Bunyip - Australian Monster Cryptid

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A Bunyip is an Australian monster or cryptid with little in the way of consistent visual description, so I picked my favorite parts, added a hippo body because I picture it being stocky, and mesh-mixed it all up, adjusting the sculpts to blend together better and adding some spikes, etc. Bunyip descriptions can be found at https://www.paranormal-encyclopedia.com/b/bunyip/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunyip, and http://www.australianhistory.org/bunyips.php. I went with a bull terrier head since it's a slightly odd-shaped dog head anyway, slightly horsey and likely to fit croc teeth. I replaced the lower jaw with the croc jaw, added croc teeth to the upper dog jaw, and added walrus tusks. I attached that to a horse neck and mane and attached that to a hippo body. I made the front legs dragon legs because I wanted something reptilian and menacing, back legs are seal/walrus flippers for swimming power, and I ended with a horse tail. Then I added spikes on the forehead and along the back to resemble crocodile scutes. This mesh and print needs work, clearly. The teeth, and most importantly, the tusks, don't want to print, and the scutes are not visible unless printed large. I would very happily take anyone's modelling or printing advice to improve this. I am kinda a novice. Feel free to try and print this, but as you can see it doesn't print great and is still a work in progress. If you have ideas, please comment, as that will improve the progress. Photos are from prints at 150% scale and at 30% scale (30% was wanted to be a DnD mini for a game). I also remixed from Bold Machines: Margo's Dog Named Eddie (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:457259).