Owl Planter

Model

Cute stylized owl planter with interchangeable eyes for different expressions. Fits a 70mm diameter pot at 100% scale. Upscaling should only be limited by your printing bed size, so feel free to print a 500% version (or larger? :D). Downscaling is limited by the tolerances and printability of the eyes and beak of course, and the pot hole will become very small and not fit any pot/plant anymore.

The model has a cutout at the bottom to let some excess water out of the pot to prevent your plants from drowning. But I also uploaded a version without this cutout if you prefer. I also uploaded a .step for you to further modify the planter if you want.

The planter can express different emotions depending on your choice of eyes. I have sorted the necessary files into folders. There is "side look", "straight look", "done with your shit" look, "surprised", “eye rolling”, “squint”, and "possessed". But there may be more in the future if the model gets good feedback or based on your suggestions. You find pictures of the different expressions mentioned (and some more) in the picture section here. Of course, you can model your own and easily modify them. You can also swap some of the eyes to create new expressions with the existing files.

The eyes and beak are press fit so depending on your tolerances they might go in smoother or less smooth. If you can't fit them without great force just print them again at a slightly lower scale (0.1-0.2mm smaller) or really scale them down and glue them in place if you don't intend to change them later. They are very small and don't take much time to print.

Printing

To print the eyes with different colors just import the file/files into the slicer and choose “import as different bodies”. Then you can just delete the parts of the eyes you don't want to print in the colors your printing at the moment.

Print the planter standing and the beak and eyes on the flat sides.

Colors I used:

• Esun BoneWhite for the planter
• Prusa Magic Brown for the eyelids
• Creality White and Creality Black for the eyes

I have also tried wood-filled filament for the planter, but there is a bit more troubleshooting involved with the print quality on my printer with this particular filament. But I thought this would be a nice model for it, so I thought I would bring it up as an idea for you.

My print settings:

• 0.12mm layers with 1mm top and bottom solid layers
• 0.4mm nozzle
• 3 perimeters
• 15% adaptive cubic infill
• Organic supports on the beak- and eye-holes of the planter (enable “supports on build-plate” and it will detect the spots automatically); The beak-hole requires supports, with the eye-holes your might get away without, but supports will improve the fit of the eyes