Dragon - Left Wing

3D Printed Dragon Left Wing

8/15/2025 - Version 1
Continuing on with making props, I present a Dragon Left Wing. It is designed like all the other props.
I'm making these designs available for others to give back to the community that I have benefited from over the years.
If you do print this, I would be very interested in seeing your work and any suggestions for improvements. It has been printed successfully. I don't
anticipate any errors but I will correct them if found by me or others!

Description:
It is composed of 29 separate pieces. (there are 2 test pieces used to test print and don't attach to the present).
Most pieces are 6mm thick with a 2mm thick raised edge that is 10mm high. This has proven to be plenty strong through several New York Winters.

Its approximate size is 663mm wide x 1152mm high (26in x 46in).
It holds 300 pixels. (Yeah, finally one of my props won't require modifying strings to work.)

I've had my printed props out in the Upstate NY weather the last 2 seasons and they held up very nicely. No damage and still going strong.
Might be different in hot environments but these aren't bothered by the cold or strong winds.

As for mounting, I did not place mounting holes as the pixels are quite dense and anticipate one set of holes isn't going to really help anybody. Let me know. As for standoffs, I started using these:
https://www.printables.com/model/313905-coro-prop-emt-and-pvc-stand-offs
These standoffs were recommended by, HAJunkie2022, and work quite well. I used them to mount my Rudy prop in my show. Since this prop has so dense pixels, you may need to modify (i.e. grind away) the standoffs to get between pixels.

Printer:
Each piece is sized to fit on an Ender 5 Pro printing bed (they fit in a 220x220 bed). Should be able to at least print several pieces at one time but
this won't always be the case.

I have updated my puzzle ends to fit better with less printer setting modifications.
The following changes have been made:

1. The puzzle joiners have been modified to mate better without modification after print or changing slicer settings like "compensation" and "expansion" settings. If you have printed my other older props, please make sure you remove these settings as I suspect there will be issues now with holes being too big!
2. I have added small holes on either side of the joints to allow using Zip Ties to keep the pieces together, better and without glue! Sure you will have to add zip ties but the holes are made for smaller ties and these are quite cheap!
   3.The hole size was modified and made slightly bigger to allow for easier placement of pixels. I can't guarantee this will be the same for all pixels. I learned this recently as some of my original pixles from years ago didn't have consistent diameters. Great lights, still running after 6 years but they had to be shaved down some to fit the holes. My newer lights fit well as these seem to be more consistently the same diameter.

XLights:
There is an Xlights custom model provided for this prop. I would like to thank fellow Thingiverse contributor: JunpeiIchiban. They created the Xmodel file for this prop. They also tested printed the prop it looks great.

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