Huh, so they're pragmatic after all

Nota bene that author asks that folks use the printables link so they can earn filament from the downloads. It's linked in that thingiverse entry but here's the direct link:

https://www.printables.com/model/27814

I've been trying to figure out how I'll keep track of which filament corresponds to which egg in the future when I have a lot of them. Yours takes care of that. Solid choice

I use this one. There are probably better ones, but now I have holders and cases for them, so there's no going back now.

Having samples makes it easier if you have a lot of filament, and in my case I have a bunch of cards in a box I can easily carry with if I get a request and want to show them their options.

Still waiting for the texture pop to hit

The swatches have been the most common answer so far, I think. I’ll likely switch over to something like that in the future and use the eggs for some other decoration or whatever

Benchy also verifies your print settings are correct. Not as great as a temp tower/retraction test, but decent at detecting major setting problems

That’s pretty good-looking too. And may I ask which filament your Mac-n-cheese colored one is? (Maybe it’s just the lighting - doesn’t look true orange)

Nice, I like this too! I wish I had thought of the keyword “swatch” when first thinking about this

Love it! Saving this one for later.

Can't knock that. I of course knocked out a benchy when I first started out, but I figured I'm not much of a boat guy haha

They are cute! Seeing people even making shelves for them lol. Didn't know this was a thing

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/shorts/H6hkkoc8W1U

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

Some filaments look much different when printed than they look on the spool. Matte, shiny, multi-colored ones for example.

Not when I run out in the future! I also found out that the silk gold I'm using definitely printed different/shinier than I was expecting, based on the spool filament.

Yes.

Seems like the ones that find it necessary to print color references are either using fancier materials or use a ton of different colors.

Sure! My gold came out really nice. As a bonus, I also tried printing one of the amogus ghosts in good, and it’s probably the nicest print I’ve had yet. Can’t even see the layer lines!