April 26, 2018
Description
I compiled these two elves to go with my Santa (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3899272) and Mrs Claus (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2843428) jumbo figures - Bernard is the head elf and Twinkle is the decorator!
Used Skimbal's and CountSpatula's figures - a combination of each - at 75% of the jumbo figure size, or 300% of the original minifig size, so they are a bit smaller as elves should be!
Printed using Simplify3D in order to pause the print and filament swap where required on the legs.
Some of the parts are a bit finnicky as they are so small - one of these was the mouth and eyes of the innie-head (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1675494) - I actually ended up melting a spare piece of black filament and squishing it into the indents, then sanding flush with the face.
Bernard's shirt bottom and Twinkle's zig-zag skirt, their neck cuff and arm cuffs were an afterthought, based on a picture I saw - I compiled these in Sketchup (still learning) and they turned out really well. They are attached using superglue, with a lighter used to heat and bend around the sharp corners/edges - take it slow and it will work out. The neck cuffs slide right on and you can heat and bend the overhanging pieces down if required.
Bernard's shades needed a bit of trimming on the ear pieces with a sharp craft knife. Whittle down until they fit tightly between the hat rim and the ears. I can't seem to find the original thing, but they originally slid into two holes on the side of the face - I scaled them up to fit on the outside of the face, over the ears.
The ears were printed separately and glued on, as I wanted them placed in a particular way. You can use the Spock head, but the face will not look good on these elves! Hence I used the innie smile head and attached the ears.
The hat brim text was from Dogbert's "Name Your Santa Hats" thing: (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:220973
I was going to remodel the ball on the hat fringe and replace it with a Lindt bell, but I couldn't get the 3D modelling right - I may try this later when I've learnt more on Sketchup...
The head of Santa's helpers needs to have atire that says "I'm in charge", whilst retaining the whimsical properties we all know and love.... plus he's just super-cool!
Bernard's legs were printed using red, white and green ABS filament. Filament swaps were done as follows - each stripe is 2mm thick:
Layer 001-055 in red (the shoe part)
Layer 056-065 in white
Layer 066-075 in green
Layer 076-085 in white
Layer 086-095 in green
Layer 096-105 in white
Layer 106+ in red
Other colours used for Bernard are:
Shoes - red (with a couple of gold BB pellets for the shoe bells)
Hips - red
Neck Ring and Cuffs - red
Body Fringe/Waist - brown (or print a normal body and a brown 1mm thick belt)
Buckle - gold
Body - green
Body Skirt - green
Arms - green
Hands - Skin
Head and Ears - skin
Hat Rim - red
Hat Top - green or gold
Glasses, Mouth and Eyes - black
Scroll - tan or light brown or red (or any colour you wish)
Twinkle, although one of the hardest workers and master decorator, is cute; nothing else, just plain cute...
Twinkle's legs were printed using brown, white, red and green ABS filament. Filament swaps were done as follows - each stripe is 2mm thick:
Layer 001-048 in brown (the shoe part)
Layer 049-058 in white
Layer 059-068 in red
Layer 069-078 in white
Layer 079-088 in red
Layer 089-098 in white
Layer 099-108 in red
Layer 109-118 in white
Layer 119+ in green
Other colours used are:
Shoes - brown (with a couple of gold BB pellets for the shoe bells)
Hips - green
Body Fringe/Waist - brown (or print a normal body and a brown 1mm thick belt)
Buckle - gold
Body - green
Arms - green
Neck Ring and Cuffs - red
Hands - Skin
Head and Ears - skin
Hat Rim - green
Hat Top - red or gold
Mouth and Eyes - black
Twinkle's Decoration String -- Lindt chocolate bunny ribbon and 3 Lindt bells - tie-off the bells at the spacing you wish to use and place a dab of glue in each hand to secure.
Bernard's Scroll (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2601645) - I printed this in two halves, orientated on the build plate down the middle, as I wanted brown ring pieces and a white scroll paper. Print what you want to put on the scroll on a label sheet - the label cut-out size is 24mm height by 30mm width. Make it central and stick down.
The balls on the ends of the shoe tips are yellow gas-gun air pellets that I had lying around. There is no .stl included, but you could source something from Thingiverse if needed, although at 75% scaling they may be difficult to print.
REMEMBER: some of the files are still sized at 400% for the jumbo 4x figures - I printed some parts at 75% and others at 300%, depending on the source file size.
You should be able to gauge for yourself which parts should be printed at what size.
Per request, I have added 3 additional .STL files for:
NB: check that the parts sit flat on the print bed. Adjust positioning in your slicer if needed.
Please check/feedback whether they work for you - I have not tested and am not too good with Meshmixer yet! ;)
License:
Creative Commons - Attribution
HowardB
