ABANDONNED HOUSE CANDY JAR OR ILLUMINATED DIORAMA! (Patreon)

Hello my dearest friends!

Here's the first Halloween design of this year! A magnificent candy jar that looks like an abandoned house!

Bones, a coffin, a skull, broken windows, and planks to barricade the windows detail this slightly spooky-looking model.

In the same category (candy jars), we already had a chapel and a cute gingerbread house for Halloween. Now we have an abandoned house that also matches my previous Halloween dioramas. So, if you like, you can also use it with tealights, making it an element to add to other dioramas rather than just using it as a candy jar. It's entirely up to you!

Since the original design was intended to be a candy container, I kept it "simple" to avoid having too many fragile pieces. I also slightly rounded the top pointy corners of the roof walls to prevent injuries. Finally, I focused on the orientation of the printed parts to ensure they are rigid and strong. As a result, it can be handled with minimal care and should last a long time.

Now for the important points to know about the design:

- All parts print without supports EXCEPT ONE, which is the main body of the house. Supports are recommended for the windows. That's all. Everything else is 100% support-free.

- To create a strong and easy-to-print roof, I opted for a different approach than the previous roofs. Two separate sections, printed flat, are joined by a connecting plate. This should help those who had difficulty with the previous roofs, the ones starting at 4 different corners of the build plate and merging together at the top. Also, the roof angle wasn't well-suited to a single-piece printed design, so I believe this method is the best.

- You have plenty of possibilities to unleash your creativity! You can print more pumpkins, different sizes, more skulls, coffins, and arrange them as you like. The same goes for the window pane models and barricade planks.

Regarding the windows and barricade planks, you'll see "TBD" at the end of the filename. For those unfamiliar, "TBD" stands for "to be determined," so it's up to you to choose which models you'll use and in what quantity.

Otherwise, all the rest is like my other projects.

Some parts require color changes per layer, which you can do on any printer.

The filenames are coded for the applicable colors, quantities, and settings.

Complete instructions are included with the project, as usual.

All parts are oriented correctly for printing.

A complete Bambu Lab file is included with all my settings and requirements.

Regarding the color changes in the Bambu Lab file, they are indeed present, but since they are defined by layer, you must slice the plate first to see them in the preview window.

And that pretty much concludes my recommendations for the project!

One last thing: DO NOT GLUE THE ROOF ONTO THE HOUSE!!! 😂 Very important if you wanna have access to the interior to put candies inside or your favorite battery operated tealights!!!

If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Either here via private message or on my community's Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403567230344891

With that, I won't take up any more of your time, friends, and I'll let you print this little gem!

A second Halloween design is coming very soon and is well underway! I won't say any more and I'll keep it a surprise for the coming days!!

Have fun, friends!!! ❤️

Pascal