Sylvanians invaded my house

Biggest and longest project so far  to design and print! Took me just over 1.5 year from start to finish! I do have another smaller big project coming up in a few weeks, with another vid. Since it's hot here, I will resume printing once the temp goes down, to keep the house nice and cool. Printing all day makes the house a tad warmer!  I have an even larger project coming up as soon as a new version of a multicolor printer comes out, hopefully by the end of this year. I uploaded my vid on Dailymotion, it was rejected because of copyright issues. Duh, all of it is made by me and there is no music! Just AI, sigh. My counter claim was rejected within a minute with the same copy/paste they always send when their AI detects "something". Made a small change and tried again, to have the same outcome. Not even a real person checks it. It was removed before the counterclaim was submitted!! Doing that was useless!  Reluctantly, I tried Vimeo, and it was rejected because of its size...

No more tech talk for this project! Assembly pics, yay! I had a few days delay in printing,  as  I had to print parts for hub as well, it has been warm and a printer does give off some heat, plus w e had stuff to do away from home, and I never print when I am not present. And, I was inspired to print extra items, lol. You know me by know! Could not resist, bwahahahah!  Almost done printing as we speak, time to finish decorating the lot, take pics, make videos and compile it all into 1 storyline vid. Part of the vid is already made as well.  Finding the right tree  color in a decent PLA filament  was a challenge . It had to look a bit like oak, and fit my existing Sylvanian forest. There are PLA's available with actual wood components, but they smell of burnt wood during printing , which I did not want inside my house .  As far as the activity centers on the platforms, I had enough colors to pick and choose from to print from various brands. I went ...

More tech talk, if you don’t like that, just look at the pic and wait till next blog to show the assembly.  By the time that I had to design a new tree, my Blender skills had improved due to another project I was nearly done with. I had an oak tree which I downloaded before I had the skills to sculpt it properly in Blender. It needed to be twisted, warped and corrected to fit the planned activity levels. I became much faster too to tweak designs by now. Within a week, despite that subtracting and uniting parts in Blender is utterly illogical to make it work, I had the design.  This is it at that point, I did improved it and cleaned it up after. It's a printscreen from the front in Blender. The base is really wide, which made it perfectly sturdy.  As you can see, it has more branches than the first model, so I added even more activity centers. Yay!  Instead of a spiral staircase like in the first design, which was too frail to print on a non-resin printer as support...