Thanks to our buddy Justin (one of the players in our game), who doesn't own a 3d printer, but subs to the Lord of The Print, for hitting our gaming group up with his file so I can print it for him and then try to kill his character with it!
I don't 3D print but my friend does and my other is an epic painter. The question I would like to know is if I wanted this bigger would there be any issues. Ty
The classic D&D villain... the Ancient Red Dragon! Gotta love it! Good job sticking with it, despite all the printing issues. It paid off in the end. Loved it.
Thanks for showing the failures, it’s really hard for a lot of people to get into this hobby because of the amount of failures you get in the beginning. Thanks for showing the reward of sticking to it! 👍👍
So refreshing to see an honest representation of what 3d printing is like! It's not just plug and play most of the time. Its often tinkering, learning from mistakes, adjusting, and THEN coming away with an awesome final product. Great video and beautiful dragon! Thanks for showing the whole process, videos like this are invaluable for people just getting into the hobby!
I really felt your struggle. I sub Lord of the Print for half a year now and printed at least 8 of their drangons during this time. The supports of the bigger models are always very flimsy. My golden approach is to go with the presupported files and then reinforce the print with additional supports here and there. It works fine for me and takes way less time than supporting everything myself.
This is what I do. I open the files in Lychee slicer, do a scan for islands, add support to them automatically using medium supports, add a pile of heavy supports manually and then use the brace support feature to brace everything. Since I started doing it this way I haven't had a single failed print.
i printed this and its an amazing model. the maker did, and does, a SHIT job at supports. So doing supports on this yourself is a MUST. Love your videos man
That's a flipping massive resin print. You are braver than most in undertaking it. BTW, try using Lychee to slice instead of chitubox, I've been finding it 2000% better
Hey man amazing job, good on you for pushing through the fails and end up getting a great looking model. I have also found that with larger models and even some smaller ones, the presupports fail for me and I have to do them myself. Can't wait to see this thing painted!
Yeah... its was a pain... not only was I running out of time to get the model printed, it delayed the video too... now I got a lot of work cut out for me to paint this up in basically a week... that will be a real challenge.
I am truly amazed by your sheer willpower to make custom supports and keep trying until you finally managed to print an amazing Huge dragon miniature. Personally, my own quest of 3d printing a vulduk from archvillain is a fail. 2 prints of his main body and 24h almost wasted. Your video gives me the encouragement I needed to keep trying Thank you!
I would've thrown everything out of the window with that many fails, good on you for keeping your cool. I've printed the Godzilla, silver dragon and hydra from lord of the print and luckily only had very minor issues. I hear a lot of people complain about their presupports though. The easiest large print I've ever done was loot studios green dragon, their presupports are the best I've ever seen.
I bought this dragon from Etsy and got some bonus baby dragons with it! Im have trouble super gluing the wings and tail on, gonna try some hot glue and see if that works.
the biggest complaint on that specific print as shown in its comments was the lack of supports and how many people failed their prints lol. coulda saved so much time by reading the reviews for a minute
🐉MWARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!🐉 Belgian Moon, you must be Canadian; had that on Van Island, not a bad brew choice. Shame this couldn't've been printed all in one go, but he's a big feller. This is pretty neat. Off to go to the paint now
Love it! Can't believe I kept forgetting to watch this video. I love the clips from The Hobbit, so well edited in, and wow what an epic print :) look forward to the next video dude
You might want to increase your bottom exposure time a little. Helps with having the print stick to the plate. I've got mine at 90s (with an elegoo mars printer).
Thanks for the video i bought a printer and tried to print this first thing probably not the best choice but have learned from your video just have the wings and base left
@@FacilityD20 no but really i came back rewatching your vidéos recently and they are really amazing! You should print the galleon from printable scenery, would make an amazing addition to the previous ships :)
I'm in the process of an epic print and I can say I have about as many fails aswell lol I have a prusa mini super fun Hobbie though glad I got into it still a learning process
Dude you love printing i can see that and u got cool videos. It might be better for you to upgrade Anycubic Mono X for bigger projects, it's time saver.
