Cauldron-Hoard Dragon Wyrmling - Tabletop Miniature

A dragon wyrmling guards its hoard, and the hoard is one stolen cooking pot. The cauldron sits upturned and dented in the cave floor, rim battered, a burn scar crusted across one side, a few coins worn smooth around it. The wyrmling is squatted over the lot: head and paws too big for the body, haunches low, chest puffed out, chin dropped almost onto the copper. The wings stay clamped flat along the spine like a folded cloak and the tail loops once around the whole mass to tuck its tip under the jaw, so nothing projects past the rim of the base. Surfaces are cut as fat keeled scale rows with a waxy satin sheen, a pebbled belly, blunt horn plates ridged along brow and jaw, and thick leathery wing membranes on heavy spars. Painted as designed it reads jade-green over the back, deepening to bottle-green at the spine, with cream throat plates, ochre horns tipped soot-brown, citrine eyes slit black, and penny-copper metal gone verdigris at the crust. Whoever lost the pot is not getting it back. The posture is the joke and it carries across a room: a tiny tyrant defending almost nothing, daring you to reach in. One STL. A single part, not cut, watertight and manifold, 202,202 triangles. Bounding box 146.057 × 146.004 × 171 mm. The cauldron, coins, tail loop, feet and round plinth are one continuous volume, and the underside of the base is milled flat. Print time came back at 1,066 minutes — 17 hours 46 minutes — on the profile it was sliced with. Weight was not reported by that slicer: extruded volume times the density of PLA works out to about 311.71 g in PLA, and nothing else about materials has been measured. Overhanging surface is 9.77 percent, and the thinnest wall in the mesh measures 1.456 mm, which is the number to scale against if you shrink it toward 28–32 mm heroic. It was checked against the build plate at full size and fits; no reduced-scale print has been measured. No assembly. It arrives as one body with the base included in the same mesh. Print it for yourself, as many copies as you like, and keep the file to yourself — the download is not for resharing or resale. Selling prints is covered by a separate commercial tier, priced at four to five times the file price. Changelog 2026-10-11 — First release.