Hatching Little Dragon!

Hi all!

I'm happy to finally share my latest creation: a little baby dragon that just hatched :)

Most of the print is a print in place, mostly without support. It is optimized to print with 5 different colors at a time, so you only need 1 AMS unit and one external spool.

I also added a mechanism inside: if you push the tail down, the mouth will open. You can also move the tail sideways and the dragon will rotate as well. This little GIF shows the movement:

assembly instructions:

Remove the body from the printplate. Remove the supports from the tail:

After that push the tail down and see if the mechanism gets loose (it should if your printed prints with nice tolerances):

You can insert the spring in the top:

Take the teeth and head. Use a little drop of glue to make the teeth stick to the head (If the model is succesful, I might try to make this a click mechanism but thats not easy to do at this small scale). The teeth should fit nicely into the groove:

Now the final step: assemble the head on the body. You should just hold the head nice and horizontal, and push it slowly down on the body.

You will probably feel a little click when it is correctly placed, and the head should be able to move very easily. 

Just to be sure, the pictures below show the correct assembly and some wrong ones:

Thats it! Hope you like it…

(the mechanism with the tail might need a couple of up and down movements for everything to become smooth).

Greetz

PC