Gnome House revisited

cults3d

This is an update to the gnome house that I uploaded a couple of years ago. I made that one using a piece of a birch tree that had died in my front yard. I noticed that the original gnome house was one of the more popular things that I have uploaded, so decided to update it by making the whole thing printable. Because I wanted it to be taller than my printer can handle, I made it in two pieces with a coupling ring between. It is designed so that it will print without supports. The inside is hollow, so you can put a light inside if you desire. I have experimented with some electronic tea light candles, and the effect is very nice. You can see the flickering light through the windows, suggestive of a fireplace. I have also added some flowers for the window boxes. Rather than start from scratch, I resized tomvdb's Big Lego Flower ( https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2222088 ) to about 10% as a starting point, created my own stems that fit into the window boxes and fiddled with the flower tops so they would fit on the stems. Depending on the usual variables, you might have to do a little reaming of the center holes to get a good fit because the flower tops are so small and the holes don't print well. For the roof, I layered the shingles from my original design onto a base and then joined them together into a single file. You need to print two of them and glue them together at a right angle. I also made the gingerbread shingles into a single file that glues to the front and rear of the gable ends of the roof. If you prefer to make your own roof, the individual shingle strips are available on the original design page ( https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1697874 ). The numbers in the .stl file names indicate how many of each need to be printed. If there is no number, you only need one. You will probably want to print the flower tops in various colors for variety.