Sally the Salamander - Low Poly ZOO

Hello, my name is Sally

A glossy black low-poly fire salamander with bold yellow spots and a curled tail, built for multi-material FDM printing. About 1 400 flat facets and a warning-paint colour scheme - black body, yellow spots, red accents and small tan details.

Every spot is its own set of flat facets, so the pattern prints crisp and clean instead of fuzzy - the spots are what makes this one pop.

Sally 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.

• Salamander_CORE_One_INDX_8T.3mf - Prusa CORE One INDX, 8 tools - all colours

• Salamander_XL_5T.3mf - Original Prusa XL, 5 toolheads - all colours

• Salamander_CORE_One_INDX_4T.3mf - Prusa CORE One INDX, 4 tools - colours merged where needed

On a printer with two tools, print the black body and the yellow spots - that is already a fire salamander.

Recommended filaments

Prusament PLA: Galaxy Black or Jet Black for the body, a bright yellow for the spots, a deep red for the accents and a light beige or tan for the small details. Any colours work - a blue-and-white fantasy salamander 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 salamander 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 120 × 69 × 25 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: about 24 % of the surface overhangs - the legs, the head and the curled tail are the main places. Use organic supports; they leave little trace on the flat facets.

• Orientation: as in the 3MF, lying low on its belly and feet. The contact area is small (about 100 mm² in total), so use a brim - it matters here.

• Scaling: delivered at about 120 mm long. The thinnest parts are the toes and the tail tip, 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.