New Years Clover with Pig, hidden numbers

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A four-leaf clover may be elusive, but a shamrock comes close enough. A simple design, intended for half-size printing, should take about 10 minutes to print out. If you use transparent filament, the numbers will be visible when held against a light source. Even opaque filament will be thin enough to see the numbers. To achieve different colors, use the split version - just prop the pig/head on the clover and it's done. Make only one at first, to check if it fits properly - I'm using a 0.6 nozzle, so it may not fit as well for you. Printer Settings Printer: Wanhao i3 Rafts: Doesn't Matter Supports: No Notes: Reduce size to half to get a nice quick trinket that prints fast enough to be mass-produced. At full size, it might be something to display against a wall or so? I've successfully printed 9 at a time (clover and pig separately). Post-Printing You may need to trim the ears and eyes a bit. Since they're small and at the top, the printer is likely to leave some threads there. Design Methodology Can you guess how I did it? I used Tinkercad - it's a simple enough design. I took the shamrock, aligned the pig in the middle, sunk it so far its feet were merged to the shamrock, then aligned a number-hole in each leaf. On the way there, I tried incorporating a horseshoe without success, enhancing the pig "features" without much luck, and so on...