{"id":13304,"date":"2021-01-04T11:12:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T11:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kirkd.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13304"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:17:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:17:02","slug":"spongebob-squarepants-pineapple-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkd.co.uk\/blog\/spongebob-squarepants-pineapple-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Spongebob Squarepants Pineapple House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you ready kids?
Aye-aye captain.<\/em>
I can’t hear you…
Aye-aye captain!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

OooooOOooo Who lives in a Pineapple under the sea?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s quite enough of that… I wanted to make something fun for my daughter as a Christmas pressie for her Uni flat and stumbled across a planter in the shape of Spongebob Squarepants house on Thingiverse and thought that would be a good idea. Sadly, I can’t remember which one I used and there are several on there if you search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To put in the top, I ordered a pack of Ikea fake plants called Fejka and then took measurements of the pot size. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FEJKA<\/strong> apparently. Ikea’s finest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once I had that worked out I was able to edit the mesh I’d downloaded so it would fit into the print. I also removed the chimney as I didn’t want that printing at the same time. My original plan was to print that seperatly and paint it before gluing into place but I ended up making one from scratch out of metal tubing and Milliput.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I made the insides a bit deeper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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and removed the chimney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then I kicked off the print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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printy printy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And watched it print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And it kept printing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And still it printed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Until it finally finished over TWO DAYS LATER!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d made a bit of a rookie error and not adjusted the print setting much. I wanted the insides to be quite rigid as it may end up with a real plant in it but I may have not worked out my setting properly. Still, it worked out well without any problems with the print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finished at last<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It worked out fine in the end but needed sanding and cleaning up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To paint it, I first primed it then sprayed it yellow. I didn’t like the solid yellow so tried orange. I didn’t like solid orange so sprayed it from above to get a zenithial yellow\/orange combo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The final 3D printed Spongebob Squarepant pineapple house with scratch built chimney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The final piece came out well, but I keep seeing little things I wish I’d spotted when I was sanding it but you don’t notice unless you squint up close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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