Hippety Hopper, a cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of short films produced by Warner Bros.

He is a baby kangaroo but is mistaken for a giant mouse by Sylvester the Cat, Frequently, Hopper changes places with an actual mouse, generally when it is most embarrassing for Sylvester.

No supports are required. One piece contains built-in supports and braces. An optional part without the built-in supports/braces is also supplied if you want to use your slicer supports (see notes below). If you have the proper filament colors, no painting is needed.

The assembled model is 195mm tall and is mostly in proportion to my previously released Looney Tunes models.

Enjoy!

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Special shoutout to maker Benoît Lussier for providing QA printing and quality feedback.

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**Print Instructions:**
Supports: No
Resolution: .2mm
Infill: 10%

Notes:**

Refer to the notes below for a few helpful printing and assembly instructions.

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**Building the model**

Colors
(your colors may vary, as this character has changed quite a bit over the years)

Black: (Paramount3D PLA - Black)
eye_black_right
eye_black_left
eyebrow_right
eyebrow_left
nose
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Dark Red: (Paramount3D PLA - Iron Red)
tongue
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Red: (Hatchbox PLA - True Red)
glove_right
glove_left
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White: (Overture PLA - White)
eye_white_left
eye_white_right
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Medium Brown: (Polymaker PLA - Army Brown)
body_bottom
body_top
body_top_withoutsupports
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Dark Brown: (Hatchbox PLA - Brown)
mouth
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Light Brown: (Polymaker PLA - Army Beige)
ear_right
ear_left
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**Printing and assembly tips**

Printing tips
1 - No supports are required. One piece contains built-in supports and braces, body_top. An optional part without the built-in supports/braces are also supplied if you want to use your slicer supports. The built-in supports are designed for a .4mm nozzle and for the size that the model is presented. Use your discretion for which parts to use if you resize the model significantly.

2-**Special note**
The area of the head that is printed with supports is quite flatish (slow curve) and therefore I was not able to get a smooth finish for that area. Adaptive layer heights for just the area of the head that is supported 'might' produce better results but may also result in the supports acting differently. It's a multi-hour print, so I just wanted to be upfront about the challenge.
Care should be taken when removing the built-in supports. Mine came off all in one piece. Benoit decided to cut the tall supports for individual removal.

3- There are some pieces that may need brims or rafts, use your discretion. When setting up my prints I prefer to be conservative to ensure the least chance of a print failure, especially since the base of many parts are hidden when inserted into another part.

*I used brims on:
- (no parts required brims or rafts)

4 - When removing parts from the printer bed, it's a **VERY** good idea to place left/right parts into separate containers to help with the assembly process. Sometimes the difference between the left and right parts is very small but it is still worth keeping track of them and assembling them in their proper place.

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Assembly tips:

1 - Take your time gluing the model together and enjoy the process. Give some thought into which parts to glue together as groups and then gluing the groups together. Let the glue for each group set completely before combining groups.

2 - I used 3D Gloop and E6000 to put this model together. I am not affiliated with 3D Gloop but have experimented with different glues for my models and have found that this glue is a great option for my models. Each type of glue has different pros/cons and I found that 3D Gloop was far easier to use than superglue (for me). The E6000 sticky glue that I also use allows more time to position parts and is still the best for smaller parts. 3D Gloop covers the middle ground for me and really works wonders. It leaves enough time to set, so parts can be positioned correctly and it dries fast enough to hold awkward parts without the need for taping. I used the PLA version that comes in a tube. For both glues using a smaller amount is usually better than more glue.

3 - Assembly is straight forward, no special advice is needed.

4 - Refer to the assembly diagrams in the pictures section as well as the uploaded pictures for putting the model together. The model is meant to be glued.

Do not hesitate to ask questions, feedback is essential to making better models.