Manchester Bee In The City

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This is my micro model of the iconic Manchester Bee statue displayed throughout Manchester UK during the summer of 2018. I reverse-engineered this design from photographs and built it almost entirely using geometric shapes in OpenScad - only the abdomen was formed from an extruded mesh. Two versions exist: a full single-color bee on a mount (micro-bee-in-the-city-v3-fixed.stl) and a version split into two so that the bee can be printed in a different color to the mount (micro-bee-in-the-city-v3-bee-footblocks.stl and micro-bee-in-the-city-v2-base-fixed.stl) This model requires supports. Print the mouth part of the head slowly and with care. Note: This model was created independently and is not associated with the Manchester Bee In The City promotion in any way; I made it to allow people to produce their own tabletop version, as the official team strangely does not offer one.