Robot Action Figure - One Piece Print - 19 Points of Articulation

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Action figures are great, robots are great, and action figure robots are double great. You know what's not great? Assembling things. Adding rubber bands/pins/glue, all of that is not so great. There has to be a better way! Well now there is: He can stand, he can kneel, he can make all the great poses you've always wanted to do! I only wish all the action figures I grew up with had this level of pose-ability. It's ORANGE BOT! IF PEOPLE LIKE ORANGE BOT HE WILL BE FOLLOWED WITH ACCESSORIES / VEHICLE / VILLAIN FIGURES I was wandering through Thingiverse when I came across this:http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:618752 I thought it looked really cool, but wandering through the comments I found people were having trouble printing it. So I took a gander at the file and for my set-up, it was full of gaps in the model, stray planes/lines and what not and it had several joint types. I tried to print it, didn't fit together, so I tried printing it 3x as big to see if my printer isn't accurate enough for something as small as the original model, still didn't fit together. I'm a bit of a clean-model snob so I was going to fix it, but then I decided to just build a new one from scratch. The whole figure prints (with supports) in one piece and has 19 points of articulation, each with a ball and socket joint. It pops off the print bed ready to pose and play. All you have to do is give each of the joints a spin to break any internal supports and it's good to go. Please expand the photos to see them full size (it seems to be cutting off parts in the preview). As usual i'm printing on LOW quality and with as little infill as possible because i'm cheap! But if you have a decent infill and print on med/high quality he should look pretty great! I'll upload a video of the print, removal from the print bed, and immediate posing of the figure. Here's the thing (skip to 50 seconds in):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWBjVHjzMQA&feature=youtu.be Update 1 - Decided to turn this generic robot into Optimus Prime (because why not) so that will be along shortly. Preview image up there of work in progress.