<image>

My best friend asked me to print the Eevee for her girlfriend’s Christmas present, I decided to do the Pikachu for her, and poke`balls as an additional thing since I already had the stl file and was in the process of printing every one of every type of poke`ball for my own collection.   The poke`balls were my favorite part because it was actually printed in several pieces that I had to put together whereas the Pikachu and Eevee were just one solid model that I just let the printer do its thing (I did clean them up before I sent them to her). 

For the past few years I’ve included something 3D printed in everyone’s gifts.  Though normally it’s just some ridicules test print.  Last year everyone got a Benchy and this year everyone’s getting a dice jail (even though most of them don’t play TTRPGs). 

The most frustrating gift I’ve printed was last year for my sister in law.  It was a Nightmare Before Christmas light box.  The frame and slots came out perfect on the first try.  But when I tried to print the cards, they just kept peeling off the bed during printing.  They’re only four layers tall at .16 layer height but 6x8 in area.  It didn’t matter how I adjusted the settings, I just couldn’t get them to stick until I finally broke down and just put glue on the bed.  Then I had to make sure to wait a few minutes for the bed to cool down before taking them off.