The design is ment to be broke apart and painted - if you are not painted - would suggest to tape the top piece together before pulling from the machine. 

Carefully remove the wood pieces from the body - the ‘fur’ cuts are  easy to break - but to be honest is not a big deal, if they do break off, because you will be gluing the top piece on the ‘hanging piece’ - if your fur pieces to break out -you have depth apperance. and not painted

I paint with arcylic paint - which dries pretty fast. After about 15 minutes, carefully put the pieces back together. 

Note that - the paint has now made the pieces a bit thicker - but with some gentle effort the pieces will slide together.

You can either paint the back piece all black, or only the head black - the mouth is cut from the body. Be creative - OR paint to bumble standards

Black border .

White fur

mix cerulean blue with the remaining white to lighten it.

when painting over the face- its best to do a wash ( water your paint) - so the engraved face will show through.

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after ‘dry fitting’ the body back together, spread wood glue on the back piece and place body on back piece - the outline of both pieces are the same - so its easy to line them up.

clamp and wait!