My Little Pony - Castle of Friendship

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The Castle of Friendship from season four of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic.  My daughter wanted this castle for her birthday and I coudn't find a suitable 3d model to print or a true to original toy version. I tried my best to model it in Blender (awesome software). It was a bumpy ride, as I am not entirely familiar with the tools and painting it was kind of a pain, though the final thing turned out quite interesting. I used primer and spray paint for the body and acrylics for the small details, with a final varnish. The model is flat in the back for two reasons: a) the cartoon just shows the castle from the front, so I didn't want to create non canon architecture; and b) I wanted to hang it in my daughter's wall with a bit of velcro, so it could be both a toy and a decorative thingy.  My advice: make a simple support with a velcro (I did a metal one) if you want to play with it detached or unsupported, because IT WILL EVENTUALLY FALL. Some parts, if you want to paint them, will need sanding or cutting for a proper fit, but nothing major. I apologize for the models size and complexity. I had to remesh some parts in Blender (mainly the sculpted ones) because Blender tended to make non manifold meshes and I didn't know a proper way to fix some errors (I was in a hurry in this project, so I made some mistakes in the original files, ergo the need to remesh).  The scale of the models respect the size of figurines I bought online for my daughter to play. They are easily found. There seems to be some problem with thingiverse understanding some of the models. They printed fine on CURA and on my Creality. Let me know if you encounter any major problem. Anyway, enjoy!