Gingerbread House Snap-Fit Kit - Multicolor, No Glue

A gingerbread house that comes off the printer fully coloured. No painting and no glue. Comes with 2 print profiles: 4- and 5-color versions. Seven parts snap together in a few minutes. The walls click into the base, the side walls slide into grooves in the gables, and the two roof halves press onto small pegs on top of the gables. The house is 174 x 174 mm and about 170 mm tall. Design idea I wanted the classic iced gingerbread house look straight from the printer: puffy white icing, red and white candy cane posts, gumdrops in the snow, a brick chimney and scalloped roof tiles. Every candy and every icing line is one clean colour, with the colour borders hidden in the grooves, so the print looks hand-decorated. Splitting the house into flat parts means every decorated face prints facing up. That keeps the details sharp, and the snap legs and roof pegs lie along the layers so they do not break. What is included - Plate 1: both roof halves, one with the chimney

- Plate 2: front gable with the door, and the side wall with 1 window

- Plate 3: back gable, and the side wall with 2 windows

- Plate 4: the base

- Assembly guide (PDF): 8 pages with pictures of every step

Colours This print file uses 4 colours: brown, white, red and green. The photos show my 5-colour test print, which has a few pink candies; in this 4-colour version those candies are red and green. Assembly - Press the front gable (door) straight down into the base until its 3 legs click.

- Do the same with the back gable.

- Slide the left wall (1 window) down between the gables. Its small keys go into the grooves in the gables, and its 2 legs click into the base.

- Do the same with the right wall (2 windows).

- Put the chimney roof on at a right angle to the roof slope, not straight down, so its holes go over the 4 pegs.

- Put the plain roof on the same way. Slide it in under the icing edge of the chimney roof at the ridge.

The full guide with pictures is in the instruction files. Printing tips - Remove the supports carefully, especially near the snap legs.

- Trim any elephant foot from the snap legs and roof pegs so they fit without force.

- Try the front gable in the base first. If it snaps in well, the rest will too.

- A gap of about 1 mm under the roof at the front gable is normal.