Gabby's Dollhouse Meow Meow Mailbox and Suprise Box

Gabby's Dollhouse Meow Meow Mailbox and Suprise Box

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0.2mm layer, 3 walls, 10% infill
0.2mm layer, 3 walls, 10% infill
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5 plates
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This is my attempt at the Meow-Meow Mailbox and a Surprise Box from Netflix's Gabby's Dollhouse.

 

There are two versions of the mailbox:

  1. A fully enclosed mailbox with a door, which will fit 2 surprise boxes front to back.
  2. A backless mailbox with a stop in it so it can be used with the mailbox sled. This is intended to hold just one surprise box and the sled.

The backless version is intended to be used with tracks like in the show (which I have not modeled and printed yet). The surprise box fits snugly in the sled, which has no front. The sled and surprise box roll into the back of the mailbox and hit a stop inside once they are fully inside. Upon hitting the stop, the surprise box slides off the sled into the front half of the mailbox. When the child opens the mailbox, they see the surprise box ready for them to grab, and the sled stays in the back of the box.

 

In the print profile, there are several plates:

  1. The first plate is the surprise box and lid, which are meant to be printed in white and painted. The show has many variations of the surprise box depending on the episode, and a white box can be painted, glittered and otherwise decorated easily.
  2. The second plate is the full mailbox with a back. I printed this with Bambu Matte PLA Lilac Purple, Ice Blue, and regular white PLA. It is sliced so that the colors switch by layer where possible, to keep material changes to a minimum.
  3. The third plate is the backless mailbox with endstop. This uses the same slicing and colors as the other mailbox.
  4. The fourth plate is the door. I used pink for the heart, beige for the handle, and dark matte blue for the door. The door needs to be painted with glitter glue to match the show so the color isn't very important, but I found the blue looked nice once the glitter was applied. The door and mailbox are printed with a 1/16" hole meant for a dowel pin. I drilled one of the holes to 1.75mm manually to use filament as a hinge and that did work fine, but you will need the drill bit.
  5. The fifth plate is the sled and wheels. They can be any color, but I think whites and greys would probably look best. The wheels are held on with M3 screws that were tightened down snug, then pulled back 1/8-1/4 turn.

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I am curious if anyone changed slicer options when printing this model. I got issues around the corners of the mailbox...and it seems to have been in the way it was sliced. Using a P1S with a 0.4mm nozzle
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Are you talking about the supports? The ears are only at the front of the mailbox. the rest of the ears in your photo (the part with the slots in it) is support material that should be removed.
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Replying to @IJMW :
I would like to go on record that....I am an idiot. So sorry did not realize it was supports. I removed it looks great! Small stringing on the back of the "ears" but I am assuming that's cuz I left the supports on for too long.
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Replying to @user_1548808017 :
No worries, its not obvious when the colors all match up like that. The backs of the ears look like you may need to calibrate your support offsets or extrusion. I have had great success with the bambu defaults but I know a few people who have had to perform extrusion calibration or print a few cal prints for support offset. Mine printed nice and smooth so if you are willing to do some cal and reprint it, you could get a better finish. Based on the mismatched band diameters, it may be an extrusion cal issue.
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some printing issue with top of the box.... 😭
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Is that PLA? I havent seen that issue but I only print in bambu pla basic so its possible the material you used is more prone to warping.
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This thing is SO cute. Daughter loves it. I scaled it down a bit and everything still prints fine.
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Great print. I scaled down to 80% and it worked great.
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Amazing model! Took 15 hours to print, my biggest to date, but well worth it given the end result.
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