I am curious why you are using a printer that printes the figure from top to bottom and lets everything hanging in the air. Would it not be easier to use a printer like Creality that prints the figure from the bottom to the top so the figure can support it´s on weight and don´t have to fall like yours and fail?
Just subbed, this was really cool. Im actually trying to learn how to do all this and am a bit overwhelmed, seeing the process if multiple parts was fun to watch come together, thanks for sharing ^^. Ps I'd love any tips anyone who sees this haha
Thank you. The hardest part of anything is just starting. When you start printing if you have any questions just drop a comment and I will try to help.
@@FacilityD20 I'll give it ago and will inform you of the results, planes tend to be made of plastic, which is lighter than resin. If not I'm borrowing my mates Gorilla glue haha
Hey... sorry for the confusion... the dragon mini is not on my patreon, it is beyond my skill. This model is from "Lord or the Print" you can find it under that name with a quick google search.
Great print.i got a jupiter se and i want to print tiamat from special stl.i just bought it.i got a question.at the scale you printed this dragon, was there stress on the body from the weight of the wings? I want to print a huge tiamat 200% scaled up.almost every part takes up the build plate.havent sliced or printed anything yet just doing research.the weight of the wings have me concerned.i could print at 150 scaled up but 200 just takes it to another level.
Weight will not be in issue, but supports will be. The pre-supports on this model sucks big time, I would support this entire thing myself and not bother with the pre-supported files.
I like the idea of this dragon, but once I got it, holy shit. It’s so frustrating the placement of the cuts in the wings. It can’t possibly be that hard to have planned the wing parts to fit together easier than straight lines going through the scales and membrane. The attachment point to the body has so little surface area, it feels really fragile🤬
Thanks. The liquid resin left if fine. But the parts are almost useless. However I am going to reuse the failed dragon dead and mout it above a fire place in a future tavern build
Legit! I was not happy with these Pre-supports... so much so I just totally did most of these parts over myself. One of the reason now I always throw on a few extras anyway.
Hi, hope someone can see this and answer my problem. I just started 3D printing and it's pretty cool, but I have myself this print file that has multiple pieces of the print I want to, well you know, print. But the amount of pieces on the build plate is too much for the size of my build plate, a lot of the pieces are sticking out and won't print. What do I do or what program should I use to separate the pieces into their own files. I can fix the problem by down scaling the model but I really want to keep it at the current size. So how can I move the pieces to their own files so i have fewer pieces on my build plate? If anyone can answer this I would very much appreciate it, also dont know where else to ask 😅
@@FacilityD20 beauty, me too. I just got my printer Tuesday. My build plate should be similar. Just need to over support it clearly! Gotta get the STL now
Thanks to our buddy Justin (one of the players in our game), who doesn't own a 3d printer, but subs to the Lord of The Print, for hitting our gaming group up with his file so I can print it for him and then try to kill his character with it!
I don't 3D print but my friend does and my other is an epic painter. The question I would like to know is if I wanted this bigger would there be any issues. Ty
The classic D&D villain... the Ancient Red Dragon! Gotta love it! Good job sticking with it, despite all the printing issues. It paid off in the end. Loved it.
Thanks
Thanks for showing the failures, it’s really hard for a lot of people to get into this hobby because of the amount of failures you get in the beginning. Thanks for showing the reward of sticking to it! 👍👍
Absolutely!
So refreshing to see an honest representation of what 3d printing is like!
It's not just plug and play most of the time. Its often tinkering, learning from mistakes, adjusting, and THEN coming away with an awesome final product.
Great video and beautiful dragon! Thanks for showing the whole process, videos like this are invaluable for people just getting into the hobby!
Thanks, sometimes it is as easy as a Microwave and sometimes its like this
I really felt your struggle. I sub Lord of the Print for half a year now and printed at least 8 of their drangons during this time. The supports of the bigger models are always very flimsy. My golden approach is to go with the presupported files and then reinforce the print with additional supports here and there. It works fine for me and takes way less time than supporting everything myself.
This took about 3x as long as it should have... I learned a lot printing it however.
This is what I do. I open the files in Lychee slicer, do a scan for islands, add support to them automatically using medium supports, add a pile of heavy supports manually and then use the brace support feature to brace everything. Since I started doing it this way I haven't had a single failed print.
