Patrick Star (from the Spongebob Squarepants show)

We wanted someone to accompany awesome Spongebob by Cipis and decided Patrick is the way to go. We liked Patrick by pukizzo, but the author was unable to provide multicolour version. So I fashioned my own copy in Tinkercad.

As we do not have MMU, this is a multipart print, printed one colour at a time. Assembly is required, but complete assembly stl, useful for painting projects, is published, too.

Material used: printed with Prusament PLA, pink body parts were printed with Fiber3D PLA Silk. Photographed figure is printed in 150% size.

printing: Published .3mf files contain parts separated by colours, ready to slice and print.  File  named “Patrick_Star-misc” contains rest of the parts with different colours. You need to prepare them yourself, but hiding unwanted parts and slicing should do the trick.

How to make the leaves: Print them flat, pour boiling water in the cup, submerge leaf laid on teaspoon under water. Remove after 10 seconds or so, put heated and soft leaf to its place, make correct shape by fingers (it has softened in hot water, should conform to the curves nicely). Let it dry and harden, glue it. 

Assembly: For gluing I use Chemoprén na obuv (which seems to be a local variant of Pattex Contact Adhesive All Purpose Transparent glue). (I use it to bond PLA almost exclusively).  Other brads might work fine too (UHU alleskleber, Pattex all purpose repair gel). The legs and torso are slotted / have centering holes for small woodpegs to align properly. Use kitchen wooden skewer to create aligning pegs.

For anyone interested in re-modelling, there is a link to my Tinkercad project: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/9WJ2CkgIH4D-patrickstar

Body was created from Tinkercad primitives first, than reshaped using SculptGL.

MMU files are on my todo list.