My wife has always loved the Dala horse which is a holiday icon in Sweden. For me it was a great challenge to model a Dala horse in xShape.

I started by brining in some photos of a dala horse from various orthographic views.

I inserted a cube primitive in xShape and then, using the various subdivision commands, was able to push and pull the shape.

Here is a time lapse video showing the xShape workflow:

Here is an image showing the final shape / subdivision model:

I split the horse in half and added some registration holes to line up the 2 halves when gluing.

Here are some photos of the 3D Print:

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