Bastion looking at Ganymede (modified)

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This is a remix of https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1658877, which I really liked for its pose. Once I started examining the files, it became clear why there are no reported prints. The model has numerous flaws, including parts that don't touch or barely touch each other, and parts from the right leg attached to the gun. Additionally, the right thumb is incomplete, the right leg is incomplete, and printing legs on Ganymede with a 0.4 mm nozzle at approximately 250 mm model height is impossible. Moreover, there's no wing thickness and bad wing orientation for Ganymede and others I've forgotten since I printed it last Christmas. I'm guessing it's a basic game rip. Nonetheless, I'm glad it was posted because with some work in Zbrush, I managed to get it to print nicely. Before posting this, I checked other Bastion models and prints on Thingiverse and found that there is another version by intoxikated at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2756725. Quite independently of me, intoxikated discovered a lot of the problems I did and put a lot of effort into fixing them too. So take a look at intoxikated's work as an alternative. I wanted to print the model with as few pieces as possible because it was a rush job for Christmas presents for my kids. So this thing contains only five pieces (base/legs, torso/head, right arm, left arm, Ganymede). The original right leg was a mess, so I mirrored the left leg and placed it in the same pose as the source. I added keys and sockets to the parts to make placement and gluing easier (I'm a noob at this, so they're barely useful). I thickened up Ganymede's scrawny legs so they would slice and print on my printer. Also, I thickened the wings and re-positioned them so they would print without much support. Bastion's left thumb was missing the final joint, so I copied it from another Bastion thing somewhere (I think it's the source of the remix that I'm remixing) and attached it a'la Frankenstein's monster. Thickened up the shoulder pads which were hardly touching. Thickened up various "bones" so there were fewer gaps which would need support and fewer places to break. Thickened various gun plates so it would print and hold together better. Merged the legs into the stand. I did all this in Zbrush and decimated to give a reasonable quality water tight mesh. I printed the torso in copper PLA, the legs and arms in bronze PLA with yellow PLA for Ganymede. The metallic filaments change tone depending on lighting and viewing angle, which was an unexpected bonus. I was just hoping for the look and feel of a metal statue (actually, I wanted Bastion entirely in bronze but ran out of filament). However, it was a fortunate problem because I'm happy with the mixture. At 100% scale, the base is 144 mm diameter with a total assembled height of about 250 mm.