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Drilled Truncated Dodecahedron

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This model is a truncated dodecahedron that has pentagonal cupolaic excavations in all twelve of its decagonal faces, followed by 12 pentagonal antiprism excavations, and is finally drilled by a central dodecahedron to create a hole through the model which connects the antiprisms' bases. It has a genus of 11.

Here's what part of the shape of the hole looks like. A dodecahedron in the middle, with 2 of its 12 faces augmented with antiprisms followed by cupolae. The full hole has all 12 faces augmented.
Start by putting together the inner section.
When the inner part is complete, start adding the outside parts. (You do have a pair of tweezers, don't you?!).
Looked like it would be very difficult to finish this model nicely, but I found a way that worked quite well. This picture shows you which parts to leave till last, leaving a kind of zigzag pattern to finish with. You can access all the tabs on what remains with tweezers through various gaps, and leave the last five green traingles till the very end. These should just close like lids.
You can see how big the model is here, along with Small Stella running on the laptop, showing the same model.
Close-up view of finished model.
Another close-up view.

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