House of Aviators 'The Centipede' in Moscow // Дом Авиаторов на Беговой

This is a model of the House of Avitors 'The Centipede', a building in Moscow stading on 40 pillars (or "legs"). The model is constructed mostly from photos, it's not 100% accurate but still quite close to reality. Russian wikipedia

Recommended settings:

• Matte PLA or similar low-shrinkage filament
• You need a well-tuned printer (no overextrusion, no z banding...)
• 0.1 layer height
• No supports, no brim
• Scarf seams (untested, but should help when gluing on the balconies)

Printing and assembly:

The STLs are already oriented and scaled for printing, tower-3pcs.stl has built-in supports that need to be snapped off. Some parts need to be printed multiple times, see filenames. You can also check out project.blend (original file) and project-not-optimized-for-printing.blend (original file not split nor tweaked for printability).

This print has many parts that are manually assembled and glued together. Start with the balconies! Most of the assembly is straightforward, except for them. The balconies should be carefully aligned with the grooves on the main body of the building and glued on. I did it by putting small drops of glue on the sets of balconies and then carefully positioning them on the building. Then I added some weight on top and let the glue harden. Since the main body of the building has grooves the balconies should sort-of self align when you place them, if not you probably have artifacts or seams getting in the way.

In my case I did end up with inconvenient seams after printing, so I ended up snipping the extra material off them and filing them slightly. You might be able to avoid all this by using scarf seams or by carefully positioning the seams away from the grooves in the slicer. By default OrcaSlicer places them in a bad spot:

It's easier to glue together the corresponding "corner-balcony-side" and "corner-balcony" before attaching them to the building. Tape helps with alignment: