How a duck gets its colors

There is no paint on our figurines. Every color you see is the plastic itself, which is why a duck can survive a drop onto a driveway and still look like it did in the photo.

The three ways we get color

• Single color. The simplest and the most durable. One spool, one uniform piece.
• Filament swap. The printer pauses at a set layer, we change the spool by hand, and the print continues. This is how a Santa duck gets a red hat on a white body.
• Multi-material printing. Two nozzles lay down different plastics in the same layer, which is how the eyes stay glossy while the body stays matte.

Why the swap lines look intentional

A filament swap creates a visible seam exactly where the color changes. We design the model around that: the seam lands on a collar, a waistband or a hairline, where a seam looks like a garment rather than a mistake. If a model cannot hide the seam somewhere sensible, it does not get a color change.

We do not paint ducks. We interrupt them.

This is also why two of the same figurine can differ very slightly. The swap happens at a layer boundary, and layer boundaries are fractions of a millimeter. Expect the hat to sit a hair higher or lower than the photo, and expect the color to be the same forever.