R2D2 Pencil/Pen Holder

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Had a friend who admired a pencil Holder I made so I asked him if he'd like one and if so, what he'd want it models as and he said R2D2 so, one painstaking week later I designed this (remixed from those cited off to the left somewhere.) I had to find an R2D2 where I can at least make the head rotate a bit as that was a big deal to me and though that function does interfere with R2 being a Pencil Holder when his head is rotated a different way, I figured people would still love that feature. I wanted to make the legs capable of movement as well but that proved to be just far to complicated for something I wasn't about to make any money off of as I wasn't paid whatsoever for my time and effort on this (and even took a loss on materials for printing this project.) I'm still hoping to do that one day, but as it is I don't even know where to begin right now. Below are my printing instructions and how I did it with the R2 I printed. Supports are going to be a mix, some parts will obviously not require them, while they will be vital for others and the body may require a mix of supports and support blockers where you feel they will be to difficult to remove supports, so proceed with caution on that one. I used brims mostly when I felt there would be supports that needed it, but for the most part, they weren't needed for the main pieces themselves unless your own bed adhesion just needs it, then of course its user discretion. I'll publish pictures of my own 3D Printed R2 as soon as I can figure out how to reduce the file size of the pictures which are, right now, over five times the 200KB limit ThingiVerse is putting on photos so, we'll see. Let me know when you have any questions or comments and I'd certainly love to see how any else's turns out! May the Force and the Machine Spirit be with you!