Summary

This is Kushala Daora, the steel elder dragon and flagship monster in Monster Hunter Dos. This dragon controls winds that it uses to attack.

Print Settings

Printer Brand:

Duplicator 4

                                            <p class="detail-setting printer"><strong>Printer: </strong>                     <div><p>Wanhao</p></div></p>                                                                                <p class="detail-setting rafts"><strong>Rafts: </strong>                     <div><p>Yes</p></div></p>                                                                                <p class="detail-setting supports"><strong>Supports: </strong>                     <div><p>Yes</p></div></p>                                                                                <p class="detail-setting resolution"><strong>Resolution: </strong>                     <div><p>0.2 mm</p></div></p>                                                                                <p class="detail-setting infill"><strong>Infill: </strong>                     <div><p>10%</p></div></p>                                                    <strong>Filament:</strong> Clas Ohlson PLA                Black                    <br>                        <p class="detail-setting notes"><strong>Notes: </strong>                    </p><div><p>I turned the body on it's back, creating supports on the back part of the wings. Working a bit with removing supports i got it to look quite good. </p></div>

Post-Printing

After removing support, I glued the head to the body and fixed the bits tha needed some work, like some of the support areas. After that i painted the whole thing grey and silver after that. Then I applied a brown wash to get a little bit of rust look, and then highlighted with drybrushing silver paint. when the painting was done I glued it to the stand.

How I Designed This

I made this in blender by making a base mesh and sculpting on a multires modifier. When the model was done I printed it, but the wings was to thin. Because I was changing my workflow at the time I paused on the project and started again over a year after. I then apllied the multires and added a decimate modifier to get less geometry. Then i sculpted it usin dynamic topology and remade the wings from scratch.