Baby Dragon Head [remix] by BubbleMonk

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

This is a baby version of SIMPLIFI3D's teenage dragon! (I was going to use it for my baby rattle, but figured her horns are a little too sharp for a child to swing around lol)
This is designed to fit with the cutout version of my Rainstick Baby Rattle.
I printed this piece hollow to be used as the head of the rattle. Because I only had the .STL to work with, and the only program that can edit those the way I needed was SolidWorks (which I don't have), I simply printed it with 5 walls and super slowly at .8mm layer height with no infill. It worked out okay, however, there is one issue with this: due to the orientation I chose, some parts between the horn bumps printed a little thin. If you don't intend to use this as a rattle head, I suggest you use infill. It came out pretty good though.
I also drilled a hole in the neck so I could shove metal jewelry beads inside. Careful with this: because it's soft plastic, it'll tend to suck the drill bit into it. Clamp it down as well as you can, work your way up bit sizes, drill at full speed, and keep control.
Included are the .STL without supports and one with Meshmixer supports I designed for my preferred orientation (keeping the post-processing to the smooth neck area). If you want, play around with this in Cura or Meshmixer - mine ended up with a lot of little nubs that needed sanding. They look/feel cool actually, but this was a gift, so.