Many years ago I dabbled with the idea of a 3D printer. At the time they were slow, flakey, inaccurate machines with plastic filament and extreme limitations on size and finish. Now they’re space age technology (to me at least) using resin. Greater definition, speed and reasonable print bed sizes … It’s not often I’m caught off guard by new gizmos but this has definitely caught me unawares! How out of touch am I with this? Anyone have first hand experience?
Just wait till you see the various kinds of SLS ones, they're used for full production manufacturing and can also do full colour... for £150k
I bought a cheap resin one - an Anycubic 4K - and the accuracy and speed of it is absolutely amazing. The details it's capable of are almost too small for my eye.
Well.. colour me intrigued... they're not mega money either in reality. Or does the money come from the sheer amount of resin you'd end up going through using it?
A mate has an elegoo mars, and the minis he's been printing us are absurdly good. I didn't need more Bloodbowl teams, but it's hard to say no.
I've always heard they're very good, they even do ones with active filtering on the air vents so you don't get too much smell.
To give you an idea on quality/detail. These are from a 15mm dwarf army he's printing And this is 35mm Everything bar the flock and rocks on the dwarf base was printed on a Mars 3.
This could seriously get me back into Epic scale. And as you say, increase the number of BB teams that sit around waiting for me to do something with. Where does your mate get the files/templates/whatever from?
Speaking for myself, I have a number of Patreon subscriptions, most of which end up here for sale later:- https://www.myminifactory.com/
All over the place. Patreon, Kickstarter and myminifactory are ones I remember being mentioned. The Punga bloodbowl teams in particular are brilliant.
I feel the need to point out that most Photo Setting Resins are toxic as all buggery and to make sure you have your ventilation and extraction set up when running a resin printer.
Yep. A lot of users have their printer in an opaque "grow tent" with a fan & ducting to vent out of a nearby window. (file photo - not my setup!)
A lot. Not all. I have an aquaintance(?) that decided to run one pretty much 24/7 for a couple of weeks without ventilation, and wondered why he was feeling ill... but then, he is "special".
