Summary

This is a remix of a dragon to use for D&D

"My first dragon" was a custom made project remixed from what was on thingiverse.
Made to be printable with the ender 3 in one piece. Remove supports yourself with soldering iron.

instructions:

Before starting; level your ender 3 printbed; gcode is attached; the lines should stick to the printbed, but the push should be little and the nozzle should not grind your bed to shreds; remove the lines before starting your print and reapply adhesive.

Day 01: print the dragon (9 hours on ender 3)
Day 02: print the D&D foot (make sure you print in the same size as the dragon or a bit bigger for a good fit. 5 hours 28min on ender 3)

(make sure your have a costume spool. The one on the top moves the printer too much. This might set off your printer and tip over the leggs.)

added a dungeons and dragons foot for the dragon.

(version 44: allot has happend since version 1. We wanted to reduce print time and reduce plate print time. Faster printing is not always better it seems. Got into allot of trouble because we had to cut the old plate and attach the new. The new plate is oval which makes more sense. Then accidentally the model got turned slightly in sculp mode so we had to learn to get it horizontally as good as possible in blender. Just to find out my slicer has that option. So save yourself some time and align in your slicer and export to stl binary. This dragon was made in blender and "decimate" and "remesh" are the modifiers used. We watched hours of make manifold video's; now we dont use any of it. Just remesh to make manifold. If you wanna make improvements after remesh make sure to decimate and remesh. Just in case your file gets too big and blender will punish you for it, by making you watch a white screen. It can help to save your STL in binary once it is too big to reduce size)

(We found out the hard way that filament can get tangled even on the spool and can fail your print. Dont take off your filament thinking you can untangle it. BIG mistake. It tangles like nothing you have seen. Use a empty spool to the left of your ender 3 and unwind and rewind the filament at the same time. The empty spool should be bigger than the filament spool. The filament you buy should be good on the spool. But if you buy the cheap stuff dont be surprized if you get a failed print every now and then. To be safe use a costume spool. This way you know you have enough of not entangled filament to finish a print like this and you dont have to baby sit it while printing.)

In short we have the minimum setup for ender 3 attached as picture to help out if you are a beginner. If you can print the dragon with the basic setup let us know in the comments. That would be great to note here.

(We experimented allot with supports in this build. Some supports the dragon would lose his bottom half of the mouth. Or stringing from his belly. All should be fixed now but we will post any succesfull print here for you to view)

We hope our efforts help out anyone who doesn't have the time to figure all this stuff out and just wants to print a dragon. All our stuff is educational and mostly we are just trying to see if we can do it.