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Patreon Exclusive: Little Ball Pythons Set!
🕑 Added 2023-01-16 01:22:28 +0000 UTC***THIS FILE IS NO LONGER INCLUDED FREE WITH SUBSCRIPTION.
It can be purchased once re-released according to this Schedule.
Hey Everyone!
With snakes on my mind and a bunch of requests for the Ball Python keychain without the key ring hole, I thought I'd take it a step further and make a new set of smaller Pythons. These little guys are the perfect desktop fidget size (11" and 5" versions), print quickly, and don't require any assembly. 100% Print-In-Place, with no supports needed! These youngsters also sport a more youthful face sculpt.
For sellers, these could be a great value options for those customers that aren't quite ready for the big guys!
Hope you like them!
Matt
*The Little Ball Pythons will only be available as a free download until Feb 28th. After that it will be available again in June 2023, for purchase.
*Click Here to go to the Pinned "the Hub - Info and Current Download Links" post*
3D PRINTING SETTINGS
Baby Ball Python: (Print-in-Place)
Young Ball Python Curled: (Print-in-Place. Curled for optimal bed layout on most printers)
Young Ball Python Aligned: (Print-in-Place. Aligned for larger scale printers, will fit most standard printers if rotated diagonally)
No Supports needed!
Consider using a Brim or Raft if having adhesion issues.
5-15% Infill.
3 Walls.
These have been successfully printed down to 75% scale. YMMV
*Click Here to go to the Pinned "the Hub - Info and Current Download Links" post*
*The Little Ball Pythons will only be available as a free download until Feb 28th. After that it will be available again in June 2023, for purchase.
Comments
Jessica Hamblen
So excited about these coming out of the vault! My kids are going to love them! (and me too ;) )
Michael Ray
I made the baby ball python keychain it came out great!
MatMire_Makes
What do you mean by popping off. Coming off of the bed, or the links are separating?
Wayne Shankles
I’m having issues with end of tail popping off. It has done it on the baby and the young one.
MatMire_Makes
Yes, I use 0.4mm. If your joints are sticking, your printer may be over-extruding. You may want to calibrate your e-steps and flow. Slicers have a multiplier setting to increase/decrease the flow rate. Feel free to post about this in the Discord #Troubleshooting channel if you want. We can more easily help you get it sorted out there.
David Petty
Are you using a 0.4 layer width? All my joints are sticking.
James Emberton
They are painted and usually top-coated with a glossy clear coat (although in an earlier reply, Matt said that he used a multicolor printer for these python models, the Bambu X1C I believe). The eyes are printed as part of the model to have a hole for the pupil, a separate iris, a highlight, and the sclera. Each part of the eye is painted separately, black pupil, colored iris, white highlight, and white or colored sclera. It was a pretty ingenious design choice by Matt.
toozie21
What are you using for eyes? Some of the pics make it look like you have a little glass eye glued into place. Is this something you are buying somewhere?
Stephen Mills
Going be amazing these hopefully will have a slot available later this week to print them
Russell Burns
Just pulled them off the build plate they look amazing
MatMire_Makes
For these I used my multicolor printer, but I did post some videos on how I hand painted the eyes on some of the other ones… https://www.patreon.com/matmire_makes?filters%5Btag%5D=%23Tutorial
Jennifer Hansen
Do you have a video on how you do the eyes?
MatMire_Makes
I didn’t need any in my testing
Rhya Hayes
Do they need supports for the lip overhang at all, or is it small enough to not matter?
Seahanna Dracox
Ty
Makers Ace
Yesss thank you!!
D&K Custom Prints LLC
That's awesome!!! Thank you
Darknynja
Thanks for these. The more snakes the better I always say.
Timothy Heidecker
Super exited! Love it!
