3D Printing & Painting Contest: Metallic Dragons from the 2025 Monster Manual!
Hello friends! For this months 3D printing and painting contest you can now unleash the new Metallic Dragons from the 2025 Monster Manual! I'm very proud of these elegant and glorious dragons so I know you guys won't disappoint!
Rules are as follows:
Post your submission below with an image url. Imgur preferred. Please don't use Instagram as I can't download images from there. Please don't use a link that asks for permissions to view
One submission per patron from any tier
One photo, though a group of photos in one picture is fine
One creature type per submission, though swarms of one creature is also fine.
Dioramas are welcome
Only use my files though remixes are welcome
You can't reuse images from prior contests
You have until 2359 27 June 2025 EST to post here then I'll make a poll where you will decide the winner! Prizes are:
1st - A $500 Gift card from Anycubic!
2nd & 3rd - a custom 3D modeled mini
4th & beyond - a sticker by Jen! Last month's are in the mail now.
With that good luck folks! I can't wait to see what you post!
Comments (30)
Young Gold Dragon https://imgur.com/a/YeehmPp
Ancient Copper dragon https://imgur.com/a/apRkLr6
Ancient Bronze Dragon https://imgur.com/a/JQvTXqk Posed in Diorama
Ancient Gold Dragon https://imgur.com/a/67256CJ
Ancient Bronze Dragon https://imgur.com/gallery/mz4250-printing-painting-contest-yTZ9V9f
Adult Brass Dragon https://imgur.com/a/adult-brass-dragon-I5NnZow
https://imgur.com/a/WJOoZ1b Ancient Copper Dragon
Young silver dragon https://imgur.com/a/ExoHpQL
Ancient Brass Dragon https://imgur.com/a/9z8xUkN
My elderly and slightly damaged ancient copper dragon. https://imgur.com/gallery/ancient-copper-dragon-from-monster-manual-i-included-copper-wyrmlings-i-looked-tarnished-copper-to-add-patterns-to-wings-LgG5hkU
Ancient Bronze Dragon with Battle Damage and lightning breath https://imgur.com/gallery/O449kga
Adult Bronze Dragon https://imgur.com/a/Zm90Dxy I just finished painting my adult bronze dragon yesterday evening. It's been a while sins I last painted mini's but I hope you'll like it. It's only been 2 months at max sins began 3D printing. Discovering pintables and stumbling across your profile, has truly been amazing! Thank you for all of your work, and generosity. On a different note. I've run into some issues with either the wings or body (not sure) warping or in some other way disforming at the connection point, if anyone has some advice on optimal print settings, or what I could be doing wrong it would be greatly appreciated. I'm using a Anycubic Mono M7 resin printer and printing the pre supported versions with Texture resin.
Ancient Copper Dragon - https://imgur.com/a/ancient-copper-dragon-VqBMcUy
Weather finally was agreeable for me to do a little photoshoot with my entry, also an adult bronze dragon. This was the first project I tried drybrushing on and I'm super pleased with the end result. https://imgur.com/a/adult-bronze-dragon-june-2025-painting-contest-6wIYLmp
I went for the Adult Bronze. Now I need an adventure to feature her. https://imgur.com/gallery/adult-bronze-dragon-2025-by-mz4250-RZ2KT3B
Adult Gold Dragon https://imgur.com/gallery/gold-dragon-of-waterdeep-lhpb9KK
Adult Gold Dragon https://imgur.com/a/wYC0HF1
Ancient Brass Dragon https://imgur.com/a/Qy2ONnf
Ancient Bronze Dragon https://imgur.com/gallery/SqKQ2Bd
https://imgur.com/gallery/bronze-dragon-family-mz-4250-e6UhRP0 Ancient Bronze dragon family. Had so many photos i wanted to share but i understand that the competition only allows 1 so i added extras after if people are interested!
https://imgur.com/gallery/f4U15Hp Listen, the wings BARELY fit in my print bay. I ended up shrinking them by 2% just so I had clearance for the supports. But all in all, I'm real happy with this good little boy!
The link doesn't work :/ . Could you try posting it again?
https://imgur.com/a/GN6IEXh
https://i.imgur.com/EIpexde.jpeg Here’s my submission for the contest. Adult Bronze dragon. Printed on A1 mini. This was a two person project with me and a buddy of mine. If you can add his name to share credit - Scott Breihan.
I just started 3D printing this year and this sounded fun! Here is my submission for the contest! https://imgur.com/gallery/copper-dragon-whelp-stl-model-from-mz4250-printed-with-anycubic-mono-4-JL1Gqqr
Here's my submission! I shrank the Adult Gold Dragon down and put it in the Gold Dragon Lair Diorama I just recently completed as a personal project. (It's built into an Ikea cubby) https://imgur.com/a/d07dvM0
Adding my submission for the contest here! https://imgur.com/a/3xWbY8V
Both the model and the paint job look amazing but I'm extremely sleep deprived and on mobile right now. On first glance my brain registered the fingers in the second picture as water buckets and immediately just went "Ah yes, obviously. A dragon on its way to put out a forest fire. What an adorable model. I just wish he also had a helmet." 🤦🫠
so when you say creature type can i have the different ages of the dragon of choice all in a little diorama type thing
Yes and if it's a family portrait even better :)