Makes me wanna try making one. Even on my shitty $100 PLA printer, I bet I could make a halfway decent enough looking dragon.
Go for it. My printer was only $139usd lol
Don't think I have the patience for 3d printing sir. But I can hardly wait to see it all painted up!!
Thanks a lot! In the process of painting it now.
i printed this and its an amazing model. the maker did, and does, a SHIT job at supports. So doing supports on this yourself is a MUST. Love your videos man
Thanks a lot! I happy to hear you enjoyed it
That's a flipping massive resin print. You are braver than most in undertaking it. BTW, try using Lychee to slice instead of chitubox, I've been finding it 2000% better
I have heard good things about lychee, how are its auto supports?
@@FacilityD20 been working well for me, sometimes still get failures, but mostly good success rate with medium and above magic supports
Hey man amazing job, good on you for pushing through the fails and end up getting a great looking model. I have also found that with larger models and even some smaller ones, the presupports fail for me and I have to do them myself. Can't wait to see this thing painted!
Yeah... its was a pain... not only was I running out of time to get the model printed, it delayed the video too... now I got a lot of work cut out for me to paint this up in basically a week... that will be a real challenge.
HOT DAMN.
Long build time but that model is SO fucking worth it.
Great job.
Thanks
Spoiler allert! haha. Very nice print and good fight :)
Thanks
I am truly amazed by your sheer willpower to make custom supports and keep trying until you finally managed to print an amazing Huge dragon miniature. Personally, my own quest of 3d printing a vulduk from archvillain is a fail. 2 prints of his main body and 24h almost wasted. Your video gives me the encouragement I needed to keep trying Thank you!
Thanks! Just finished a Cthulhu from Lord of the Print, that one was almost as hard.
@@FacilityD20 I am looking forward for a similar display
that is so cool i want to make one too
Go for it!
I would've thrown everything out of the window with that many fails, good on you for keeping your cool. I've printed the Godzilla, silver dragon and hydra from lord of the print and luckily only had very minor issues. I hear a lot of people complain about their presupports though.
The easiest large print I've ever done was loot studios green dragon, their presupports are the best I've ever seen.
I almost did give up on this one, I really didn't want to put the time in to do my own supports, but I am glad I did.
@@FacilityD20 I've thought about printing this dragon a few times and I think I won't now haha. The end product looks fantastic though.
@@a.block.of.tofu. Thanks, if you do, just do the supports yourself upfront haha.
I would be so frustrated at all those fails. I have a 3d resin printer coming soon and not looking forward to this kind of experience lol
For sure. This print was the most difficult to date for me.
I bought this dragon from Etsy and got some bonus baby dragons with it! Im have trouble super gluing the wings and tail on, gonna try some hot glue and see if that works.
I found crazy glue to work well with resin.
Nice dragon. Those print failures would have me chucking the printer in the bin, good thing you've got more patience than me
I was getting pissed for sure.
Quite an epic print there! Good sticking it through the fails, rough. Gonna be an awesome game price for sure!
Can't wait!
the biggest complaint on that specific print as shown in its comments was the lack of supports and how many people failed their prints lol. coulda saved so much time by reading the reviews for a minute
For sure. I read them after the first few fails lol.
@@FacilityD20 great vid tho, keep up the good work 👍
@@firewizardrunepro Thanks!
Whoooo dude thats so sick
Thanks a lot!!
🐉MWARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!🐉 Belgian Moon, you must be Canadian; had that on Van Island, not a bad brew choice. Shame this couldn't've been printed all in one go, but he's a big feller. This is pretty neat. Off to go to the paint now
Yes, I'm from Newfoundland. I need a bigger printer haha.
@@FacilityD20 NL: pretty country from what I seen on G Maps. And true that! A printer that's like 3 ft... I mean... errrr 1m >>:=p
Love it! Can't believe I kept forgetting to watch this video. I love the clips from The Hobbit, so well edited in, and wow what an epic print :) look forward to the next video dude
Thank you so much!!
