This is what the 630-hour process looks like for 3D printing an extinct mega bird from New Zealand.

The filmer told Newsflare: "Moa were huge birds that lived in New Zealand until about 600 years ago when they went extinct. The largest moa could reach up to 12 feet high if it extended its neck straight up. This 3D print uses 3D models supplied by Auckland Museum and Daniel Thomas (please keep the attribution text in the video) and is made up of scanned bones from 4 or so moa. Some of the bones were digitally created or mirrored from existing bones. The moa printed here was the smallest species of moa, the Little Bush Moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis) which weighed about 30kg. They were flightless herbivores and didn't have any wings, not even vestigial ones. After 3D printing them over the course of a few months, I used a hot glue gun to glue the bones together. I wasn't sure how the bones bones were going to connect so the hot glue allowed me to change the position even after it had cooled down and dried without damaging the 3D prints. It used about 4kg of filament."

Date filmed: March 25, 2023
Printing time: 630 hours
3D printer used: Ender 3 V2 Neo

The 3D models used are from Auckland Museum and require that text be kept in at 00:05 - 00:15.

Moa were huge birds that lived in New Zealand until about 600 years ago when they went extinct. The largest moa could reach up to 12ft high if it extended its neck straight up.
This 3D print uses 3D models supplied by Auckland Museum and Daniel Thomas (please keep the attribution text in the video) and is made up of scanned bones from 4 or so moa. Some of the bones were digitally created or mirrored from existing bones.

The moa printed here was the smallest species of moa, the Little Bush Moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis) which weighed about 30kg. They were flightless herbivores and didn't have any wings, not even vestigial ones.

After 3D printing them over the course of a few months, I used a hot glue gun to glue the bones together. I wasn't sure how the bones bones were going to connect so the hot glue allowed me to change the position even after it had cooled down and dried without damaging the 3D prints.

It used about 4kg of filament.
Printing time: 630 hours
3D printer used: Ender 3 V2 Neo


The 3D models used are from Auckland Museum and requires that text to be kept in at 00:05 - 00:15.

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