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Articulated blue tit!

A tiny ball of blue feathers, incredibly beautiful and capable of bringing joy wherever it is seen.

The figure is printed as a single piece. When opening the wings for the first time, be careful and do it gently, section by section, as they have a limited range of motion. If too much force is applied, the small stops may break.

Easy to print!

Includes an STL file and a multi-color version!

Designed for easy printing and durability.

You can adjust the figure's rigidity by adjusting the filament flow.

3D PRINTING PARAMETRES

EYE! Good bed adhesion, quality filament, and good condition are essential.

Easy to print.

The first layer must be perfect.

100% flow. You can adjust the rigidity of the model by modifying the flow by ±5%.

No supports.

No brims.

0.4 mm nozzle.

0.2 mm layer height.

1.2 mm wall thickness or more.

20% infill or more.

The model should be robust.

If you have any problems, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Materials Used

Smart Materials pearl PLA.

Amolen matte black PLA.

Esun matte morandi green PLA.

Amolen gradient light blue PLA.

Amolen matte lemon yellow PLA.

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Comments

Chris (CAV217)

Looks great! Looking forward to printing this!!

Bryodiversity

There are few 3D print designers who make high-quality articulated birds, and even fewer who make high-quality articulated birds based on specific passerine species (besides crows and ravens). I truly appreciate you for that. 👏 I live in Minnesota in the United States, where one of our most familiar backyard dinosaurs is a close relative of the blue tit: the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus). These melodious little puffballs are phenomenal survivalists, not bothering to migrate, but simply weathering our infamously harsh winters by simply consuming as many calories as possible (in the form of insects and spiders concealed in tree bark) during the day and huddling together at night. It’s physically similar enough to the blue tit that you’d probably only need to change the color palette (maybe make the body plumper, the head rounder, and the beak slightly narrower if you were committed to it) to make one from this model. Beyond that, if you’re looking for passerines to test your 3D design skills, consider the birds-of-paradise (family Paradisaeidae). Wilson's bird-of-paradise (Diphyllodes respublica) might be a good one to try. Alternatively, it might be interesting to make some bowerbirds (family Ptilonorhynchidae), along with customizable models of the bowers the males build to court females. (Similar principle to the log perch you recently released, with the flowers that can be added to the grass; just more elaborate.) The satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) masked bowerbird (Sericulus aureus), and regent bowerbird (Sericulus chrysocephalus) are all stunning birds with or without their homemade display stages, but MacGregor's bowerbird (Amblyornis macgregoriae) and the Vogelkop bowerbird (Amblyornis inornata) have bowers that would be particularly fun to customize, the former having a “maypole”-style bower resembling a Christmas tree made of twigs (complete with hanging decorations!), and the latter building a thatched hut around the base of a tree overlooking a “garden” of collected treasures, often arranged by type and color.