Beetle Bailey

Beetle Bailey, from an American comic strip created by cartoonist Mort Walker

Private Bailey is a lazy sort who usually naps and avoids work, and thus is often the subject of verbal and physical chastising from his senior NCO, Sergeant Snorkel. Most of the humor in the Beetle Bailey comic strip revolves around the inept characters stationed at Camp Swampy.

Please read the full writeup! Some minor supports are required on three parts, rafts are not required but are recommended on the small parts, and an optional shirt is supplied if you have issues with small parts.

If you have the proper filament colors, no painting is needed.

The assembled model is 190mm tall without the ZZZ bubble and 220 with the ZZZ bubble.

Enjoy!

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Special shoutout to maker Benoît Lussier for providing QA printing and quality feedback.

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Print Instructions:
Supports: YES on three parts, see specific instructions below
Rafts: YES, see specific instructions below
Resolution: .2mm
Infill: 15%

Notes:**

Refer to the notes below for a few helpful printing and assembly instructions.

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Building the model

Colors

Black: (Devil Designs PLA - Black)
mouth
hair (file contains 10 pieces)
z_black
buttons_pocket (file contains two pieces)
note: buttons_pocket are not required if the optional shirt_with_buttons is used
buttons_shirt (file contains four pieces)
note: buttons_shirt are not required if the optional shirt_with_buttons is used
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White: (Devil Designs PLA - White)
z_white
undershirt
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Speckled beige: (Devil Designs PLA - Sandstone)
bag
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Green: (Paramount3D PLA - St. Andrews Green)
shirt
shirt_with_buttons (optional part for coloring the small buttons instead of printing them)
pants
pants_loop_right
pants_loop_left
hat
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Skin: (Paramount3D PLA - Universal Beige)
head
arms
leg_left
leg_right
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Brown: (BambuLabs PLA - Brown)
belt
shoe_right
shoe_left
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Printing and assembly tips

Printing tips

1 - Supports ARE required on three parts.
(note: some slicers consider the support angle where 90deg is vertical and other slicers consider 0 deg as vertical. I use my suggestions based on 90 deg as vertical)

*supports: organic/tree supports with a reduced threshold of 29 deg were used on:

• head
• pants
• arms

2 - There are some pieces that may need brims or rafts, use your discretion. When setting up my prints I prefer to be conservative to ensure the least chance of a print failure, especially since the base of many parts are hidden when inserted into another part. Rafts also ensure that the first layer of small parts will have a better fit for my models.

The buttons are small, so there is an alternate shirt_with_buttons file included as an alternative to printing and gluing the small buttons. A small dab of permanent marker, or paint on the shirt_with_buttons file gives a nice result. (a picture of this file is in the picture section.

*I used a three layer raft on the following parts and kept them on the raft until needed. Printing an extra set is recommended.
- hair
- buttons_shirt
- buttons_pocket

4 - When removing parts from the printer bed, it's a VERY good idea to place left/right parts into separate containers to help with the assembly process. Sometimes the difference between the left and right parts is very small but it is still worth keeping track of them and assembling them in their proper place.

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Assembly tips:

1 - Take your time gluing the model together and enjoy the process. Give some thought into which parts to glue together as groups and then gluing the groups together. Let the glue for each group set completely before combining groups.

2 - I used 3D Gloop (strong fast drying) and E6000 (tacky slow drying) glues to put this model together. For both glues using a smaller amount is usually better than more glue.

3 - important for all my models, be sure to dry fit all parts before gluing.

4 - I leaned on the 'ease of printing' vs 'ease of assembly for the left leg. So, be sure to look at the pictures for the correct assembly of the left shoe/leg/pants and test fit them before gluing.

5 - Refer to the assembly diagrams in the pictures section as well as the uploaded pictures for putting the model together. The model is meant to be glued.

Do not hesitate to ask questions, feedback is essential to making better models.