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3D Printing the Worlds Largest Hairy Lion on the gMax 3D Printer

Hey it's Joel's, a 3d printing nerd and well.
If I got something awesome for you, there's been a print that lots of people have printed and it's in dual extrusion flavor and big flavor in small flavor, whatever it's the hairy lion, and this is my entry into the standard carry lion.
This was printed on the raised 3d and 2 plus, and it was printed in the raised 3d.
Yellow PLA turned out pretty good.
The idea is simple: you're supposed to cut away this sacrificial wall where all of these hairs are tied into, and then you use a blow dryer to make the hair malleable and and moldable.
And you you comb the lion's mane of plastic hair back and then it looks awesome! That'S what we're going to do.
You may be wondering why this tape measure is here.
It'S because I have quite possibly the world's largest hairy lion print on my GMAX right next to me here, but let's, let's first get this one done: let's see how it looks, let's perfect our technique and then let's go for the world record, all right.
Here'S here's! How I think we should do it? I'Ve got my trusty to Authority knife here, I'm going to cut along the hairs on the side, then, hopefully free the sacrificial walk, and, as I do this, let's talk about this model.
This was made originally as an HD lion.
With a high polygon count by Thingiverse user Jeff, Roe Jeff Roe is also in the 3d printing Facebook group, I'm a part of and he's an amazingly talented designer and Primo's is the one who remixed that and added the hair.
Alright, I went around the hair with my Swiss Army knife and now I'm going to pull away the sacrificial wall and there it is there's a few more attached.
Actually there's there's one more attached there we go so here's the lion and here's the sacrificial wall awesome.
Now we need to fire up the blow-dryer.
I had asked my wife.
If we had a blow-dryer sure enough, we had a blow-dryer all right, I'm going to put it on the high setting and I'm going to hold it back here and see what happens might be loud I'll, try to duck the audio a bit.
But let's see what happens now, man, I am NOT a stylist.
Let me, let me tell you, I wonder if it have something to do with the Rays 3d PLA, and maybe I need to heat it more all right.
I think you can go back like that.
All right that friend is our windswept lion head say: let's do that! Maybe it'll focus on it right like that.
This is uh the cute little lion, I'm not I'm not going to lie it's a little awkward to have to hold a blow-dryer and to then blow-dry.
The hair, you have to hold the model and then you have to once the hair is a little bit melty.
You need to move it around, and so I'm hoping on the bigger one.
It'S going to be a little bit easier.
It looks like I know: the techniques that's needed, you have to heat the hair to the you, don't want the blow-dryer itself to push the hair around.
You want to heat the hair, not too fast.
That'S why we're not using a heat gun and then once you heat the hair, you want to use your hand to mold it about alright.
Now it's time, we've perfected our technique.
Let'S go for the world record ha ha here it is.
This is the largest hairy lion.
I think that exists.
In fact, let's get out the tape, the tape says it is 12 and a quarter inches tall, the GMAX build plate at 16 by 16 and it takes up nearly the full build plate, which is just crazy.
As I was printing this way, and it took, let's see it took just under a hundred hours to print this thing consecutive make Shaffer donated a 2.25 kilograms roll for this print.
I would take pictures of it at night and during the day I would text my wife from work and she would send me pictures of this.
I was able to catch it, bridging for the first time, which was really awesome.
Some issues, though, if you noticed there are some problems right here and as it was printing in the bed was moving.
It would wiggle.
This part of the wall would wiggle because it wasn't connected yet and that's why there's some layering consistencies, the layering of the sacrificial wall doesn't look as good as it could.
There are some sumsy issues on the Lions rear end.
I don't know I don't know about the rest of it on the inside, so here's the plan, I'm going to free the sacrificial wall from this side here and then I'll come around and then I'll free, the Lions bum, hopefully bring the pause and hopefully we'll have It and then I did get a bread knife because it has to reach down to get all the hairs okay.
So, in order to free this, I'm going to use a chisel to lift up an edge and then I'm going to use the build tacks spatula to get under it see it's stuck down pretty good right there.
Something gave oh, let's bring it over here, holy cow.
Ah, okay: this is huge holy cow, just under 100 hours make shape or blue PLA on a 2.25 kilogram mole.
Now we need to free the sacrificial wall, I'm a little scared right.
Now, I'm not going to lie.
I can stand up for this.
Okay, I made a mess.
Nice looks.
Okay, I think the wall I'm sweating, I think the oh, oh, it's heavy too.
It'S so heavy.
There you go argh you Wiggly to look at this giant mess.
I just created.
There'S some shards in there just get them all out, so it looks like this model did have some problems on the top where the hairs were they weren't connected to anything, it looks like it was having to bridge a bit at the very top.
Let'S see this one's falling out, so we'll just take that take that Primo's if you're watching this you're gon na have to fix the hairs at the top.
Alright, that's probably good enough for now point it's just full of hair fragments.
Now it's the time for us to style this lion's mane for light.
I had no idea how to free that lion eye I mean: there's there's hairs all over, so I'm going to try to heat these and bring.
I have no barber.
I wonder if that the actual size of the hairs themselves has something to do with it.
Alright, I'm just going to do it like this, I'm going to look at the camera, how much air so much hair, okay, I'll go high heat over here! This is hard work and shout out to all the stylists out there you it looks like I can use the heat to curl, I'm just trying to form it around in faith.
What do you think? Let me get a little closer.
Ah there we go all right.
This is uh, this is cool, so here's the model we had before and there's the big lion looks like he still has some hair's falling out some curled very stylish lion.
That'S for sure.
Overall, the print quality is decent.
The line itself.
It looks like there's some on the bum.
There are some layering issues.
I don't know if you can tell from that angle right there, but it's just worth showing you a lion's Rin, so you were looking at it.
That was fun.
This is cool a big.
Thank you to make shaper for that 2.25 kilograms, roll of PLA.
It came in handy and it looks like I still have some more on there.
Maybe maybe I can print something else.
A big thanks to Jeff Roe for the original Lion HD, the high poly count lion big thanks to Primos, who made this iconic model for us all to print.
He did say once I released this video big G max version of the hairy lion.
The model itself will be available in all the standard locations where this little one is available.
So that's nice, let's see right, make shaper Jeffro Primo's big thanks to my friends at G, create for making that awesome printer that was able to print this yeah.
Let'S call it good hey, you know what you're the king of your own jungle, don't forget to hug each other boy.
I love you guys that was

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