Rat Christmas Tree decoration

cults3d

Just a little rat ornament. There's a hole in the star that you can loop some ribbon through to hang it on your tree! As designed it's very small, a total of about 30mm tall. This means it's pretty fragile! Printed on my Phrozen Sonic Mini. You definitely need an SLA or DLP printer for this! I suppose if you scaled it WAY up you could do it on FDM, but I don't know why you'd want to... :D I've had good success printing it straight on the print bed, with only a couple little supports under the edge of the tree near the rat. I bevelled the bottom edge of the tree to make it easier to remove from the build plate. Careful though, the tail is really fragile. The way I've had good results is to carefully tap the tail until it comes loose from the build plate, and then you can scrape the tree off a little harder, and you don't have to worry about the tail snapping. I'm happy to share the Blender files if you want to play around with it. Just get in touch!