Articulated Axolotl with Fuzzy Gills

Hey! I am an axolotl! The Mexica (meh-SHE-cah) people named me in Nahuatl, so you can properly say my name as ah-SHO-lotl; “ah” like “aha,” “sho” like “show” but without the “W”, and “lotl” is like “low” without the “W” and then a combination of the “T” and “L” sound (lay your tongue along the top of your mouth with the tip touching your teeth and make both a “T” and “L” sound at the same time). My name translates to water monster!

I was made to not need any supports, but require a bit of post processing for my gills. You can cut the filaments between my rami to make them equal, discard the filament bridging posts, and if you want, use a soldering iron to soften the part where the rami protrude from my head to bend them outwards for separation. 

Print me as you would any other articulated model (lots of glue, warmer bed, and very slow first layer), my webbed toes add a natural brim that stays on me and the built in bridging posts for my gill filaments also have built in brims. 

You should be able to scale me up, just keep in mind that my gill filaments will be thicker and spaced apart more. I come in a big size that fills up the entire bed area of the i3 MK3S+ with custom gill filaments to fit. 

I was printed as a big model at 0.15 mm layer height on an i3 MK3S+ with a 0.6 mm nozzle so be aware that my .3mfs are set accordingly. I should be perfectly printable at 0.2 mm layers as well but any bigger and my filaments may not slice properly. Going down to 0.1 mm or smaller layers will make them 2+ layers thick; that's not bad, just something to keep in mind.

ENJOY!!!