Octonauts Gup-B toy

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Currently my daughter is really into Octonauts, a kids show she found on Netflix. Of course she wants all the toys now too. I was looking at some of the pictures on a website of the toys, and I realized that the shape of this particular vessel was pretty basic, and the core of the model was just an elongated sphere. So I took a stab at it in Tinkercad, and I was able to come up with something pretty close. I tried printing a couple different ways, but in the end I had to cut it in half and glue it together. I modeled some small holes in each half to use as alignment pegs. I just used some snips of 1.75 filament for the pegs. I did have to drill them out a little bit, but it all worked fine. For #MakeItFloat, I can confirm that making the bottom half with .75 infill, and the top half .25 infill helps keep the Gup upright and floating. When tipped, the bottom heavy part drops down and keeps it from floating upside down. She's over the moon about this toy, and now wants me to model all the other Gup vessels.