THE SMALLEST, 3D PRINTED, CHRISTMAS VILLAGE!!! (Patreon)

Hello my friends!

I present to you tonight this mini Christmas village that started in a very funny way!

Originally, it was the first prototype of a Halloween project, with a little spooky house... After printing it and placing it on a tealight, Pamela my wonderful partner in life, fell madly in love with the little house and begged me to make a whole series of them, to create a mini Christmas village to put on her work desk.

The idea was born; To create the smallest 3d printed Christmas village.

So here it is! Tiny houses that fits over battery-operated tealights!

The project is really simple, but there's a few things to know. So read carefully! :)

-These will work with conventional battery operated tealights. Like the ones from the dollar store or amazon. But they WON'T FIT over rechargeable tealights, which are much higher than the conventional ones. I choose to make the design around the conventional ones, because they are cheap and easy to find compared with the rechargeable ones that are more costly. If you want to print the village for the rechargeable ones, you will have to scale the project a bit to make them fit.

I hate to say that, but you will need supports on some parts. The parts that require supports are the snowy bases (the white part over the tealights) and the roof of the church. (for the small opening).

I tried to make them support free, but because i want the fussy skin on the top, the top surface needs to be curved. So it is impossible to print them upside down, and making them in two parts ended up with an ugly result and it took the same amount of time to print them as the supported ones.

Its a quick project. With a smooth 0.12mm layer height, A complete house (Base, house and all the accessories) is printable under 2.5 hours on a Bambu Lab printer. The longest part is the base, with the fuzzy skin, and it takes roughly an hour. But you can do it faster with a 0.2mm layer height, and because of the fuzzy skin the difference won't show much.

This project is a bit of a torture test for your printer. So make sure that you are using the right settings. You have some overhangs, bridges and tiny pieces of wall between each windows, and those details will put your printer to the test for sure. But overall, they are easy to print as long as you watch your temps settings and your speed.

The bases are printed with fuzzy skin. Some other parts too, like the hedges. If they are too tight, scale down the accessories by 1 or 2% to make them fit in place. It was ok on my side, but fuzzy skin is different from one printer/slicer to another and the results may vary. So don't be shy to scale the parts down a bit if they don't fit.

I have included some instructions as usual, but only for one model. Once you have done one, you will be able to do all the others. It was quicker for me this way.

A complete Bambu Lab project is included.

I think i have covered everything aspect of the project. If you are experiencing some problems with it, send me a private message and i will help you as much as i can.

Hope you like it! This is just a small project to warm you up and tackle the Christmas season! Be ready, I'll be back with much more detailed and magical projects!

Have fun my friends!

Pascal