Celebrate the Christmas Season with a Die Hard Advent Calendar -- Hans falling off Nakatomi Tower! (update)
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Updated version of the Nakatomi Advent Calendar. Some key additions/changes:

  1. Designed a helicopter (Bell UH-1 Iroquois) with rotor blades in the shape of a star for the top of the tower.
  2. Added mushroom cloud to top of building to attach the helicopter at an angle (cloud is reworked Cartoon Broccoli by Idee 3D)
  3. Rebuilt the base to insert an IKEA light (Kapplake LED)
  4. Base is a three-piece base with minimal supports needed for the middle portion. All three pieces sit within each other to easily take apart to turn on the light or replace as necessary.
  5. Created some windows to insert to the sides of the tower and printed in PETG (Translucent) filament so that the light gives a little ambiance. (Print 3 windows in whatever color combinations suit you)
  6. Reworked Hans so that he is falling head-first and readjusted the location of the hole on Tony to match.
  7. Date Sticks have been redesigned to look like Christmas light bulbs. Two versions have been provided – (1) one that would use the “z-hop” method so that the “back” of the stick has a stopper and (2) one that prints with the back flat so that you can do a color change on the front - because of this, the stopper is in the front. Now the sticks don't slide through and are a lot easier to align.

For simplicity, I glued star to the helicopter, the helicopter to the cloud, and cloud to the tower.

Note: this base and tower are interchangeable with the originals, so if you want a tower without the cloud on top but with a lit base or vise versa, you can do it. Same with the date sticks (which were printed in glow-in-the-dark filament for fun when the lights go out)

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