Great Wave off Kanagawa - multicolour remix - No MMU required

This is a remix of the original model Great Wave off Kanagawa by 3_D_M_A, who did an superb job creating a 3D interpretation of Hokusai's art as a stack of layers.

I have simply added a colour change at each of those layers. The change can be done manually - you do not need an MMU. However without automation you do need to stay by your printer all day without wandering off as the colour changes are only a few minutes apart.

You can swap to any colour at any change, e.g. you could see what a sunset version looks like; but to make it come out like mine, I printed it using 4 colours of PLA:

White (Geeetech silky white - its fine but nothing to get hugely excited about)

Royal Blue (Silky Royal Blue by Giant Arm - a beautiful colour like peacock chest feathers - highly recommended)

Burnt Titanium (Burnt Titanium by Voxelab - a superb sparkling dark blue/dark green flipflop that you need! However did seem to cause some trouble when swapping out as discussed below)

Silver (Eyrone Ultrasilk silver - actually a bit disappointingly grey compared to their other excellent metallics)

All those filaments print easily. However I did have the loading of the next filament fail several times, usually when swapping out the Burned Titanium, where it seemed as if some of it had solidified. This is not a disaster - I recovered every time by telling the printer that the load had been successful (because telling it to keep trying to load or purge the colour did not get anywhere), then immediately pausing it and telling it to unload the filament before it restarts printing. Then I heated the nozzle to 270 degrees, liquifying the blockage. Once that temperature had been reached I loaded the filament again and this time it loaded fine. Weirdly, on telling it to then continue the print, it then went back to the unload position and made me unload and then reload the filament. Once I had done that, not changing the colour this time, it continued happily on.

I never bothered to check that the new colour was running pure - it can transition in the print if necessary.

Unfortunately,  as far as I know, you cannot at this time print out the schedule of colour changes, and the list is also too long to screenshot in one go, so I wrote them all out by hand, crossing off each one I completed, to ensure I knew what colour to load next.

I have uploaded the project file containing all the colour changes for you to slice at 0.2mm layer height. The colours appear after you have pressed Slice.

You can actually fit 2 or if you are very careful with manual positioning, 3 models on the print bed, but the print time then gets pretty long and you are not going to want to hang around manually swapping filament for that duration.

The OG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai - I hope he'd like it!