Some renders show this model in another colourway.
Articulated fire dragon
A sculpted fire dragon whose captive joints print in place and never come loose.
- Pieces
- 26: a head, 24 body pieces and a tail tip
- Length straight
- 431 mm
- Print time
- 6.1 h on 2 plates
- Filament
- 108.1 g
Colourway
- Maroon red main
- Orange second
- Gold accent
About the design
A fire dragon with scaled flame spines, horns, clawed legs and a curling tail, which prints in one go and moves straight off the bed. Its sculpt is davidkelly021's popular fire dragon, rebuilt on my own captive joints: each is a post with a wide foot held under a 45 degree roof in the next piece's collar, with a fixed 0.30 mm gap at any size, so the pieces cannot pull apart and the joints keep their fit when you scale it. Most joints swing 30 degrees each way and those beside the shoulders and hips 15. It prints flat in the base dragon's own curl, with no supports and no brim, in dark red with an orange back and gold spine tips and horns.
What you can change
- Overall scale
- Joint clearance for your printer
- Swing per joint, and at the shoulders and hips
- The joints' post, foot, collar and arm
Specifications
- Pieces
- 26: a head, 24 body pieces and a tail tip
- Length straight
- 431 mm
- As printed
- 190 x 218 x 39 mm
- Joint gap
- 0.30 mm
Printing
| Project | Plates | Hours | Grams |
|---|---|---|---|
| Articulated fire dragon, PLA Basic | 2 | 6.1 | 108.1 |
| Total | 2 | 6.1 | 108.1 |
Times and weights come from the Bambu Studio 02.08.02.61 slice at 0.20 mm layers. Each figure is rounded on its own.
In the room
Some renders show this model in another colourway.
Credits and licence
The sculpt is "fire dragon print in place" by davidkelly021 (https://makerworld.com/en/models/21161), licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). I replaced its joints with my own, fused its legs, head and tail tip, trimmed each piece to new flanks and scaled it.
- Licence
- All rights reserved