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With there now being a couple of options for scenery design's and miniatures.

Can anyone recommend the best printer for the lowest cost or just what specs I should be looking for?

If you want to do miniatures, you need a resin-based printer, which can print with higher quality than filament-based models. Expect to pay $1,500 for one, although there are a couple of tiny resin printers still in Kickstarter / early production phase that are around $700-1000.

Filament printers are cheaper, but the quality is poor - here's a good example of Da Vinci 1.0 ($500) print quality: https://gigaom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/2014/12/img_6036.jpg - on the positive note, while quality is poor, you can print objects up to 20 cm / 8" in size, though the max. size print takes something like 8-12 hours, depending how complicated the design is.

Of course you can always have a low-quality one at home, and order high-quality prints from Shapeways etc., but those are not cheap either.

Thanks for the reply.
So assuming I could stretch to a low to mid range resin printer what spec should I be looking for?
Tried a couple of reviews but they mostly don't cover suff like minis and scenery.

Keep in mind that nothing you can afford can print 28mm people of acceptable tabletop quality. For terrain and some vehicle parts, it can work.

Heroforge use 3D printers to make your own customised miniatures. A lot cheaper than buying your own!

Only convincing 3D prints I've seen have been scenery and boxy objects like turrets. Organic models, especially people, require printers that are far more expensive than buying the army legit, or making your own model and casting it yourself.

And even with the good stuff, they were normally using a high end printer at their work or library to pull it off.

The technology is still a bit far off to be useful to tabletop and wargamers right now. Give it a few more years and maybe then itll get cheap/good enough to be worthwhile.