Kids Fishing Game

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After stumbling across the design for a cool looking trout on the CNC Forum by mhackney, I have been wanting to print a fishing game for my kids for a while. I finally spent the time to print off a whole lot of them as well as create a simple fishing rod and lure to use with them. Both my little kids are enjoying playing with them. Hope someone else finds them useful. Print Settings Printer Brand: SeeMeCNC Printer: Rostock MAX Rafts: No Supports: No Infill: 20% Notes: Printed in PLA with no support. Should be simple to print. The fish are printed with 0 solid top and bottom layers and using a variety of infill patterns to create different fish. They scale well from 0.7 to 1.5 to create a variety of different sized fishes. (Daddy/Mummy and brother fishes according to my little boy). The lure and rod are printed with 20% infill. Watch the height of the rod as it may be too high for some printers. Can always be cut in half and glued together. The lure has a small square hole at the bottom which will take a 3mm x 3mm x 3mm magnet. It does not need support when you print it as it has an angled top. The magnet was a tight fit on mine so used a flat piece of metal (well a hammer) to press it in. If it is loose on yours please glue it in otherwise it will come out. You need a couple things besides the 3D printed parts.... 3mm x 3mm x 3mm Magnet - I used Rare Earth Neodymium Magnets N35 3mm x 3mm x 3mm (search on ebay). I had a whole lot of them lying around from another project. They work great and can take the weight of the fish up to 1.5 scale easily. Metal washers for the eyes - I had a number of them left over from another project. Any small metal washers will probably work. If you really want to, you could use different sized ones depending on the size of the fish so they look better as eyes. Glue - Used Fast setting Epoxy glue for the eyes which worked well. String - To tie the lure to the rod - A fairly short piece of string worked well for me.