Bucky Barnes (Winter Soldier) Bobblehead

My wife loves Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier.  Ok she loves the actor.  In any case, I decided to make her a bobblehead for her desk so he could nod in agreement to everything she has to say.  :)

This was designed and created quite a while ago before I saw the ideas of 3D printing springs for bobbleheads here.  In this case, I used a coil of galvanized steel wire (16 gauge) to create the spring as I had seen done on some online bobblehead tutorials.  I may later on down the road (or if someone else wants to remix this) work a version that has a printed spring and is a lot lighter in the head  :).

My only issues with printing this was the under side of the head not coming off too clean and took a bit to clean it up (but I should have sanded more, was impatient).

This was printed at 1.5mm layer height and requires supports.  the main files are the head and the body with the base.

I have separated out the body and the base, just incase someone wants to play with that.  I also have the head sliced so that you can print the bottom upside down to alleviate issues I had with a smoother chin on this guy.

To create the sprint, I used a dowel with the approx. diameter of the neck and wrapped the wire around it.  I used a hand auger to drill a small hold inside the head.  and mad sure that the coil came to the middle and then straight up to fit into the hole.  Getting it set in the hole was a bit tricky, I set some E6000 into the hole then (after having practiced many times before the glue) got it to sit in the  hole.  The neck of the model gets wider near the base so once I had the coil set in the head, I twisted it around on the neck till it was snug, then I added some E6000 to hold it in place.