Most failed tombstones and pumpkins I see are the same job: a 400 mm prop forced onto a 220 mm bed as one heroic print.

Split first. Glue later.

What I do on every yard piece:

• Cut the mesh on a flat plane (base of a brick, waist of a ghost), never through a face that will catch rain.

• Give each half a 1.5 mm alignment pin and a matching hole. Dry-fit before glue.

• Print standing so layer lines run with the weather, not across it.

• 0.2 mm, 4 walls, 15% gyroid. Brim. PLA. That’s it.

• Weld with CA on the pins, then a bead of outdoor adhesive in the seam. Primer hides it.

If the printer is the problem — first layer shiny on one side, dull on the other, or the nozzle grinding mid-print — stop reprinting the same STL. That’s a machine issue, not a model issue.

I keep print-ready Halloween STLs in the shop, split for hobby beds. Separate from that, I sell a single 1-hour live session when the printer itself is fighting you.