🍄 A stylised collectible series inspired by real fungi, reimagined in a soft, playful character style.

🎨 Design Concept

This collection is a set of six stylised mushroom figures, each inspired by a distinct real-world mushroom and transformed into a collectible character. The designs prioritise cute, friendly proportions, smooth silhouettes, and tactile surface detail, while remaining highly printable.

Each mushroom retains a defining visual trait, from the shaggy texture of Lion’s Mane, to the honeycomb pores of Morel, the clustered caps of Golden Enoki, and the playful translucency of the Ghost variants. Facial features are intentionally minimal and uniform to unify the collection, allowing colour, texture, and form to be the hero.

Each mushroom figure is based on a real fungus specimen. See below for the real-life comparisons:

Golden Enoki (lammulina velutipes)

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Morel (morchella esculenta)

Orange Pore (favolaschia calocera)

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Shiitake (lentinula edodes)

Lions Mane (hericium erinaceus)

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Ghost (omphalotus nidiformis)

The Ghost figure is presented intentionally in two variants:

a standard daylight version
a glow-in-the-dark version

These are designed as companion pieces rather than duplicates, highlighting material behaviour as part of the storytelling.

Overall, the collection is designed to feel:

cohesive as a full set
charming as individual display pieces
practical and repeatable for physical printing

⚙️ Print Details

Printer: K2 Pro (also tested on Creality Hi)
Material: PLA
- Standard PLA for solid colour figures
- Glow-in-the-dark PLA for Ghost01 (night variant)
Layer Height: 0.2 mm (0.16 for greater details)
Infill: 15 % (adaptive cubic or gyroid)
Supports: Yes it's important to test your settings as there are a lot of supports across some of the models, the easier you can make them release the better the models will turn out. Below is what I used
- Style: Tree Hybrid
- Threshold angle: 45 degrees
- On build plate only
- Top Z distance: 0.28/0.3 mm
- Support/object xy distance: 0.4 mm
- Support/object first layer gap: 1 mm
Build Orientation: Printed upright, feet to the build plate

✨ Final Result

The finished prints showcase strong surface definition, especially in textured caps and organic forms, while maintaining clean facial features and consistent proportions across the set. Solid PLA versions emphasise shape and colour clarity, while the glow-in-the-dark Ghost variant introduces an interactive, playful contrast without altering the core design.

This series was designed as a display-first collectible set, equally suited to shelves, desks, or themed collections, and celebrates both the diversity of fungi and the creative flexibility of 3D printing.

The result is a cohesive, character-driven collection that balances whimsy, print reliability, and visual storytelling, making each mushroom distinct while clearly belonging to the same world.

Stay tuned for the next lot in the mushroom series🍄🍄‍🟫🍄🧚

Enoki 3D Print Models & Free STL Files