Its The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!

Fall has arrived and as we enter October one cannot help but reminisce that the Great Pumpkin will soon bring gifts for all the children! (or so we have been told).

The Charlie Brown Short “The Great Pumpkin” is one of those all-time classics most people look forward to. So, we decided to try our hand at creating outdoor (or indoor) depictions of this famous cartoon. Each week, we will be making available one (or more) of the characters. If you would like to get started giving it a try, here is what you will need……

Things You Will Need:

1. The Snoopy Download. You can get it here
   

   Download: The Great Pumpkin - Snoopy and Friends

   1 file(s) 6.28 MB

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2. One or more of the following PLA colors:
   1. Black
   2. White
   3. Orange
   4. “Skin tone”
   5. Blue
   6. Red
   7. Green

You should also be able to paint these figures instead if you choose, as we are going with a “different layer height” concept for printing them. So painting them (by hand) should be pretty easy.

If you would like suggested vendor links for the above colors, here they are:

1. Jayo PLA+ Black
2. Jayo PLA+ White
3. 3D Fila Orange
4. Jayo “Skin tone”
5. Solutech Real Blue
6. 3D Fila Red
7. CERPRiSE Green

Printing

We have set up each print so that any standard FDM printer will work using 20% infill with a .2 layer height. Where each color change needs to take place, the filament layer is at a different height. So, when printing, you have a couple of options.

1. Print using different color filaments, pausing the filament at the appropriate layer, and changing it. Check out are article “Lets Make Tracks” on this if you need help on how this is done (https://www.imagination-3d.com/adapted-designs-lets-make-tracks/)
2. Print it all in one “base color” and then paint the rest. For each of the figures, we would recommend a base filament color of black.

Scaling The Great Pumpkin

If you decided to scale the print up (or down) we would recommend the following scales. This area will be updated as each character becomes available:

Snoopy:

1. Indoor “coaster” size
   1. Scale x and y at 53%, but keep z at 100%
2. Outdoor “max size” (if, say you have a 300mm x 300mm bed printer)
   1. Scale x and y at 125% but keep z at 100% (6.01mm)

This will allow you to always be at the same layer change heights.

Linus:

1. Indoor “coaster” size
   1. Scale x and y at 42%, but keep z at 100%(11mm)
2. Outdoor “max size” (if, say you have a 300mm x 300mm bed printer)
   1. Scale x, y and z at 100%

Charlie Brown:

1. Indoor “coaster” size
   1. Scale x and y at 69%, but keep z at 100%(12mm)
2. Outdoor “max size” (if, say you have a 300mm x 300mm bed printer)
   1. Scale x, y and z at 147%

Sally:

1. Indoor “coaster” size
   1. Scale x and y at 30%, but keep z at 100%(13mm)
2. Outdoor “max size” (if, say you have a 300mm x 300mm bed printer)
   1. Scale x, y and z at 65%

Lucy:

1. Indoor “coaster” size
   1. Scale x and y at 35%, but keep z at 100%(11mm)
2. Outdoor “max size” (if, say you have a 300mm x 300mm bed printer)
   1. Scale x, y and z at 65%

Color Layer Change Heights

Snoopy:

1. 0-3mm black stops at layer 11 change to white
2. 4mm white stops at layer 14 change to orange until print finishes.

Linus:

1. 0-3mm black stops. Layer 11 starts white filament for sign
2. 5mm white stops. Layer 18 starts skin tone filament for face and hand
3. 7mm skin tone stops. Layer 24 begins dark red for shirt.
4. 9mm dark red stops. Layer 31 begins orange for pumpkin. Continue to end of print.

Charlie Brown:

1. 0-3mm black stops. Layer 12 starts white filament for his sheet
2. 7mm white stops. Layer 19 starts brown filament for the bag he is carrying
3. 9mm the brown stops. Layer 26 begins gray for the rock he is holding.
4. 11mm gray stops. Layer 34 begins skin tone for his hand. Continue to end of print.

Sally:

1. 0-3mm black stops. Layer 11 starts skin tone filament for her arms and legs
2. 5mm skin tone stops. Layer 18 starts yellow filament for her hair
3. 7mm the yellow stops. Layer 24 begins blue for her bow and dress.
4. 9mm blue stops. Layer 31 begins orange filament for pumpkin.
5. 11mm orange stops. Layer 38 begins green filament for grass which continues until the end.

Lucy:

1. 0-3mm black stops. Layer 12 starts white filament for sheet, eyes, hand
2. 5mm white stops. Layer 19 starts green filament for mask
3. 7mm the green stops. Layer 25 begins yellow under her eyes
4. 9mm yellow stops. Layer 32 begins red for hat until the end.

Outdoor Mounting

If you wish to mount your characters outside, we came up with a bracket that you can glue to the back of each “full size” character. Glue the bracket, with the holes facing down, like this:

There are two holes in each bracket. These have been designed to use standard Dollar store foam brush handles. It’s a cheap effective way to display our outdoor signs.

We hope you enjoy displaying your Peanuts characters. Be sure to watch each week as new ones show up. And stay tuned. Who knows, perhaps we will do a set for Christmas!

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