You might want to increase your bottom exposure time a little. Helps with having the print stick to the plate. I've got mine at 90s (with an elegoo mars printer).
I'll give it a go if I have problems like this again thanks.
Thanks for the video i bought a printer and tried to print this first thing probably not the best choice but have learned from your video just have the wings and base left
Very cool, this still stands as one of my hardest prints
So nice. Just started getting into 3d printing, having a blast.
Nice. What printer are you using?
@@FacilityD20 ELEGOO Saturn, biggest thing I worry about is the equipment on how sensitive everything might be to failure.
@@StephenMoreira That's nice! Resin printing can be so sensitive your right
That is one good looking red dragon. I going to try to print Tiamat.
That would be sick! Post pictures in the discord if you do.
wow man what a cool dragon!
Thanks! Thanks for watching as well!
I loved the video! Can't wait to see the printing part
Wow thanks man, working away on it at the moment.
Dang!!
Thanks
wonder why there were so many fails, like when you printed the legs as well as the attempt with the torso where the kneecap didnt print.
I believe it is mostly because the pre supports are not that great
@@FacilityD20 good to know for the future when ill be printing a bunch of the sets from this creator!
Bro is not ready for the rocket pig size dragons XD
Great video !
Thanks
@@FacilityD20 no but really i came back rewatching your vidéos recently and they are really amazing! You should print the galleon from printable scenery, would make an amazing addition to the previous ships :)
I'm in the process of an epic print and I can say I have about as many fails aswell lol I have a prusa mini super fun Hobbie though glad I got into it still a learning process
Good luck!
Nice
Thank you
Dragon slayer, 3D printcess saver.
Nice haha!
I can't even get them to adhere to the buildplate for round one.
Like everyone says leveling is key... it needs to be damn near perfect
more supports and i believe you will get less failed prints
For sure, i haven't had a lot of luck with pre-supported minis
I could have just sent you mine for the night. Would have been quicker. But I'd want it back without beer stains
That's all true lol...
Dude you love printing i can see that and u got cool videos. It might be better for you to upgrade Anycubic Mono X for bigger projects, it's time saver.
I agree man, I really want that printer! Need to save up for it.
Showing your fail , this how we learn better
Thanks
I am curious why you are using a printer that printes the figure from top to bottom and lets everything hanging in the air. Would it not be easier to use a printer like Creality that prints the figure from the bottom to the top so the figure can support it´s on weight and don´t have to fall like yours and fail?
That is how Resin printers do it. Very different then FDM printers.
@@FacilityD20 Ok. So if one wants to print in "resin" then only the upside down printing 3dprinter work with that material?
Can you provide a link to the stl files please? Doing some searching and nothing is coming up.
They are from Lord of the Print, but i belive the company changed their name
Don’t forget to save all your misprint mini’s for a zombie army! Lol
I kept the head of the dragon haha 😄
Hey friend! Good job! Could you provide the measurements of each printed part? Thanks!
Thanks... I Have it all assembled now... but the biggest part was the wings at about 6" in length.
Hay nice job man .
Thanks!!
Just subbed, this was really cool. Im actually trying to learn how to do all this and am a bit overwhelmed, seeing the process if multiple parts was fun to watch come together, thanks for sharing ^^. Ps I'd love any tips anyone who sees this haha
Thank you. The hardest part of anything is just starting. When you start printing if you have any questions just drop a comment and I will try to help.
@@FacilityD20 thanks ill keep that in mind =)
Where i can find the .STL file? The link in the description not work anymore.
I have some poly cement normally used for plane models and such like, will that work?
Not 100% sure... I have only ever used some form of crazy or super glue
@@FacilityD20 I'll give it ago and will inform you of the results, planes tend to be made of plastic, which is lighter than resin. If not I'm borrowing my mates Gorilla glue haha
@@FacilityD20 update: poly cement didn't work, so I went and got my strongest glue, Bostik, that worked a treat!
Get a larger printer for this lol.. 2 Saturn's or mono x a the very least..
I know! I want one.
Got on your patreon but cant find the dragon file...
Hey... sorry for the confusion... the dragon mini is not on my patreon, it is beyond my skill. This model is from "Lord or the Print" you can find it under that name with a quick google search.
