Sylvanians invaded my house

My sister from another mother gave me a voucher for my birthday and I bought a car model I did not have yet. I originally thought of buying the mint color of this model, but it was always too expensive in price tag, shipping and import taxes. So, I bought the red one. First, it got a soapy bath to degrease it and then let it dry. It came apart easily and it was sprayed soft purple. No primer was used, 3 thin coats sufficed. Then, with a chrome marker, the metal parts were recolored again. Needless to say that I love it! Thanks sis!! Small detail: the posh pigs have their handbags tucked right between them!

A year ago, I was so lucky to be able to tag along with my hub on his work trip to Las Vegas and we made a pit stop in Arizona, where my sister from another mother lives. We met new friends there too! We loved all the Mexican decorations we saw there and they inspired me to 3D print some items for me and my sis, like 2 styles of sombreros for example. I created a setting for my cinema. My Mariachi band is performing "Viva La Pinata". The band is called "Perritas Locas", which means "Crazy Small Female Dogs" and if you realize what a female dog is called in English, you get the humor of it, I hope! Here's sis's setup. Look at the cute pompons she added! And there is a cat who had a bit too much of alcohol to drink, wandering around the setup, lol! I love how she improved the 3D printed cacti, they look real! Here are the "Gatos Locos", or "Crazy Cats"! 

Now that I can 3D print in 4 colors, it was time to drag out a free model I discovered to print. It had a lot of errors and needed repairs, plus I tweaked a whole lot to have a 3 level Town series building instead of 2 and added the signature retro window shades to it. It's empty for now as I did not expect to print it now instead of over 6 years from today. It is supposed to be filled up with my apple cider lab that I have, but as that's already tucked away nicely to move in a few years, I decided to just leave it like that. As for now, I pretend that the lab technicians haven't looked into the building yet, although they were looking for better accommodation, lol. 

  A few years ago, I 3D printed a fire truck. Well, a Rescue Squad truck, as my Sylvs don't get into much trouble at all. I was amazed that it did not fit well together, as the design did right in front of my nose. Dimentional accuracy is a problem in many printers. It was glued together and always very delicate to handle to clean, because it barely fit.  I thought about reprinting it with my new printer, till I spotted a Honey Bee Acres farmer's truck on Facebook. That was fun to revamp! Here's the result! Trying to get a firewoman out of my printed truck made it completely fall apart in many pieces. Since some parts, like the logo, did not come off, I did reprint several parts for it. I can print in multiple colors now, so that was an advantage. This was the start model. On the advert, it looked pale blue, but it was actually turquoise when it arrived. 2 spray cans of pearl acrylic, a chrome acrylic pen & printed parts later, it looks like a proper rescue squad truck!

I always study the "maps" which can be found on Sylvanian boxes, as they indicate ideas of possible future releases. On one map of a few years ago, I saw a large building, which sortoff made me wonder if that was meant as a Town Hall. In contrary to the usual pale buildings, this one was again more like the 80ties style in darker wooden colors. I liked the entire concept. Anyway, my hopes for it to become released have dwindled over the years. I created a help center, but it was too small for what needed to go inside, I wanted to move them into a decent sized building. Now that I have a fast new 3D printer, I figured that it was time to create one of my own and I wanted to keep the concept a bit of what I saw on the Sylvanian map.  Here's the front. I bought a cheap Parisian non- printable 3D model building a while back, without a rooftop. I also discovered a free mansarde roof. Both models needed a bit of work to improve them so they could be printed. Both were the tradi

I am in no way sponsored for any reviews. This is just my personal experience. My first 2 brands of 3D printers failed because of power failures in our village. Should not have happened, as printers are made to deal with those. Both Elegoo and Creality had an non-existing helpdesk and glad that Amazon refunded me. I was fed up and decided to buy an expensive printer which was extremely popular in print farms. In the 2 years that I had it, their helpdesk does exist, but was really usless to fix issues. They shipped parts to replace, then had the printed shipped back, and didn't fix it properly. It only printed so-so. I contacted their helpdesk again when all printing failed again and was actually THREATENED by email!!   At that point, it was clear that I would never buy a Prusa ever again.  I found out recently that I am not the only one who they did that to!! I told hub that there was only one thing left to before tossing it out to the garbage, which was to completely replace the n