Per "Fair Use" laws, this is a 2D to 3D transformation inspired by the 1998 Mulan animated film.
^ The photo above depicts each step in the design phases for this project, each one a small change in fit, or style.
This tedius work represents an original 3D interpretation of art from the animated film, for educational purposes, with the intent to demonstrate 2D-to-3D transformation techniques. The resulting objects are not for sale, or for commercial use. The work is based on a substantial, and creative interpretation of unseen viewing angles of the object as presented in 2D animation cells, depicted below in the refrence images.
Colors used above:
Teeth - Sunflower Yellow (10402) PLA Basic
Head - Maroon Red (10205) PLA Basic
Eyes - Vermillion Red (discontinued) PLA tough
Lips - Blue Grey (10602) PLA Basic
The resulting 3D printable art work functions as an accessory shroud for DB Firearms Czech Nine series, giving it the look and feel of Mulan's 火龙出水 (Huolongchushui) style rocket.
Inscribed on the side of the shroud are the words: "Now All of China Knows You're Here", a line spoken in the clip below...
In this early scene, the Huns (led by Shan Yu) have breached the Great Wall of China. As they overpower the Chinese soldiers guarding the wall, one soldier manages to reach a signal tower. Despite being confronted by Shan Yu, the soldier defiantly lights a signal fire – one of many beacons placed along the Great Wall designed to quickly communicate threats across long distances.
After the soldier lights the beacon, which triggers other signal fires that rapidly spread across the wall into the distance, Shan Yu calmly states, "Now all of China knows you're here.
The soldier responds, "Perfect."
This exchange is significant for several reasons: It establishes the threat level – Shan Yu isn't concerned about China knowing of his invasion; in fact, he seems pleased that they'll know he's coming. It also demonstrates Shan Yu's confidence and intimidating presence. The line has become iconic partly because it shows Shan Yu's menacing character and foreshadows the conflict that drives the entire story, but it also gained popularity as an internet meme used to humorously indicate when someone has done something that draws widespread attention.
The 火龙出水 (aka Huo Long Chu Shui, or Fire Dragon Out of Water) is a real 2 stage rocket from the Ming Dynasty, and it is the actual inspiration for the rocket shown in the 'Avalanche' scene from Mulan.
In this pivotal scene, Mulan's unit (led by Captain Li Shang) is ambushed by the Hun army in the mountains. When the Huns are charging toward them and the situation looks dire, Mulan grabs the last cannon/rocket from Yao. Instead of aiming it directly at the Hun leader Shan Yu as others had tried to do, she runs toward the mountain and fires the rocket into the snowy mountainside above the Hun army. This strategic move triggers a massive avalanche that buries most of the Hun forces.
In order to install this shroud, you'll need 3 brass inserts, and their associated screws. I used M3.5 Tapered Heat-Set Inserts with a 3.81mm installed length from McMaster-Carr. For the front screw hole, you'll need to line up the shroud, perhaps drill a small hole into your lower, not too deep, and set the heat insert. You should then be able to screw the shroud into the front of the Czech Nine lower to hold it in place. The two holes on the side of the dragon head will need inserts mounted in them. This will allow you to screw through them, and the screws will in turn then snug up against the sides of the lower. You can optionally drill small holes to allow the screws to rest in them preventing movement. If you don't have movement issues with the front hole operating alone, you can omit the side inserts if you like.
For print testing 2 walls, and 15% gyroid is recommended, use common sense settings when printing the final usable shroud, you can simply use your favorite 3D printed lower settings. If you are a 8 walls, 99% rectilinear kind of person, so be it. Print orientation seems only to matter if you want to minimize the number of supports printed. Vertical, horizontal, and 30-45 degree angle prints have all been tested, and all work fine.
These files should support all known models as long as they are on Czech Nine frames. KG99, Tec-9, and Tec-DC9 should be compatible with the full length KG99-Tec9-DC9-MulanDragon v1.step, where as the shorter KG99-Mini, Tec-9 mini, and AB-10 models will want to use KG99mini-Tec9mini-AB10-MulanDragon v1.step. If you have problems with your barrel clearing the lip of the dragon, you can add a barrel extension, or alternately a 3/4X10 (female) to 3/4X10 (male) suppressor adapter (without the suppressor unless you want it!).
If you would like to build on this concept the "dev blanks" models are included as well. The dev blank can be used to spot check dimensions of any models that were not taken into account during the design phases of this project.
The negative blank will allow a representation of the upper, lower, and mounting holes to be represented in any generic model.
If you made it this far, and have no clue what a Czech Nine is, this will be useful:
DB's Czech Nine is yours for the printing
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GB Intratec / Interdynamics "Parts Kit" search
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This direclty means that you can NOT charge for access to these files, and you can not add them to DefCAD, or paywall them via Legio platform, because you explicity do not have permission to do so, you are in fact specifically prohibited from doing so without potential legal ramifications.
Most importantly Friends don't let friends use FedCad
You should probably be using the free GunCAD Index anyway.
A Vice News documentary "I 3D-Printed a Glock to See How Far Homemade Guns Have Come" gave me the idea for this project. The opening scenes feature an AWCY Jade Emperor print for the AWCY Scz0rpion EVO. After kicking around a few ideas with an artist friend, she hammered these STEP files out for me instead of allowing me to talk her into trying to recreate the original AWCY dragon head. This took us several weeks of back and forth printing, and measuring.
The Jade Emperor Evo set (Mr. All of China Knows You're Here)
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Current file MD5 sums are as follows, make sure you have the latest version of this repo:
MD5 (KG99-Tec9-DC9-MulanDragon v1.step) = d2c2b24213201b2f531e2e03153b178b
MD5 (KG99mini-Tec9mini-AB10-MulanDragon v1.step) = 9cad9c41925868d907ccf4b32a0a4d80
MD5 (KG99mini-Tec9mini-AB10-MulanDragon-Slotted v1.step) = efd7f657818b3abdc59e7d2c047f611a
MD5 (Tec9DevBlock.step) = 03f7c104b3b408b17462e2904a2d43ae
MD5 (KG99-Tec9-DC9-MulanDragon v1.stl) = a0e410f82d2bb8f13e55bb8ee9ca5ea6
MD5 (KG99mini-Tec9mini-AB10-MulanDragon v1.stl) = f8e77ad800e2e80bea0df9d7ea2a1429
MD5 (KG99mini-Tec9mini-AB10-MulanDragon-Slotted v1.stl) = 2b3ddd2d0c927ad129b6d0a99021e878
MD5 (Tec9DevBlock.stl) = 124c6f16616514e52526e119c929247d