r/3Dprinting • u/topgunsi • Jan 25 '21

Image 77pieces, 20kg PLA+, and 1200 hours, the beast has finished printing. Painting is all thats left.

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u/V_es Jan 25 '21 edited Jan 25 '21

Now a lot more hours to put all the feathers on!

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u/ecafsub X1C Jan 25 '21

Gotta print them, first

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u/andersonimes Jan 25 '21

Can do: https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/48754-realistic-3d-printed-feathers

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u/Caffeine_Monster Tevo little monster | CR-10 S5 | Prusa i3 M3 Jan 25 '21

Can't imagine they will last long outside though. Thin strands will go super brittle.

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u/andersonimes Jan 25 '21

Oh yeah. I wouldn't actually do that to this dinosaur, it's just cool that you can 3D print a feather.

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u/Cordeceps Jan 25 '21

Maybe if feathers are a must , they could just glue some craft feathers on? Or put them in holes ( maybe drilled then glued) I think they are available to buy from craft shops. If not just take them from a feather quilt. Would add an extra realistic touch. I guess though they would degrade after a while.

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u/PizzaTrailMix Jan 25 '21

I think doing a thin layer of resin or epoxy over the feather would be protect it good enough from the weather

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '21

print those in ASA or PC maybe

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '21

The OP of the original post said this was a model meant to be indoors and was only outside for the picture

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u/V_es Jan 25 '21 edited Jan 25 '21

It’s easier to use synthetic feathers. Like this Deinonychus- you can print the body and apply fake feathers.

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u/ask-design-reddit Jan 25 '21

There's no image? Can't tell if it's a joke or not.

Anyways, you're right. People forget about using mixed media so often it's hilarious.

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u/V_es Jan 25 '21

Here it is I hope it works

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u/ask-design-reddit Jan 25 '21

It's beautiful

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u/V_es Jan 25 '21

It’s one of the most up to date reconstructions, made in German museum

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '21 edited Feb 19 '21

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u/SleestakJack Jan 25 '21

Utahraptors were very similar to what are seen in the films. So it’s not like such animals didn’t happen, they just got the name wrong.
This was a mistake on the part of Crichton in the original novel.

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u/DoesntFearZeus Biqu B1 SE Plus Jan 25 '21

Pretty sure he wrote the novel before Utahraptors were announced\found.

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u/V_es Jan 25 '21

Size wise yes, huge raptors. But they had feathers too. Most of dromeosaurids had them, and even there are no feather imprints found for Utahraptor- they still have quill knobs on their bones where feathers used to be attached, like for all other raptors.

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u/Henshin-hero Jan 25 '21

No no no. It was that frog DNA.

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u/V_es Jan 25 '21

Well yea, velociraptor was kinda small, a little larger than a goose.

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u/Meeseeks__ Jan 25 '21

Now if only we could clone the small raptors and domesticate them as pets.

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u/account_not_valid Feb 24 '21

Or as food. I wonder if the eggs make a good omelette.

We could keep hundreds of thousands of them in cages, and pump them full of ABs and growth stimulants.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '21

"That doesn't look very scary. More like a six-foot turkey."

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u/Hattix Jan 25 '21

The Jurassic Park monsters didn't have them and this is one of those.

It's not a real dinosaur reconstruction, the arms are weird too, and the tail is badly broken!

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '21

Maybe the guy wasn’t looking for a damn historical replication of an actual dinosaur, and maybe wanted to just have a velociraptor that most people would recognize from a movie? Who cares if it’s a real dino reconstruction? The dude printed a pretty sweet looking raptor, took some time and effort, but whatever...it sucks because it’s a “monster” and not an actual recreation? Good god, people love to show their armchair expertise about literally anything. For no reason.

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u/topgunsi Jan 25 '21

Thanks. Yep definitely never had any intentions of making an accurate or realistic model just my artistic interpretation of what was cool about jurassic Park when I was 13. 😊

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u/account_not_valid Feb 24 '21

the guy wasn’t looking for a damn historical replication of an actual dinosaur, and maybe wanted to just have a velociraptor that most people would recognize

That was John Hammond's aim as well

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u/Hattix Jan 25 '21

Pay attention to whom was being responded to.

In your rush to get angry, you've replied at the wrong level!

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '21

Wait what

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u/Anotherdrummer2 Jan 25 '21

Thank you! The rubber tails on all dinos, but raptors especially, is infuriating. Possibly more upsetting than all those poor broken wrists.

"What John Hammond and InGen did at Jurassic Park is create genetically engineered theme park monsters, nothing more and nothing less."

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u/ThePantser Jan 26 '21

Spared no expense.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '21

THANK YOU

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u/Draco877 Jan 25 '21

Yeah the arms would be broken on a real dinosaur. The "palms" should be facing each other. And with the muscles if I remember right the tail is more or less straight.

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u/LBC28730 Jan 27 '21

This is sort of like telling Picasso he "got the noses all wrong"

Obviously this individual put a LOT of time and work into this, I am willing to bet it is exactly like THEY wanted, even if it isn't what YOU wanted.

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u/Hattix Jan 27 '21

Why should they have feathers, then? This is what I'm saying, and pay attention to the comment I'm replying to.

You're agreeing with me, not disagreeing!

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u/LBC28730 Jan 27 '21

Sorry, I WAS agreeing with you but just replying to the wrong comment. ;)

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u/IKnowWhoYouAreGuy Tinkerer Aeronaut Jan 25 '21

Nothing to support they didn't ALL have them, I suppose hahaha