Tintin and Snowy

myminifactory

Tintin and his trusty sidekick Snowy are beloved comic strip characters created by the renowned Belgian cartoonist Hergé. As a reporter and adventurer, Tintin travels the world with his loyal dog Snowy (French: Milou) by his side. No special supports are required for this project. If you have the right filament colors, you won't need to paint a thing. The finished model stands an impressive 263mm tall, 203mm long, and 100mm wide (including the base) after assembly is complete. Don't let the lengthy notes below worry you; I just want to make sure I provide as much helpful advice as possible to ensure building this model is a fun experience for everyone involved. So sit back, relax, and enjoy! **Print Settings** * Printer: FlashForge Creator X * Supports: No * Resolution: .2mm * Infill: 10% **Notes** See below for valuable printing tips that will make your build process easier. My basic print settings include two shells. I also print small parts at a 50% infill rate. **Building the Model** Colors (all parts are single-printed pieces): Beige/Skin: * head * nose * arm_right * arm_left Black: * eye_right * eye_left * eyebrow_right * eyebrow_left * snowy_nose * snowy_eye_right * snowy_eye_left * snowy_eyebrow_right * snowy_eyebrow_left White: * collar * mouth * socks_right * socks_left * snowy_body * snowy_headbone * abone_b Brown: * pants Dark Brown: * shoe_right * shoe_left Light Blue: * sweater * sweater_right * sweater_left Orange: * hair Gold: * base Any color (hidden parts): * bone_bump (optional) * body_bump (optional) **Printing and Assembly Tips** **Printing Tips:** 1. No supports are required, so you're good to go. 2. I used a brim on some pieces; use your discretion based on your own preference. Arm_right has a small base and steep part angle, while the bone pieces are tall with small bases. The nose has a small base and larger top, and body_bump has a small base and larger top. 3. All black pieces are small, so I don't recommend scaling the model (warning!). They print cleanly without a brim, but make sure to clean up any first-layer squish for the best fit. 4. The mouth is sized for .2mm layer height; it should be a bit flexible. 5. When printing small parts that are hollow at 10% infill, my printer has issues. I always print small parts at least 50% infill. The snowy_body part is large enough to print fine, but the ears become "small pieces" for my printer. I used Simplify3D to set only the ear portion of the model to 50% infill. 6. All pieces were printed and fitted using a .4mm nozzle; a .5mm nozzle should still work with the small pieces. **Assembly Tips:** 1. The diagrams in the pictures section will help you assemble the model, which is relatively straightforward. 2. For the small black pieces, I kept small jars handy to store them and keep them sorted since some of them look quite similar. In case you mix up the pieces, Snowy's eyebrows and eyes are thicker (taller with flat sides) than Tintin's. For both Snowy and Tintin, the thicker part of the eyebrows points to the middle. 3. The mouth is flat and attached to a curved surface in the head. Since the mouth is only two layers thick, I manually bent it a bit before trying to glue it to the head. Be sure to get a bit of a bend in it first. 4. The base contains just an outline, as opposed to an actual depression of where to position Snowy and Tintin's feet.