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 MDSW wrote:
Any reasonable sources for the eSun water soluble resin? I saw the great Youtube review, but am having trouble finding available, like on Amazon, etc.

Nothing so far outside from Aliexpress, I'm afraid.

Man, great thread. I am almost set on getting the Mega next week when the Chinese have their massive sales on 11/11 and it will be below 200€. The Photon stuff looks ace, but resin is nasty stuff, right? Do you have your printers in your living area?

PS for anyone reading, the Photon is 260€ on Amazon.de right now. You could literally get both the Mega and the Photon for the cost of 2 new Necromunda starters

I keep my printers in an upstairs bedroom, and when I am actively printing, the door is closed and there is a fan in the window venting outside, so the whole room is negative pressure.

I'm not sure that resin is any less safe than FDM printing, which is more unsafe then previously thought - a study recently found FDM printing emits significant levels of VOCs.

So regardless of which you get, use adequate ventilation. For the resin printing, you also want gloves - getting uncured resin on your skin can cause allergic reactions at a minimum.

I have the I3 Mega, the Photon, and the Photon S. They're all great printers.

The green resin that came with my Photon I thought smelled powerful bad, yet the Eegloo Gray resin I went with after some suggestions smells not bad or near as strong - oddly I kinda like the smell of it but maybe I am weird lol

So changing resins may make a big difference to you on that front. For my part I have it in my basement workshop and that contains the smell just fine.

Yeah, I find the Elegoo grey smells a bit like the nail shop when I take my wife to get her nails done. I have an Elegoo Mars resin printer and it only smells briefly when you remove the lid. I cut a piece of plastic sheet to drop over the resin vat when the cover is removed to keep anything from falling into the resin and keeping any fumes down and it works great. I have it in my large game room next to my desk where I work all day long and I smell nothing while it is running.

I can't say enough how much I love the Elegoo Mars printer, along with my Ender 3 Pro, I can handle anything I need with amazing details - both are the best printers IMHO at their price point available.

I am ready to try some SainSmart resin soon, as they say the smell is not bad either


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Actually, I currently use the Elegoo Grey ABS-like and really love the still slight flexibility when cured - it will not shatter if dropped. I have some SainSmart coming so hope it does act similar - anyone had any experience with SainSmart? It is on sale, so it was a cheap and highly reviewed alternative.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Man, great thread. I am almost set on getting the Mega next week when the Chinese have their massive sales on 11/11 and it will be below 200€. The Photon stuff looks ace, but resin is nasty stuff, right? Do you have your printers in your living area?

PS for anyone reading, the Photon is 260€ on Amazon.de right now. You could literally get both the Mega and the Photon for the cost of 2 new Necromunda starters

I have everything in a dedicated room, but the brands I use leave almost no odor... most of the odor comes from the cleaning alcohol, truth be told.


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So I wanted to try and make a bigger print using the resin printer. As big as possible. So seeing as I had the files, I tried this:






...unfortunately, as you might notice, there was not enough resin left in the vat when I put the middle to print, so... yeah >_>

I'll have to redo that part, but I'll use that unfinished one for scenery, I think.

Looks great! What settings did you use and which printer? I'm running low on resin and need to get some more which is why I haven't printed much recently other than adding to my bag of (misprinted) shame. Plus I have two minis that I cobbled together that did work out that I have yet to paint and I promised myself that I wouldn't get too far behind in that regard.

 warboss wrote:
Looks great! What settings did you use and which printer? I'm running low on resin and need to get some more which is why I haven't printed much recently other than adding to my bag of (misprinted) shame. Plus I have two minis that I cobbled together that did work out that I have yet to paint and I promised myself that I wouldn't get too far behind in that regard.

Let me see... the sides were done on the Photon at 10 seconds per layer (probably could reduce it to 8s, but eh). The body, turret and sponsons were done on the Mars at 8 seconds per layer, both using Elegoo grey resin.

Thanks. Both at 50 microns?

Yup, everything at 0.05

A while ago I bought a plastic Contemptor dreadnought from Ebay. I have yet to paint it, and its lack of poseability made it kind of too similar to the one I did paint, so I thought I probably should spruce it up a bit, and change the weaponry too, to booth:







I printed a couple of kheres assault cannons for it, but I was printing a full Contemptor on the other printer, so I changed the weapons around (that's why it has two different colors of resin):







I should probably try to remesh the design sometime, as currently it's a little bit too blocky (you can see the triangles pretty well in some of the round parts)

 Albertorius wrote:


I should probably try to remesh the design sometime, as currently it's a little bit too blocky (you can see the triangles pretty well in some of the round parts)

I'm always surprised by this when I download files from places like Thingiverse. Unless you're specifically going for a polygon look I don't understand why everyone doesn't use the most triangles possible for detailed models? Is it a software limitation I'm not aware of depending on what you're modeling in? Or just a filesize consideration? It just stinks that even if you've got the best printer some models are going to look like 3D models because they're designed that way for no good reason.

Today I made a warsmith for my detachment:






A bit more "war" than "smith", granted, but I assure you, all those extra (servo) hands sure come... well, handy, when fixing stuff :p

Still not finished, but I've been working on the warsmith:

Test print of modular terrain from a KS:




All in all print quality is pretty decent, but I get some ghosting. I guess I should tinker with it to see what's causing it...

