My youngest son is currently obsessed with the planets, and I stumbled across a make for Saturn and its rings. I was looking for a nice make to try out the multi-material capability of my new 3D printer, where it can swap between four materials through the print, and this was the perfect opportunity. I used a few filament swaps to produce a stripey effect as the two hemispheres printed – I chose to only do whole layers in each colour – it could do partial layers, but the complexity wasn’t worth it, and each swap adds quite a bit of time to the print. Overall this took about two hours + 30 mins of prep in the slicer.

Ingredients

Materials

• CC3D Lemon Yellow PLA [Unavailable]
• Bambu Orange PLA Basic [Link]
• Bambu Beige PLA Basic [Link]
• eSun Black PLA+ [Link]
• Super Glue

Resources

• Saturn and Cassini Rings (3D Print by PrintedLabs) [Link]

Tools

• BambuLabs P1S with AMS [Link]

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