Peppermint Patty
Peppermint Patty, from the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz.
Peppermint Patty is one of a small group in the comic strip who live across town from Charlie Brown and his school friends. She has freckles and "mousy-blah" hair, and generally displays the characteristics of a tomboy.
Some supports are required on one part, hair. See notes for specific very helpful printing and assembly tips.
If you have the proper filament colors, no painting is needed.
The assembled model is 150 mm tall and is in proportion to my other previously released Peanuts characters.
Enjoy!
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Special shoutout to maker Benoît Lussier for providing QA printing and quality feedback.
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Print Instructions:
Supports: YES on one part, see specific instructions below
Resolution: .2mm
Infill: 15%
Notes:**
Refer to the notes below for a few helpful printing and assembly instructions.
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Building the model
Colors
Black: (Devil Designs PLA - Black)
mouth
eyes (file contains two pieces)
eyebrow_right
eyebrow_left
ball_stripes (file contains two identical pieces)
stripes_bottom_right (file contains seven DIFFERENT pieces)
stripes_bottom_left (file contains seven DIFFERENT pieces)
stripes_top_right (file contains six DIFFERENT pieces)
stripes_top_left (file contains six DIFFERENT pieces)
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White: (Devil Designs PLA - White)
ball
pants_white (file contains two pieces)
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Skin: (Paramount3D PLA - Universal Beige)
head
arm_right
arm_left
foot_right_front
foot_right_back
foot_left_front
foot_left_back
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Brown: (BambuLab PLA - Brown)
shoe_right
shout_left
glove
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Blue: (BambuLab PLA - Blue)
pants_blue
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Medium Brown: (Ploymaker PLA - Wood Brown)
freckles
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Green: (Anycubic PLA - Green)
shirt
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Light Brown/Yellow: (BambuLabs PLA Wood - Ochre Yellow)
hair
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Printing and assembly tips
Printing tips
1 - Supports ARE required on one part.
(note: some slicers consider the support angle where 90deg is vertical and other slicers consider 0 deg as vertical. I use my suggestions based on 90 deg as vertical)
*supports: default 30 deg organic/tree supports
- hair
2 - There are some pieces that may need brims or rafts, use your discretion. When setting up my prints I prefer to be conservative to ensure the least chance of a print failure, especially since the base of many parts are hidden when inserted into another part. Rafts also ensure that the first layer of small parts will have a better fit for my models.
*I used brims on:
- hand_right
- hand_left
*I used a raft on:
- freckles (they are extremely small and the raft helps manage them)
- eyebrow_right
- eyebrow_left
3 - When removing parts from the printer bed, it's a VERY good idea to place left/right parts into separate containers to help with the assembly process. Sometimes the difference between the left and right parts is very small but it is still worth keeping track of them and assembling them in their proper place.
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Assembly tips:
1 - Take your time gluing the model together and enjoy the process. Give some thought into which parts to glue together as groups and then gluing the groups together. Let the glue for each group set completely before combining groups.
2 - I used 3D Gloop (strong fast drying) and E6000 (tacky slow drying) glues to put this model together. For both glues using a smaller amount is usually better than more glue.
3 - important for all my models, be sure to dry fit all parts before gluing.
4 - Stripes, so many stripes! For convenience, the stripes are organized in four sections. I removed each individual part, from one section at a time, and put it on a piece of tape in the same order it was printed. See the second assembly diagram for putting the stripes into the shirt.
The stripes all fit with the surface following the curve of the shirt.
5 - I found it more convenient to put all the smaller parts into the head before attaching the hair to the head. The head fits into the hair and may just need a little extra force when assembling.
6 - The head/hair group fits into the arms when assembled. To ensure the best fit, glue in the head/hair into the shirt the same time the arms are glued to the shirt.
4 - Refer to the assembly diagrams in the pictures section as well as the uploaded pictures for putting the model together. The model is meant to be glued.
Do not hesitate to ask questions, feedback is essential to making better models.
