About this 3D model

Four Part Expandable Bird House Model of a scalable Birdcage constructed from four 3D printed parts and dollar store wood "Shish Kabob skewers". Door opens and swings. This is a basic design that I used for a narrow shelf decoration, but it can scaled up just by adding more cross beams. You can line these up in different directions, add back rooms, make a maze, expand out or add floors... The real fun of this project was to design the decorations. I haven't included any of mine since I like the look of the project plain and everyone has their own design taste. Tips for assembly: - Use acetone: ABS plastic from the left over support structures 2:1 mix to glue weld the parts. - use an alignment tray to make sure all the angles 90 degrees. -use the full arch placed first to support the quarter arches against long place holder wood bars. Suggestions for decorations that you might consider include the following: - Front steps - Finials for columns - Ridged half columns for front center part - Windows with frames - Roof Peak decorations - Roof Ridge with spacers for crossover wires - Bell tower or widow's peak - Use metal wires instead of wood for walls and roof - Flag pole with pennants - Mail box - Lamp post - Eve decorations for arches - Ridge peaks Ideas for "better" versions of this basic design: - Open bottom tray for cleaning, if you keep anything alive in one of these. - Roll arcs of copper wires to cross over roof instead of long way wood beams. - Add a few LEDs to the inner roof beams File Parts List: - Quarter_arc (12) - Half_arcs(6) - Stanchion (12) - Cross_beam (32)