FlexiReindeer, MULTICOLOR_Dark-brown, MULTICOLOR_Light-brown and MULTICOLOR_Red (+MULTICOLOR_Red-mouth if you want it) in your file explorer and move them to the slicer
Click 'yes' when asked if you want to add is as a one model - it will merge all the files to one. If there will be no such notification merge them by yourself (select all, right click and merge)
Then choose a color for each model
'Dark-brown' is for hooves, antlers and eyes
'Light-brown' is for a lower body parts
'Red' is a nose (+optional mouth)

If models are merged you can then duplicate them to fill the bed plate

I printed 10 models with 0.2mm layer height (to lower number of filament changes)

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PARTS
You can print all the parts in one go (on typical size printer) - set the pause after finishing each model or just use automatic filament change if you have it
Brown Body, Dark-brown antlers, hooves and eyes and red nose (you can also print it in dark-brown)
Set the slicer to 'print by object' not 'by layer'
Merge together parts with the same color and set everything to the right place on the bed plate
I printed 3 models at once (3x body in line on top, then 3x dark-brown parts in the middle and 3x red nose on the bottom)

When assembling use pliers
There are 2 left and 2 right hooves - they should point to the front
Nose may be tricky, nostrills should be on the bottom. Push nose with something hard, before you connect the head to the body

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After a print you will need to break small connections between parts
Just move parts a little and it should be all right
Head is not connected to the body - you will need to push it in all the way

For safety reasons you can glue in the connector to the body
In PARTS version you can glue every part together

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