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Printing and Assembling a Bowser Figure — The Teeth Were the Hardest Part

Kevin Park Life, 3D Printing 3 min read
3D Printing Bowser Mario Multipart Bambu Lab P2S X2D MakerWorld Assembly

The finished Bowser

This time it’s Bowser from Mario.

The model is “Bowser - Ultra-Low Waste (No AMS Modular Design)” on MakerWorld, designed by Crystopher81.

As the name says, it’s split into pieces by color so you can print it without an AMS. The point is that almost no filament gets wasted on color changes.

Printing one color at a time

The body is a 10-plate project, and the eyes and mouth each have a separate plate for AMS multicolor printing.

I printed the body on the P2S and the eyes and mouth on the X2D.

Bowser parts printing color by color

Yellow legs and arms, the tail and torso, black bracelets, the green shell, the white belly and shell rim, red spots, and white spikes.

Each plate uses a single color, so there’s no filament change during a print.

All the parts laid out

All the parts laid out before assembly

Laid out together, it’s quite a lot. The small gray pieces are the studs that go on the bracelets.

The teeth were the hardest part

The head piece before assembly and the finished mouth

The hardest part of this build was the teeth.

On the left is the head piece before assembly, and on the right is the finished result. I finished this part before I started recording, so it isn’t in the video.

Gluing it together piece by piece

Everything else I glued on one piece at a time with instant glue.

Legs and tail → shell → bracelets → red shell spots → arms → belly and head → shell spikes.

Gluing the red spots and the spikes on the shell

I recorded the whole assembly, and it came to almost 40 minutes. The red spots on the shell took the longest — about 7 minutes in the video. The shell spikes at the end took more than 5 minutes too, gluing them one by one.

Finished

Bowser from the left

Bowser from above and behind

Only after every spike was on the shell was it finally done.

Watch the video

I put the whole thing on video, from printing to assembly. The printing keeps the printer’s own sound, and the assembly flips through still shots, one click for each new piece.

There is a short version too.