Ultimate Guide to 3D printing

I clean my models with T-Röd and it works great and is alot cheaper the IPA.

great video, thanks a lot.

Hi
I am Kapil Meena from India, I have recently bought Elegoo Saturn 3 Ultra 12K printer. I have a very big doubt about the colors to paint my models. I am planning to use Acrylic Colors but it should be water-based or Alcohol-based?
I need to use them for spray paint and brush and I am also planning to buy liquid lacquer and primer.

Question: I'm a newbie and would like to know in what position should the build plate be in when not in use? Thank you for the information and tips in this video it is greatly appreciated.

Biggest problem I had with resin printers is the high bar of entry it has. The printers are not cheap, the resin is rather expensive (and is used up quiet fast), you need a lot of additional gear like protective gear, cleaning materials and some way of curing the prints, but all that additional cost will eventually be worth it once you printed its price in models.

HOWEVER too many people who are fans of 3D printing really love to ignore all the effort that goes into printing your own minis. They love to advice people to start printing their own warhammer models using stls that are too close to being copy right infringements for some peoples likings. 3D printing Models will save you money, but only once you printed enough minis to counter all the expenses you have when getting started. Also all the money you save with 3d printing your own models is countered with all the time and work you have to put in to print them.

Great video. My number one tip would be to take your time and not hurry, otherwise spill will happen 😅

I have a question. Do you have a tutorial on how to print using an envisiontech industrial ultra 3sp printer? Its really old and i cant find anyone who actually shares how to use it. My school has one and i dont know if im doing it wrong or if its fucked.

I use my resin 3d printer in my shed as I had heard the fumes can get a bit overwhelming, though I don't find them to be so, it's better to be safe than sorry. The first few prints (aside from the test print) kept failing and failing and failing, I was getting frustrated, but I did figure out why that was... I was printing in the winter. It was simply too cold in my shed for the printer, so, I got myself a cheap portable heater which is strong enough on low to heat my entire shed and since then failures are fewer and further between. I also lashed out the extra $$$ and got a wash and cure station and my god are fun to use as well as practical. But you can get away with using an alcohol bath and manually scrubbing so long as you are careful and using the sun to cure so long as you are prepared to wait for quite a while to make sure it is cured all the way through.

I do wish I could afford one of the newer printers on the market though (I got mine in 2020) as they are getting more reliable and better quality prints from what I saw.

My FDM printer I use in my house and I've never had a problem with heat or fumes or anything like that. I use PLA as well. I used to have a profile that was actually perfect for printing minis, though not as good as resin they are definitely capable of making ok minis. Unfortunately I have since lost that profile for my slicer but I think I should be able to find it again. But what I mainly would use FDM for is terrain and "dungeon" tiles where fine detail really isn't a major concern besides you can still get good results.

ATM I cant use my printers as my resin one has a busted control panel (my fault I'm afraid), and the FDM one has a clogged hotend and the plastic is at a point where it is impossible to get it out. Luckily I do have a replacement hotend but the control panel has been a little harder to get. Oh well hopefully soon I will have both up and running again and my 3D printing adventures can continue.

One last thing is Cults3d is also a great website to get STLs they have a ton of free high quality models (as well as some low quality ones) as well as paid ones.

This video brings light to many of my doubts ty! I'm about to get into the 3D printing world bc I want to make some plastic accesories for my 1987 Mitsubishi Montero. It seems a filament printer is the way to go. Thanks alot!

Dude this 3d printer is some kind of next level. I just checked their website and it looks amazing.
You're so fortunate to posess one of those! :)

How long can you keep the liquid resin in the vat?

Unique way to talk me out of getting on lol

the Reflex is in a weird place for me in the market - way too expensive for a hobby machine, and way too cheap for a pro machine. Hobbyists are probably better off with an Elegoo or Uniformation printer, while professionals should stick to Formlabs imho

How do you dispose of your used alcohol?

Oh geez forever to get on subject im out

hej! när man ska göra rent en resin print, hur viktigt är det att man använder Isopropanol ? går det att använda andra rengörings medel ?
om man nu ska använda annat medel vad ska man kolla på (vad letar man efter) ?
skulle annan alcohol passerat rengöringsmedel fungera ?
Exempel: Biltemas egna Ytdesinfektion Artnr. 36-0112 ?

Try curing your washing containers after stirring them up. It'll turn the suspended polymer molecules into sediment heavier than the medium they're in. It's not 100 % effective, but getting most of the suspended resin out of your cleaning medium really does help. Putting cleaning medium into the sun until it evaporates for safe disposal is a waste of material. I've got a plastic water bottle with ultra concentrated resin sludge that's entirely made up of the dregs I have removed from my cleaning medium using a plastic syringe. I'll let that cure one day and reduce my cleaning medium waste by something like 80 - 90 %.

Tackar. Just köpt en anacubic Photon mono 2

Yeah seems pretty easy with a 1600 DOllar printer ;)

A lot of great information! But the 2 I really liked that I never thought of was the support handles and the boiling water!!! Both are very useful for I will have to try them the next time I do a print!!!

I'm too afraid to get a printer. I know well enough what sort of figurines I'd be printing 😆

this video is near perfect, thanks! filters and ventilators and then it's 100/100, but best I've seen so far on the topic!

All I have is a cold auto garage so I cover my printer with a heated electric blanket. Works 101% fine!

Can I pour leftover resin from the Vat back into the original resin bottle to use again in the future?

Damn the 3D print if Emil in the thumbnail is actually pretty good for a noob

Tip: Use grow tents with accompanying air extraction and filtration systems. They are designed to be easy to control temperature and to filter the air they pull out. As an added bonus, if your neighbors get confused and think you're using them as actual grow tents and you get raided, you can use it as an actual grow tent after, as the cops won't come back after finding your 3d printing setup the first time they come to check ;)

Saturn 4 Ultra. Just got it. Unreal. Right out of box.

I was planning to get one,but this video is telling me it's a lot of work. Plus the health side of 3d printing concerns me. I was thinking of getting via Amazon the Phrozen sonic 8k mini printer, the idea was to print forgeworld quality titans and marine bits with it. Is is a good choice?

Could a art toy printed with fdm printer with enough quality? I tried a resin printed and i had to return it because i felt bad because the resin is not good for me i dont kmow why... Thanks!!!

For keeping it clean i bought some cheap plastic for construction/painting and clamp it to the board.

Resin is messy, once Ive cleaned most of it. I blast the surface with uv (keeping the printer and other resin i dont want wrongly cured out of the way)

When the plastic sheet is to messy i just switch it to a new one.

Another tip is running tools used for resin in the wash and cure station to remove unhardened resin.


The sprue tip was a great idea. I will try that instead of trying to get a corner with the silicon scraper.

I found that FDM printer now a days actually do an amazing job with minor details, heck I'd say they rival Resin Printers, though RPs will always be the Goat when it comes to smaller details on much smaller models

How do you get rid of the dirty ipa once it is time to throw it away?

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I just going to put my printer in the bathroom and have the fan running 24/7

Does the brand of FEP really matter when it comes to cleaning the FEP and avoiding cloudiness?

minis on the bambu a1 ia possible

That is knowledgeable 28 mins, I thinking about buying 3d print but don’t know how to start, thanks for sharing

someone could tell me which model is the troll used in the thumbnail please :(

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