The Little Mummy

Hi hi, wonderful people!

This little mummy can conveniently store any number of things in its capacious noggin, and also has a choice of stylish hats with which to accessorise!

What really inspired me to follow this path was partly to make adorable big-eyed mummies, but also just to work out how to represent stylised bandages effectively. The tricky bit is having layers go over each other - and over themselves - convincingly, without increasing the size of the shape we're trying to work with or distort its profile. Making the bandages printable was the easy part - they just needed to be aligned such that the lower bandage overlapped the upper one to avoid overhangs. But achieving that difference in height in the first place was the fun part!

I ended up kind of shaping the bandage profile like a long, tapering wedge so that at the top edge they were full thickness but at the lower edge it thinned out. So, that way we can layer as many as bandages on top of each other as we like!

But let's get back to the stylish accessories. Most obviously we have a top hat and a flowery sun hat, both of which thread onto the little mummy. There's also a bandage-wrapped lid that is intended to complete the head but not make it obvious where the join is once it's closed.

There's also a ring that exists purely to hide the exposed threads and leave the little mummy as a stylish bowl - you can see it in place in the white mummy in the photos. It's not strictly necessary but it does make it look a little more finished!

Print Description

This one's relatively straightforward! If your slicer has an option for variable layer height you might like to give that a try to optimise the curved bits.

Print Dimensions

The main body occupies 147mm x 116mm on the print bed and is 128mm tall.

Supports Needed?

Not at all!  Designed for straightforward printing!

Scalability

This should scale easily up or down and has been tested at 50%

Print Orientation

Everything prints right-way-up except for the eyes and the flower bolt, both of which print upside-down.

File Location

You'll find this one at at 461 The Little Mummy

Link to dropbox post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31697592

Further Thoughts

One decision I did go back and forth on with this design was whether to keep the inside cut-out spherical, like a bowl, or hollow out the body and legs for more space. Hollowing the legs did allow for more room, but it made it much harder to actually fish anything out :) So, I filled it all back in and pretended that never happened in the first place :P

Happy printing!

xoxo

Sven.