Merfork

Description

A king triton-like merman (male mermaid), supposed to hold a real fork instead of a trident.

The fork hole is enough for, at least, a fork with a body of 1.5cm max-width, 0.2cm depth, and around 15cm length (Not counting the fork head).

Model finishes

The trunk is quite polished.

Arms look quite good, with realistic-looking muscles, even if probably measures aren't right.

Hands and fingers aren't well polished. Separating fingers could make the print worse or less resistant to the fork weight, so kept them slightly plain.

The head is plain. No hair included.

The tail doesn't have details, and it fins are very simple.

The crown could be improved.

The base is simply a high quality cylinder, and the fork holder doesn't really represent anything.

Files

Blender file included, with:

• A collection of the final product parts (Body, base, and base fork holder)
• A collection of the non-joined saved parts (Body, arms, hands). They require extra polishing to join
• The complete printable object. Select it when exporting
• A sample fork with said measures

The STL contains the complete printbale object.

How to print

• Supports required. Consider using organic supports (Prusa) or similar.
  • Required for
    • Arms and fingers
    • Head chin
    • The tail fins
  • (Optional) Set a 45% overhang threshold to avoid adding supports on the crown. You can also slightly modify the crown, or simply keep the supports
• Make was printed with:
  • Prusament PLA (Vanilla white)
  • 0.20mm layer height
  • 20% infill (Adaptative cubic)
  • Organic supports from the build plate
  • Print time: 12-13h