Balsa Wasp

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First try on making a multi color fishing fly named "Balsa Wasp". The waps-file is for one color printing. The other two are for multi color printing. The orginal pattern is black and purple. It should work great with black and yellow also. Try to get as little infill as your printer could handle. It needs air for buoyancy. I printed with 0% infill. Use some grizzly hackle in front of the body. It is possible to use your slicer to adjust how "fat" and long your wasp is. You should use some epoxy glue to attach the body to your fly hook. My intension is to print in yellow ABS and then use some acteon vapor to make the modell smooth. After that I will use a permanent black marker to make the rings on the body. The picture of the test print was done in white ABS and then I used yellow paint. Not a good solution, since the permanent marker made the paint goey.