I've also ordered a bottle of water washable Elegoo grey resin from Amazon. We'll see how that works.

Your printer does great quality.

 Fajita Fan wrote:
Your printer does great quality.

Well, there's still room for improvement. Still, thanks!

Just made two minis from the Artisan Guild Patreon:

Nicely done. You definitely do a great job with the supports (or lack thereof).

Just about to buy a Mars as there pretty much the only affordable printer in th uk.
You mentioned elegoo new water cleanable resin was wondering if you had used it yet and how you found it, also is it still low odour like there normal resin?
Thanks

 warboss wrote:
Nicely done. You definitely do a great job with the supports (or lack thereof).

Oh, no lack of supprts I assure you ^^:



I tend to put a fethton of supports, probably way too many ^^


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SeanDrake wrote:
Just about to buy a Mars as there pretty much the only affordable printer in th uk.
You mentioned elegoo new water cleanable resin was wondering if you had used it yet and how you found it, also is it still low odour like there normal resin?
Thanks

I got the bottle a couple hours ago, so I haven't tested it just yet .

I'll try and do it tomorrow.

Yeah the Mars is on Amazon for just over £200. It's crazy.

 Flinty wrote:
Yeah the Mars is on Amazon for just over £200. It's crazy.

I'm guessing they want to unload them to concentrate on their new Mars Pro ^^

So I tested the elegoo water washable resin, and I have to say, so far I am very happy with it! For the test, I printed this guy:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3920897

And this is how it looked right after rinsing it in warm water with a drop of dishwasher and brushing it with the provided brush (yeah, the bottle comes with a brush for that ^^):




The cleaning process was so much easier that it's not even funny, you guys. It is a bit more expensive (49.99 euros a 1 liter bottle), but... you know, you won't be expending money on IPA anymore, so it's not actually that much more, and its so, so, SO much easier. I'm thinking I'll probably swap to water washable entirely from now on, if the quality is consistent.

This is the big guy after butting supports and filing it a bit:





It would only need a bit of green stuff to seal the holes and it would be good to go.

Thanks for the review. I had seen the water washable stuff come up... that makes resin printers basically a no brainer

Any idea what the new elegoo price point will be? Worth waiting for?

Great looking print! It's probably time I got a new bottle of some kind of resin myself and I'll consider the water washable one. I had been focused on a clear one for the visual effect of being able to print some clear parts (like lightsaber blades and such) but it is tempting to just be able to wash in water as well.

 Flinty wrote:
Thanks for the review. I had seen the water washable stuff come up... that makes resin printers basically a no brainer

Any idea what the new elegoo price point will be? Worth waiting for?

I've been hearing 300 euros. If you don't mind much waiting, and don't find a very good deal coming Black Friday, I'm sure it will be worth it. If you can find a Mars for cheap, well... it's really great.


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 warboss wrote:
Great looking print! It's probably time I got a new bottle of some kind of resin myself and I'll consider the water washable one. I had been focused on a clear one for the visual effect of being able to print some clear parts (like lightsaber blades and such) but it is tempting to just be able to wash in water as well.

I've gotten an elegoo transparent resin bottle on a flash sale, I'll see how it goes. Unfortunately that one's not water washable >_>


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I've been forwarded this:



I've used both gloves and a cleaning vat for cleaning, but... Something to think about. Basically, use gloves and everything, make sure you cure it completely befor handling, and make sure to cure the leftover resin in the cleaning vat before throwing it out (after that is mostly inert).

Definitely don't drink it even with gloves.


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 Albertorius wrote:

I've gotten an elegoo transparent resin bottle on a flash sale, I'll see how it goes. Unfortunately that one's not water washable >_>

As usual, LMK how it goes! I was looking at that and possibly the anycubic ones. I'm curious how good (or bad) the translucent resin without obvious color looks with a light wash coat to give it some color.

How's the smell on the water washable resin, since it seems to print well? I was thinking about picking up a printer to play with now that the costs are getting pretty reasonable, but the back room I'd be using it in isn't as separated as I'd like and the resin odor isn't something I'd want floating around.

 Trimarius wrote:
How's the smell on the water washable resin, since it seems to print well? I was thinking about picking up a printer to play with now that the costs are getting pretty reasonable, but the back room I'd be using it in isn't as separated as I'd like and the resin odor isn't something I'd want floating around.

Not too bad, but IMHO a bit more noticeable than the regular elegoo grey, which is almost non existent.

Hmmm given I also am going to have to setup my printer in my spare room would I be better off waiting for the pro?
As from what I have read a lot of the improvements are qol and safety features, like a carbon filter and better air tight seals to stop fumes/odour and being quiter and quicker.

SeanDrake wrote:
Hmmm given I also am going to have to setup my printer in my spare room would I be better off waiting for the pro?
As from what I have read a lot of the improvements are qol and safety features, like a carbon filter and better air tight seals to stop fumes/odour and being quiter and quicker.

I'd say that unless there's a very significant prince difference you'll probably be better off with the pro, if only because it has an improved led matrix.

Also, I fast painted with Contrast paints one of my last prints: