Dusty the Camel - Low Poly ZOO

Hello, my name is Dusty

A calm, curious low-poly Bactrian camel, built for multi-material FDM printing. About 1 300 flat facets and four colours - sandy gold, warm brown, white and black - with two proud humps and a coat of big brown patches.

Every patch is its own set of flat facets, so the pattern prints crisp and clean instead of fuzzy.

Dusty is part of my Low Poly ZOO series - animals made in the same style, scale and colour language, so they look good together on a shelf.

What you get

Three pre-painted project files with the colours already assigned as MMU painting. Open the one for your printer in PrusaSlicer, load your filaments and print - no manual painting needed.

• Camel_CORE_One_INDX_8T.3mf - Prusa CORE One INDX, 8 tools - all four colours

• Camel_XL_5T.3mf - Original Prusa XL, 5 toolheads - all four colours

• Camel_CORE_One_INDX_4T.3mf - Prusa CORE One INDX, 4 tools - all four colours

On a printer with two tools, print the gold body and the brown patches and leave the white and black parts in the body colour - the patches make it a camel.

Recommended filaments

Prusament PLA: a sandy gold or mustard for the coat, Noctua Brown for the patches, humps and hooves, Pristine White for the muzzle, ear and ankles and Jet Black for the eye and nostril. Any colours work - a white camel or a candy-coloured one is a filament swap away.

See it before you print it Preview3D opens 3D models and G-code the way Quick Look opens a PDF - on a Mac, an iPad, an iPhone and Apple Vision Pro. Point your camera at the code and this camel stands on your own table in AR, at the size it will actually print. Nothing to install: it opens as an App Clip, shows the model, and leaves. Check the fit before the filament. See how big a print really is next to the shelf it is meant for. Open what can't preview. STEP, painted 3MF, STL, OBJ, glb, glTF, FBX and about a dozen more - plus G-code with a layer slider. Thumbnails in the Finder and Files, so a folder of downloads stops looking like a folder of blank pages. Publishing a model yourself? Make the same animation for it at preview3d.xfanta.com/qr - paste your model's link and get a QR code and a ready-made GIF for every file in it. Free, and it runs in your browser.

Print settings

• Size: about 116 × 44 × 115 mm as delivered (length × width × height)

• Layer height: 0.2 mm (0.15 mm for smoother facets)

• Nozzle: 0.4 mm

• Infill: 10-15 %, any pattern

• Supports: only about 7 % of the surface overhangs. Let PrusaSlicer add organic supports where it suggests them; they leave almost no marks on the flat facets.

• Orientation: as in the 3MF, standing on its four feet. The contact area is small (about 370 mm² in total), so use a brim - it comes off the flat hoof faces cleanly.

• Scaling: delivered at about 115 mm tall. The thinnest parts are the legs and the neck, so don't scale it down; scale up freely.

Show your print

Post your colour combinations as a Make under this model - I'd love to see them.

Please don't re-upload the model itself: recoloured copies published as new models (here or elsewhere) aren't allowed.

More animals from the ZOO series are coming - follow if you want the whole herd.