Great print.i got a jupiter se and i want to print tiamat from special stl.i just bought it.i got a question.at the scale you printed this dragon, was there stress on the body from the weight of the wings? I want to print a huge tiamat 200% scaled up.almost every part takes up the build plate.havent sliced or printed anything yet just doing research.the weight of the wings have me concerned.i could print at 150 scaled up but 200 just takes it to another level.
Weight will not be in issue, but supports will be. The pre-supports on this model sucks big time, I would support this entire thing myself and not bother with the pre-supported files.
@FacilityD20 I heard the pre supports sucked so I did the supports myself.thanks for the heads up.
Can you order this already printed on etsy ?
I seen it yes
Bro where are you from, I'm getting all different accents from Irish to Canadian
Newfoundland Canada!
I like the idea of this dragon, but once I got it, holy shit. It’s so frustrating the placement of the cuts in the wings. It can’t possibly be that hard to have planned the wing parts to fit together easier than straight lines going through the scales and membrane. The attachment point to the body has so little surface area, it feels really fragile🤬
I agree
That is an epic dragon
What do you do with all the resin that where failed prints? Can you reuse it?
Thanks. The liquid resin left if fine. But the parts are almost useless. However I am going to reuse the failed dragon dead and mout it above a fire place in a future tavern build
Sure not one of the best advertisements for pre supported models. That’s my experience also. I add more supports and stuff prints.
Legit! I was not happy with these Pre-supports... so much so I just totally did most of these parts over myself. One of the reason now I always throw on a few extras anyway.
Was it 20 bucks the whole process(mess ups and all), or the combined resin of only the succsesfull prints?
The mess ups and all.
Make it - in flight with his mouth open angled down and I'll buy it from you.
beyond my skill
Hi, hope someone can see this and answer my problem. I just started 3D printing and it's pretty cool, but I have myself this print file that has multiple pieces of the print I want to, well you know, print. But the amount of pieces on the build plate is too much for the size of my build plate, a lot of the pieces are sticking out and won't print. What do I do or what program should I use to separate the pieces into their own files. I can fix the problem by down scaling the model but I really want to keep it at the current size. So how can I move the pieces to their own files so i have fewer pieces on my build plate? If anyone can answer this I would very much appreciate it, also dont know where else to ask 😅
You can use programs like, Blender, Meshmixer and there are some slicer programs that can do this as well.
@@FacilityD20 oh I have blender, might try to use that. Thanks for the help 👍
I hate how they don't hook us up with the stl lol
You need to check out Lord of the Prints site!
im so glad i didnt got a resin printer
Haha.. this was a tough one, but as you will see on my channel, once you get the hang of it. It's easy.
Is there a way to get the stl to print it myself ?
Yes. Lord of the Print has the STL link is in the description.
How do I get one? I dont have a 3d printer.
Check out Anycubic's website.
What’s your build area size on that? I’ve been looking at the same model for a week and want to try to run it on my Mars pro
It's 115x65x115 mm I could have did it in less prints, but I'm new to this.
@@FacilityD20 beauty, me too. I just got my printer Tuesday. My build plate should be similar. Just need to over support it clearly! Gotta get the STL now
Apply the PTFE lube - then let it dry - then buff back to clear.
yes, but no need to buff
Hi i would like to buy the file to print my self ??
check out Lord of The Print, that is where is came from
Do you have link ? Thanks
But could it have been bigger...... lol
It could always be bigger lol
работа посредственная , видно стыки деталей. Перед покраской нужно было тщательно зашпаклевать, отшлифовать и после только заниматься покраской.
How to waste 1kg of grey resing and abandon 3d printing lol
Haha that is one way to look at it!
Just for the future, those movie cut-ins are super annoying.
I get it, some people like them some don't.
Lord of the print always has bad supports for the models.
Yeah...
Pretend this is a witty comment
Dam that was a good one.
No offence, but your vid makes 3d printing seem sooo hard... haha
Haha... sometime it can be, that's for sure.
Dude that thing is AWESOME, I want one, Great video my friend, keep up the great work, can't wait to see it all done
Thanks, im looking forward to painting it.