Singing Mrs Claus

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3D Printed Singing Mrs Claus 01/11/2024 - Version 1 Continuing on with making props, I present a singing Mrs Claus. Can't have Santa wihout his partner! It is designed like all the other props. I don't plan on printing this for myself. I'm making these designs available for others to give back to the community that I have benefited from over the years. If you do print this, I would be very interested in seeing your work and any suggestions for improvements. While I have looked at the pieces and ensured they fit on a printer, I can't promise there isn't any errors. Please let me know if there is and I will correct as quickly as I can. If you have used my other props, the mouth for Mrs Claus is about 1/2 the size of the mouth used in other props. It prints in a single piece! I thought this was appropriate for Mrs Claus' face. Description: It is composed of 78 separate pieces. (there are 2 test pieces used to test print and don't attach to Santa). Most pieces are 6mm thick with a 2mm thick raised edge that is 10mm high. This has proven to be plenty strong through several New York Winters, using PLA+ material. Its approximate size is 1330mm wide x 1300mm high (53in x 53in). It holds 300 pixels. I know it is a lot of pieces and may be complex to put together. I've had my printed props out in the Upstate NY weather the last 2 seasons and they held up very nicely. No damage and still going strong. Might be different in hot environments but these aren't bothered by the cold or strong winds. I don't do anything fancy to put them in the yard. A simple metal electrical conduit making a horizontal hanging point (zip tied) and some other pieces driven into the ground to zip tie the props to, to prevent swinging and turning in the wind. People ask me about mounting the printed props. Believe it or not, I simply zip tie them to a rectangular frame. There is a middle horizontal that is used to add some additional support. I've heard people mount to coro and then mount the coro to something else. I've seen people attach to a frame made out of PVC pipe. Printer: Each piece is sized to fit on an Ender 5 Pro printing bed (they fit in a 220x220 bed). Should be able to at least print several pieces at one time but this won't always be the case. I have tested printed pieces using PLA+. This stuff seems to print very nicely. To make the dove tailing work with a good fit, I do set the Horizontal Expansion to -0.21. (your's will be different). I created the small "test pieces" so you could set up printer without wasting much material. The two test pieces will allow you to trial your dove tail fit. I just print using default setting for PLA material. XLights: There is an Xlights custom model provided for this prop. Faces and Submodels are defined. Thanks to HAJunkie2022 for putting this together. All the STLs, readme, assembly images and xmodel file for the prop are found in the zip file. I find this easier than uploading each individual STL. Since I have to have an STL uploaded on Thinginverse, I only show a couple of pieces on Thingiverse.

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