The hardest part of this build has to be the sheer run length: 84 hours on the machine, the maker's longest FDM effort to date. At around 200mm tall it also dwarfs the 60 to 90mm figures that usually come off this bed in 8 to 16 hours. The preparation clearly shows. Before starting, Dungeons & Derps spent many hours refining the setup obsessively, trying different filaments at different temperatures, comparing prints with the window open against closed, running a filament dryer, and resting the printer on a heavy cement square to cut vibrations.
The job ran on a Bambu Lab A1 with a 0.2 nozzle and Sunlu PLA Meta, sliced in Orca Slicer from a preset another designer shared, one the maker still recommends. The subject is the Fiendish Gateking, a winged, horned demon with four arms and segmented armor plating, one hand gripping a large scythe, planted on a sculpted rocky base.
It came straight off the printer with no post-processing or cleanup yet, and the surface still holds up. Layer lines nearly vanish on textured areas like scales and feathers, and the slight gloss of this filament hides some of them while unprimed. The single flaw is a layer shifted on the upper part of the blade where the nozzle caught it, and the maker calls that nothing beyond fixing.
Worth noting Dungeons & Derps has around 1500 print hours logged and only picked up the printer at the end of July. The open question is documentation: the current Orca settings have not been written down, and it remains unconfirmed whether a settings walkthrough will appear at all. Each individual tweak adds only 2 to 3 percent by the maker's account, and the shared preset alone gets a user about 90 percent of the way there; having the refined profile on record would matter a lot.
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