Stardew Valley Chicken by MrFoolishFox

Last crawled date: 3 years, 5 months ago

This is a little Stardew Valley chicken and base that I made for my girlfriend on Valentine's day.
It was designed so you could print it in colour with a single nozzle and several colour changes, and no supports. I've included a picture of the heights to do colour changes for a full-colour chicken! I made a blue chicken from Shanes 8 heart event, but you could just as easily print this in normal chicken colours, or all in one colour! You do need to print at 0.2mm for the colour changes to work nicely (you could print at 0.1mm and double the number of layers for each colour but it wouldn't make the final product look better)
There's two versions of the chicken, one with a blank back, and the other with a heart embedded. When I printed this I also put my name, I didn't include that version, you can easily import this STL into Fusion 360 or similar and emboss your own name if you would like to have a name on it. I used the 'Vladimir Script' font in Fusion 360 for the name you can see in picture 4.
For a full-colour blue chicken you'll need to do:
0.0 - 2.8mm light blue filament
3.0 - 3.2mm pink filament
3.4 - 3.6mm purple filament
3.8 - 4.0mm yellow filament
4.2 - 4.4mm dark blue filament
I ended up merging the pink and purple layers because I ran out of purple filament, but it still came out fine. I had a load of 3D pen sample filament which helped me not have to buy full rolls of each of these colours, but I would NOT recommend doing this as 3D pen filament is much lower quality than proper filament, and I had a nightmare getting this to print because of stringing and layer adhesion issues.
I'd recommend using PrusaSlicer to slice this simply because it makes the colour changing process much easier. The only thing you'll need to check is whether your printer supports the M600 gcode (colour change gcode), which seems to be supported on Marlin 2.0 upwards from a brief google, so if you're on an older Ender machine then you may need to do a firmware update.
There is a guide on Prusa's website here: https://help.prusa3d.com/en/article/color-change_1687
It's possible to set up in Cura or other slicers, but would likely be a lot more fiddly.
For the base, you may need to scale it slightly, this size worked for me on my Prusa MK3s, but you may need 102% scaling of the base to make the chicken fit. Very easy to print a few test pieces in different sizes until you find one that works for you.
Please do post any makes of this, I would love to see them!
Happy printing!