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Gengar NES: three colors, separate pieces.
A purple body, two red eyes, and eight white teeth and fangs: the next approach prints the colors separately, then brings them together in shaped glue-in sockets.
The Gengar-inspired NES build is moving to separate color pieces. The current design has eleven parts: one purple body, two red eye inserts, six rounded white teeth and two white fangs. That gives each color its own print job instead of changing filament repeatedly through a single multicolor body print.
The goal is less color-change waste and more control over the small face pieces. The eyes and teeth locate in shaped sockets and are glued in after a dry fit. These are glue-fit inserts, not snap-fit parts. The assembly plan starts with the two fangs, then the other teeth and eyes.
The latest purple-body preparation keeps the approved shape while using finer 0.12 mm layers and slower visible surfaces to improve the finish around the head and hands. The fitted NES carrier is unchanged.
The first purple attempt also gave us useful physical feedback: its supports were too tough to remove, and I stopped the print. I’m going to test small, representative support-removal pieces before another full-body attempt. Support contact and access around the hands and sockets need to work in practice, not just look acceptable in a slicer.
That support revision is still ahead. The previous body slice will not be repeated as-is, and the separate inserts and finished assembly still need physical fit checks. The drawing below shows the chosen separate-pieces design; it is a CAD assembly preview, not a completed purple print.
The earlier orange-and-green printed build stays in the gallery as part of the project’s history. This next version is about making the color work and assembly more practical while keeping that same grin over the cartridge opening.
