Armored Spike Dragon!
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Hi Cinders!!!
This month's dragon is the ARMORED SPIKE DRAGON! This is a really FUN print and EXTREMELY POSABLE!
This species of dragon is a QUAD-WING dragon, with 2 big sets of fan out wings! I have designed these wings to be pop-ins, meaning you can print them on a separate bed for bigger dragons and also help minimize fail prints due to wing adhesion. If you would like to fit it all on one printbed 80% seems to be a great size! There are also notches on the body segment for the wings to sit in 2 different positions!
This model is a NO SUPPORTS model and has been tested between 100%-60% sizes. For better bed adhesion we recommend a brim especially around the wings. While it's a spikey design, it's actually not hard to hold and my kids have so much fun playing with them!
There are 2 different variations!
Winged (with separate wing file)
Wingless
Filament: Filament shout-out to FILAMENTIUM for the stunning Crystal Clear teal filament! It's my favorite color and I love how the light shines through! Also used HZST3D's Gun Metal Grey which is a great armor color!
Thank you all for your support!! :)
-Tracy
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May Models:
Gemstone Turtle - Released
Flutterphin - Released
Baby Butterfly Dragon - EXCLUSIVE Released
Armored Spike Dragon - Released
Secret Design
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Comments (35)
we absolutely love the pop out/in wings. best design EVER
hey, can you help me understand how to get this file? I dont see the link like it is in other posts
This is an archived file, if you weren't subbed when it came out, you'll have to purchase it
I really love the look of these, but they never seem to stay in place. The fronts are OK for now, but the backs aren't tight at all. If you print on a Bambu or a perfectly dialed in printer, the ball joints are too loose and the wings don't stay up. Maybe a sticky filament will be better but ughh. I seem to have this problem with all the pop-in winged dragons. :(
In this case I'd recommend going up 1% or heck, even half a % in scale. That usually does the trick. We try to get it as good as we can for most but every filament and every printer is gonna be a little different!
I have been unsuccessful trying to paint this in the Bambu slicer. How did you paint the wings two different colors.
They just did a filament change
Do you have a model of a rock formation or mountain he can rest on?
the crystal cave should work. . .
the wings will not open and just broke trying to get them open... @70%
how many walls are you using?
I printed this with Overture PLA Plus black (body), and Amolen Silk Gold (wings). I literally had a bidding war going the moment we posted this.
Did the MMF email go out already? I didn't get it and missed downloading the file.
They have not yet
Will you ever release a .3mf in the future for some of these prints? Id love to be able to do multicolors.
We have previously released 3mfs for some models. Due to the amount of time they take we pick and choose as we have time and manpower to do so!
Fantastic model! I've printed 4 and they all look beautiful, I wish I could post pics, the wings and tips with red/blue looks great. Love the engineering on the wings to hold position and how they rest. I've found tilting the wings downward and rolling the balls into the sockets helps them go together smoothly and have not had any break.
I was able to attach my wings. If you have them collapsed, the part that touches the print plate faces forward. I did snap one of the wings in half but was able to reattach with gloop. I can't seem to post a picture for reference.
I cant figure out how to put the front wings on it feels like it printed two wings that go on the same side.
One set is bigger than the other. The smaller set it the back wing, the bigger set also has a spike near the ball joint.
Had to join the club, the dragon and wings printed perfectly, but the ball sockets each snapped a piece in PLA. Just adding glue seemed to fix it, though, so great work!
body breaks when trying to click in wings :-/ waste of almost 40 hrs lol will try wingless model next, i think that will be better :)
The ball sockets do not require force to go in but since we cant account for all tolerances it might be worth going down a percent or half a percent to get a easier time for poppin them in
The dragon print turned out nice. Just finishing up the wings now. This is a fun winged model.
It is not slicing for me
If you need print support please pop into Discord or email us at support@cinderwing3d.com with more info! Though, if its Cura, please use a different slicer or try rotating the model. Elegoo Cura and Creality Slicer have many bugs that make it have trouble slicing models and base Cura is finicky at best. Those are all sliver issues, no model issues so we can do nothing to fix that.
what was the layer change to the 2 different colors
Of course I just put another Butterfly down, this will have to wait but it is super awesome.
Thats why i bought a second printer. :)
This is one of my favorite!!!
Very cool!
Looks different, nice designs. I like it.
I'll be printing this tonight!
Different i like it
Nice