3D Experiments: Le Man: statue for the Bamboo Skewers cube

I wanted to do more with the Bamboo Skewers Cube. It is great and stabile. The item in the centre is fit for something to do with it. I designed a statue which can be put inside the top hole of the centre piece. Here are some of the designs in Blender.

The statue is 26.6 cm tall and it is 22.6 cm wide. A bit to large to print in one piece so I split the statue in two. Cura says that the bottom part will take 9:09 hours to print and takes 8.01 meter of filament.

The upperpart will be about 8:24 hours and takes 6.5 meter of filament. To be able to print this part I have to rotate it 45 degreeds on the platform. Otherwise the hands will stick outside the borders of the platform and capacity of the Ultimaker.

I started the print in the afternoon about 13:30 and it lastet till around 22:00 hours. The total printtime was 8:24 hours which is half an hour shorter then expected. The print went good. I have been watching the last 10 minutes of the print in the machine. A couple of times the printhead was touching the object so that it moved. Luckely all went ok.

On the next image you see the raft and support material. And when I got it away.

The bottom part fits good into the Bamboo Skewers Cube. Allthough I should have designed the rim more carefully.

The next day I started the print for the upper part around 6:30 am. In the next picture you see the raft material that is being created for the object.

Here after 2:50 hours printtime and 23% is done.

After 3:16 hours it was already working on the hands on the far end of the print. This gave some worries because the printhead touches the part of the hands and moved it....

And here after 6:33 hours of printing and 74% is done. It seems ok. I will certainly have some work to remove the traces of the supportmaterial with the dremel.