Lenny - Toy Story

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This is an extremely accurate Lenny model from the Toy Story movies! This model is quite massive, if you're looking to create an accurately scaled Lenny, you'll need to scale down his parts in your slicer. I printed mine at 45%, although that might be a bit too large for some people's taste, but I find it to be fairly accurate. The simplest way to determine your scale is to import the body file into your slicer and use reference photos from the movies to calculate the width you'd like your Lenny to have. We're calculating the width measurement here because the body file represents his entire width, so if we can determine his actual width, we can then figure out every other part's size. Now in your slicer, universally scale the body to your desired width. Your slicer will tell you the percentage that this was scaled down to. From there, all you need to do is uniformly scale down every other part by this same percentage in your slicer! You can basically print these with any infill you want, but what probably matters most is a high infill for the legs. They're fairly thin, so you'll want to make them strong and maybe add an extra wall or two. The model has been broken down into very manageable parts for easy painting. I paint each part separately and then assemble the parts after they've been finished. The parts fit together snugly, especially the legs, so you might want to tape off the parts of his legs that will be inserted into the body to make assembly easier. Or you can always use a utility or X-Acto knife to shave it down a bit later. The only piece that isn't 3D printed is the Eye Clear Cover. I bought some thin flexible plastic from a local plastics store (TapPlastics). It's thin enough that I can cut it easily with scissors. You could probably find some similar plastic at a toy box that has thin plastic window displays. I printed the Eye Clear Cover file and used that to trace the size I needed, then glued it in place. Make sure you leave a little space between this cover and the pupil so he'll have actual googly eyes! A few other parts I didn't paint were the red winder and the eye pupil. The red winder is too small, so I just used Red Hatchbox PLA and printed it at high resolution - the result looked great! The eye pupil was also left unpainted because it has a smooth glossy finish from printing on a glass bed. I faced the bottom side out so it would have a clean look.