I am fascinated by segmented 3D Prints. I’ve found many dragons that are 3D printed in place and when you take them off the hotbed they are completely joined together and can move about.
I decided to print this one according to what the creator said as far as settings. Because of that the print is going to take a total of 18 1/2 hours. It is printing very slowly. The photo is from around 14 hours into the print. I’ve got 3 1/2 hours left to go at this point but once it is done it is going to look really cool. I am using a 3 color filament that is metallic. The three colors are red, blue and yellow so this will have a whole rainbow look to it and it is going to be perfect for Andy.
I 3D Printed this Steampunk Octopus today. The regular octopus doesn’t look as cool. This one is awesome. It is hollow in the middle so you can spin it on your finger and the arms twirl around like one of those carnival rides. Between printing this one and the other octopus I used up all the Blue/Green filament. I had to do a change of the filament and when I did some little bit of it got stuck in the feeder tube. I had to take part of the printer apart in order to get that bit removed so that I could load the printer with the triple color filament.
Speaking of taking things apart, I took apart the snowblower so that I could figure out what was wrong with it. The auger worked but the snowblower would not move forward or backwards. Somehow a belt got dislodged and I was able to get it put back on. Hopefully it will stay in place until the end of the winter season and then I’ll get it tuned up and prepared for next year.
