Blastoise Wall Art

Thanks to everyone who reached out and asked me to post these. I am hoping to do many many more of these and would love to hear your feedback, suggestions, or any issues you had while printing these.

You will need an AMS/CFS to print this model and there will be multiple pauses and color swaps. If you open this file as a 3mf, the pauses are already included. I also included a How-to below on AMS/CFS color swaps. It's one of those things that once you have done it once, it clicks and just becomes routine. I hope you enjoy and welcome the feedback!

Project: Blastoise.hfp

Print at 100% infill with a layer height of 0.08mm with a base layer of 0.16mm

The Model is 56.18x112.36mm in size. You can resize X and Y asis, but keep Z as is!!

You may print at higher layer heights below the Base Thickness of 1.2mm
The Max allowed Thickness is 4.24mm and the Actual Thickness is 4.24mm

    #000008 PLA Sunlu Black  Transmission Distance: 0.1
    #00061b PLA Sunlu Midnight  Transmission Distance: 0.1
    #351ca5 PLA Sunlu Klein Blue  Transmission Distance: 2.6
    #239eff PLA Sunlu Cyan   Transmission Distance: 0.6
    #43b4ff PLA Sunlu Sky Blue  Transmission Distance: 1.5
    #fff8ae PLA Sunlu Bone White  Transmission Distance: 3
    #ffcb00 PLA Sunlu Yellow  Transmission Distance: 6.5
    #f100b5 PLA eSun Purple  Transmission Distance: 3.9
    #ff87dd PLA Ziro Hot Pink  Transmission Distance: 6.7
    #001892 PLA Sunlu Transparent Blue  Transmission Distance: 26
This print uses 10 unique filaments

Swap Instructions:
    Start with Black
    At layer #20 (1.68mm) swap to Midnight
    At layer #21 (1.76mm) swap to Klein Blue
    At layer #24 (2mm) swap to Cyan 
    At layer #29 (2.4mm) swap to Sky Blue
    At layer #31 (2.56mm) swap to Bone White
    At layer #34 (2.8mm) swap to Yellow
    At layer #37 (3.04mm) swap to Purple
    At layer #38 (3.12mm) swap to Hot Pink
    At layer #47 (3.84mm) swap to Transparent Blue for the rest.

Manual AMS/CFS Color Swap Method

This print uses a staged manual filament swap technique with the AMS/CFS to expand the effective color palette beyond the normal slot limit.

How it works:

• Start the print with the first set of filaments loaded into the AMS/CFS.
• Allow the printer to complete all color changes assigned to a specific slot.
• Once a slot is no longer needed later in the print, pause the print during an inactive layer.
• Remove that filament from the AMS/CFS slot and replace it with a new color.
• Resume printing so the new filament becomes the active color for future layers.

Important:

• The replacement filament MUST be assigned to the SAME AMS/CFS slot as the original filament.
• Only swap after the previous filament is completely finished being used in the print.
• Do NOT remap colors in the slicer mid-print.
• Keeping notes/screenshots of the swap order is strongly recommended.

Why do this?

This technique allows:

• more colors than the physical AMS/CFS limit
• smoother gradients
• better highlight/detail control
• expanded HueForge/FlatForge color blending possibilities

Then I’d add a super short practical example:

Example:
Slot 1 = Black → later swapped to Dark Blue
Slot 2 = White → later swapped to Light Cyan