This week the main thing on the table is reticulating dragons, because apparently one dragon is not enough and also apparently it has to wiggle like it pays rent here.
We started with a white dragon that looked pretty clean from far away, but up close it had a few tiny spaghetti spots under the chin and one foot came out looking like it was invented during an earthquake. Still, the body moved, the tail was awesome, and the spikes looked mean, so we are calling that one a win with evidence.
The hard part is getting the joints loose enough to move without making the dragon feel cheap. If the bed is too hot, the tiny pieces get a little fused together. If the bed is too cold, the dragon starts lifting at the corners and then the whole thing becomes modern art, which is not what we ordered.
We are trying a slower first layer, a little more cooling after the first few layers, and less drama when somebody touches the printer table. That last rule is impossible because people keep walking by like the printer is not performing surgery for nine hours.
Next version gets color. Maybe blue and white, maybe orange, maybe something that looks radioactive in a good way. The goal is a dragon that can sit on a desk and make boring homework look less boring.
