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Here is a Thingiverse link

They are easy to print and can be shaped after for a realistic look. I used a .2 nozzle and dipped the legs in boiling water to bend them to shape.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's really not. It seems daunting, but it's only as complicated as you decide to make it, really. I embrace the little hairs... or snip 'em off... or hair dryer them off... or zap 'em with a lighter. I could probably get technical as hell and set things up so there's no possible way it makes additional hairs or there's any tolerance for errors, but I'm not going to get that much into the minutiae. I print rings/jewelry, tchotchkies, structural stuff, gears for projects, etc.

You can get into the material science, but you don't have to.