Sylvanians invaded my house

I always keep looking at all of my Town houses to see what could make it even better. It's a happy gathering of  Town series buildings: real, rip-off lookalikes, plus 3D printed. One thing which always struck me, was the lack of a few colors to make it look more complete. I am not into dark colors, except for details, like a dome or a rim. The Town series seems to have come to an end, unfortunately, even with the rip-off brands. So, I bought some dirt cheap last items to feed my OCD, as it just would not shut up, lol!  My Xmas store is a square setup made from stores in matching colors, except the old pink part of the Grand Department Store. That always stuk out like a sore thumb to me, so finally some courage was applied to split it up. There are already plenty of colors going on in that large assembly of buildings and old pink was just one too many. Now, the xmas store is more unified. I lack the space in my house to make a wide U-shape out of the lot, but in my final d...

JollyOaksField town has many vehicles, but I never bought large food vehicles for it. I noticed the small Sylvanian tuktuk which serves as a mobile donut shop and a small hamburger shop on wheels. I wished it all was less specific though and then inspiration struck to create 3 small vehicles myself and print them. I remembered I bought a 3$ tuk-tuk model years ago and adapted it to fit miniature bikes. I created that, but didn't like it that much. I decided that moped trailers would be more fun and altered the model drastically. I also designed or tweaked models to add to each trailer, like custom number plates, marquees, etc. But, they needed to look identical to start with. I was inspired by the days that I hauled just about anything on a moped as a young adult who couldn't afford a driver's license, as it was very expensive to get one without a parent willing or able to teach me. I often wished I had a trailer myself, which was not allowed by law. For example, on my smal...

Part 3 can be read here:  Part 3 What I described in Part 1, was exactly what happened: my eldest print filament, which I bought years ago, which was the last one available in that color then, meaning it had a long shelf life before it was sold, became brittle. My best guess is that it was about 8 - 10 years old. All my filament is stored with dessicant, and dried for 2 hours before it's first use, so it was not wet, which also makes it brittle. It crumbled and got horribly stuck in all parts leading up to and into the extruder. Not just clogged, but broken off in the extruder before it can get hot and pulled through, or poked with a special needle to declog whilst it's piping hot. Ugh. So, hub had to help, as I can't physically do that anymore, as broken bits and pieces got stuck everywhere. It took hours to get that fixed and no printing could be done till he had time to do so! Since we do plan to move in a few years, this filament disaster made me decide to print as much...

Part 2 can be read here:  Part 2 I had a hat shop in the past, but it was too big for my liking, the displays were not fancy and I needed the hats to posh-up Sylvanians, heheheh. But since, I have a 3D printer ... Sylvanian designers did not include greys in their Town. I guess they just figured that kids mostly like candy colors. I beg to differ if it is done in an appealing way. Candy colors are nice, but even as a kid, I liked a lot more than those. I used all leftover grey filaments I had left to make the greys stylish instead of dull. S o, here it is, my Corner Hat Shop! See my cute misprint squirrel leaving the shop! I took pics of the floor detail before it was assembled, as this might not be really visible after.  I used the same floor pattern as the newspaper shop. I created a counter and furniture as well. Here are the hat stands before the dummy heads were put on.  Fun fact: the dome design is made from an Easter egg model, and I used the egg model to create th...

  Part 1 can be read here:  https://sylvanianinvasion.blogspot.com/2025/04/3-new-3d-prints-part-14-mysterious-case.html I had a 3D printed newspaper kiosk. Loved it, but my printer back then was not so good, so it looked "printed" instead of "real". And, once the roof of the kiosk was on, there is no way to see what is behind the storekeeper, which was a shame. Since the previous printer was not so dimensionally accurate, it didn't fit well together at all. I figured a small corner building would make a great Newspaper Shop corner building in Town. The town didn't have any soft citrusy green color buildings yet.  Here's a detail of the floor I created. And now I can spot what's inside very well! Enjoy!

Part of prepairing to move in a few years, was to restrain myself from printing the bigger projects I have planned.  B ut, as I was printing some practical items for our future home, and some items for my husband, plus some stuff to stage this house once it needs to be sold, it dawned on me that I had some colors of filament leftover which were not used in JollyOaksVille Town and would fit right in with the soft color scheme,  just enough to create 3 stores.  Not just the colors that I lacked interested me, but a few ideas that fit totally with the theme Epoch didn't create. And, I fancied some extra wall textures they didn't use either. As there is always a small risk of PLA filament becoming too brittle after a few years, even though I store it with desicant packs, I figured it was better to use them now instead of tagging the extra weight of the rolls along and risking throwing it away anyway by then. Extra weight as in the rolls themselves and about 1/3 - 1/4 of all f...