FITA – Skull Bound by a Golden Ribbon

FITA is a display sculpture: a true-to-life human skull bound by a single golden ribbon. The ribbon rises from the base, wraps the skull in two floating loops, slips into the right eye socket and escapes through the crown in a last twist. It is one continuous band from start to finish, with no joins and no glued parts. WHAT YOU GET - 2-colour project: the skull and base in ivory, the ribbon in gold. One object with two parts, so it prints in one go on any AMS or dual-nozzle printer.

- 1-colour project: the same model in a single filament. Looks great in white, bone, marble or silk silver.

SIZE 127 x 166 x 222 mm (W x D x H). Fits any 256 mm class printer. PRINT SETTINGS (made and tested on a Bambu Lab X2D, 0.4 mm nozzle) - 0.16 mm layers, 3 walls, 12% gyroid infill

- Tree supports (auto), threshold 30 degrees. Supports print in the skull colour, so the gold filament is only used on the ribbon.

- 2-colour: about 23 h, 299 g ivory + 89 g gold

- 1-colour: about 14 h, 285 g

- PLA. Silk gold or a metallic PLA gives the ribbon its shine.

TIPS - Leave the supports under the jaw and the front loop. Remove them slowly with pliers: the ribbon is thin where it floats.

- A brim is set to auto. Keep it on if your bed is not freshly cleaned.

- Use a matte ivory or bone PLA for the skull to make the gold stand out.

CREDITS AND LICENSE The skull is based on "High quality skull" by Mariano Coretti (DrCoretti), Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:High_quality_skull.stl The ribbon, base, pose and print profiles are my own work. This remix is shared under the same license, CC BY-SA 4.0. If you print one, please post a Make. A Boost helps me keep designing free models. Thank you!