Sylvanians invaded my house

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

I am keen on factory error dolls, unless it means damage. I already have several. I will list them up here and add if I come across some more. Camel colored sheep: adult and child.   Next 3 grey cats without the top dark grey stripes. Plus, all 3 have distinctly  differently printed white mouths and white cheeks. Pink mouse without white mouth. Also, in comparison to the correct pink one on the right, it's paler. White eared white mouse. The ears should be pink inside. A Persian cat without the longer Persian fur. The child even has whiskers painted on. A beady  eyed cat version of the correct one on the right. I have 2 of those actually. A grey rabbit with white cheeks, and the mouth is grey instead of white. The 2 dogs on the left are an incorrect colored version of the others. One has a lovey rich brown color, the other one is a yellow-beige. Hope you enjoyed it!

The blog about Angelina's origins and link to Sylvanian Families can be found here: Related to Sylvanian? These are the original figurines from the series. I did give them all shoes, as only the original ballerinas were wearing ballerina flats. None of the others were intended to wear shoes, but that's something I always do, to make them stand better. Angelina birthday set. This is very hard to find. This is the Calico Critters Katie Kitty ballerina. Britney Ballerina holding another of her dresses. Some of them got some fixes to restore them. The wings were curled up and noting I tried seemed to fix it. This seemed to happen to all of them over time. So I added a thin plexi at the back to make them stand correctly again. And the wand received a star again at the top. The original necklace was missing, but I had a Sylvanian one which replaced it well, on the right. Some figurines were dressed extra. I can't stand the idea of private parts getting too cold, rofl, so Henry go