LA PIMPA - NO AMS

La PIMPA is a fictional character, protagonist of the comic series of the same name created in 1975 by Italian designer Altan. I am from that era, so it brings back childhood memories. Its shape is that of a white dog with red spots.

I took the original model and first cut off all extremities (hands, feet, ears, tail) with BambuStudio, then extracted all the red spots with Meshmixer. To do this, I started with the model scaled to 200%. The original mesh is probably not very dense, so it would have been better to densify it before extracting the parts.

The final 100% model is about 7 cm tall; some small red parts are very tiny and therefore a bit complicated to glue, but the final result is very good. On the 200% model (I uploaded a specific profile), however, you can see the jagged edges in the red parts: it's still pleasant but not precise.

PRINTING TIPS: for the 100% model, it would be better to print everything with a layer height of 0.16, although the body can be printed at 0.2, while for the 200% model, everything can easily be printed at 0.2

PAY ATTENTION TO THE TONGUE: it is dark red, darker than the other spots.

PAY ATTENTION TO THE EYES: Altan's original design features white eyes on a white body, so the eyes are distinguished from the background only by a thin black outline. This is almost impossible to achieve on such small prints. Therefore, for the 100% model, I opted for an eye color slightly different from the body (a different white, pearl instead of matte, or a light gray), while for the 200% model, I also tried to create the black outline, included as an optional plate.