![]() ![]() If you can't cut yours down to fit but are comfortable altering the model, the Tinkercad project is linked in the next step for precisely that reason! If, like mine, your watch case has some ornamental extras that make it a bit too big/oddly shaped for the project, you'll need to remove these - I used my Dremel to grind these parts down but you may be able to just cut them away with snippers or sand them down!.Now we need to make sure the watch will fit onto the mounting block we're going to print - I printed mine first to show you what I mean!.First, remove the watch strap - how you do this will vary watch to watch but mine was just held on with some little rings so I just removed those as shown!.I used a Dremel for this step just as I have one and it's much quicker than hand sanding but if you don't have access to a Dremel, you can use a file or sandpaper instead - I'd recommend picking a watch that doesn't need much altering if that's your plan though, sanding can take some time so you may as well save yourself some work by picking a watch that needs as little modification as possible! If you're using a watch like I am then we need to get it looking less like a watch and more like a clock face! If you're printing the clock face rather than using a watch, you can skip this step and I'll see you in the next one! :) They do use standard doll's house scale for the branded furniture I think buuut they're not always to scale with their furniture and this was built around the figures so you may need to make a few adjustments if you're printing for a doll's house or diorama etc. This clock was designed from scratch in Tinkercad and stands at about 30 x 40 x 100mm and is just right for Sylvanian Families/Calico Critters but would make an adorable desktop clock too!. In that vein, there is also a 'not working' version of this clock which is 100% 3D printed for anyone who doesn't want to be buying extra bits but I had a cheap old watch lying around anyway so I thought, why not make use of it?! I find it really frustrating when I find a printing project I like and it turns out it's only 80% printed and you need nuts and bolts and hinges and all manner of tools to make it so I try to make my projects easy to print and make sure they use as few extra bits of hardware as possible so they're nice and accessible to hobby printers like myself! Before we get started I just want to explain what I mean by 'working' as I couldn't really get into details in the title!! When I say this is working, I mean it keeps time - the pendulum doesn't move and it won't chime (unless you manage to find a watch that chimes)! ![]()
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