Flexi articulated christmas dragon in santa clause disguise no support needed

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Why should santa clause only be human? Also dragons like to celebrate christmas!

So our nice little dragon decided it would be time for a dragon to get into his santa costume and bring joy (and presents) to dragon children. The spirit of christmas is always with him.

This is our first design and we wanted to design something very special. We love dragons, so it had to be a dragon. We dont like supports, so it has to be print in place. We are mesmerized by articulated models, so, articulation also was a must have. Last but not least, it should be suitable for being played with. Since children love to play with articulated models, it was our goal to design something strong. So the joints are pretty big. We dont want them to break to easily and also we wanted them to move without mayor problems. Here is what we created.

The dragon is still a dragon. He is not smiling with a fake smile, he has put on a beard and hat, but you can still see the dragon inside.

His body is decorated with snowflakes, candy canes and a chain light bulb all over the body.

There also was a first design (the beard was smaller and the hat was different). The first design will never be shared. We have printed only 10 prototype models of the first design and sell them on our website. We will not print them again.

You are buying the version 2 of the design. You buy it for personell use only, no selling of printed models or files is allowed. Also sharing the file or altering it and sharing altered versions is not allowed.

The model comes out of the file very small. Cause its having so many details the file is big and will make your slicer slow. Be patient.

We recomend to scale the model up to 450%, this should give you a length of about 45 cm which is pretty good to play and you can see the details. Printing with 100% should also give you a movable model, but I wouldnt try to go below this. At 450% you will have no problem to print it on an ender 3 sized printer.

Supports: No (maybe you will want to put some support only to the beard, cause it tends to be a little tricky to get enough adhesion on the printbed.

Infill:
Simplify 3d, fast honeycomb 10%
Cura, gyroid 10%
Prusa slicer,gyroid 10%

That infill settings will be enough to print a strong model. If you want it to be more heavy, go up.

Layer High: 0.2 mm is enough to see the details very clearly.

Here is a video of the dragon:

https://youtube.com/shorts/4ciWNcgWhEo?feature=share