Nightfury Dragon (Nachtschatten Drache) from How to train a Dragon! (Die Drachenreiter von Berk)

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My son wanted the Nightfury dragon from "How to Train a Dragon" movie, his favorite film. After an extensive online search, I finally found a 3D object (not created by me). Using MeshMixer, I sliced it and added support material. While printing at 50mm/s for four hours, some supports broke and the hotend collided with the object, resulting in an unsightly print. Tomorrow, I will increase support material with Meshmixer before attempting a better print. MeshMixer's support is much better than Cura's standard support. My printer is a Prusa i2 with Merlin hotend, 0.3mm nozzle, PLA filament, and 0.2 layer height. To improve the print quality, I added another model with larger supports for better stability during printing.