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Fajita Fan wrote:I really wish I could get my hands on a resin printer.

It's not really all that expensive anymore... at least when compared with starting a new GW game, for example

warboss wrote:Looks great, Albertorius. Were those at 50 microns? You can definitely see the difference in the details with models purpose built for printing as compared with the more shallow details on my first test print.

Those have indeed been printed at 50 microns, and yeah, being made specifically as minis makes a world of a difference.

Wow, the tech is moving fast in this space! Great execution of prints

 IGtR= wrote:
Wow, the tech is moving fast in this space! Great execution of prints

Thanks! I'm quite happy on how they turn out, tbh.

I'm working on getting my office a resin printer, we have the money but it's hard sometimes getting people to spend on money on my toys *AHEM* work devices.

 Fajita Fan wrote:
I'm working on getting my office a resin printer, we have the money but it's hard sometimes getting people to spend on money on my toys *AHEM* work devices.

I've ended up basically assembling a workshop at home for this stuff >_>

This weekend I've printed a couple of Marauder Destroyers, scaled for AI. They are... big. Like really fething big. Like "it almost doesn't fit into the printing bed" big:




I really like the end result, though, and it was all a single piece:






And even with the amount and size of supports I added (I think I put a lot more than needed, and most of those were big ones), the backside has printed beautifully:






Plus, as I said before... BIG:

Those look epic! Figuratively and literally.

I'm iffy on printing models that are sold but that's just me. I'm all about weapons, terrain, and conversions though.

Painted it up, so here it is!

Looks very good.
Did you design it yourself ?

It clearly needs more centerline guns and bombs on the racks. Looks very dangerous!

Amazing prints, really! Congrats.

brumbaer wrote:
Looks very good.
Did you design it yourself ?

Afraid I'm not at that level yet ^^


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 Modock wrote:
Amazing prints, really! Congrats.

Thanks! I'm slowly getting the hang of it

Outstanding!!!

...and, as far as printing things that are currently sold, if there is a 3D stl file out there and you are not mass printing to sell everywhere, that works for me.

Honestly, mass printing for selling is not really very appealing to me, given printing times and all the cleanup you have to do. As far as "existing things" (I mean, the Marauder above is actually a design from scratch) it will also help me do things like changing the scale.

Lik,e for example, this weekend I've disassembled my fdm printer to give it a much needed maintenance. I've also changed the hotend and the stepper motor, oiled it, cleaned all the muck... you know, stuff. After reassembling it, I made some test prints to check calibration.

But well, cubes are sort of boring:



I liked how they ended up looking (for fdm I mean) so I decided to do a full bed print:



Now I sort of want to print all of the rest in color-appropiate plastic and hang them up my wall ^^

Very cool! On some of the emblems, you might try if your slicer has an 'enable ironing' setting, as when I use it in Cura it smooths out the top of prints just like glass - takes it a bit longer to print, though...

I have tried it sometimes, but the results so far haven't been very encouraging, tbh.

Love seeing the experiments.

Everything you do is pretty impressive, and I this really is starting to look like the future

Looks great and definitely a testiment to the strengths of having a solid 3d printer for larger projects. How much time did that biggest battletech placard take to finish?

IGtR= wrote:Love seeing the experiments.

Everything you do is pretty impressive, and I this really is starting to look like the future

Thanks for the kind words

I agree, we're currently living in the freaking future, and I personally am loving it.

warboss wrote:Looks great and definitely a testiment to the strengths of having a solid 3d printer for larger projects. How much time did that biggest battletech placard take to finish?

The big one took about 11 hours, but that's only because I printed it using the "extra quality" settings I've prepared to print scenery, meaning small layers (0.12mm) and slow movements. I probably could have printed it in half the time using the regular settings and it would have looked more or less the same.

Your 3D prints are really fantastic - quite a production line going - very impressive!

Just picked up a Photon here and starting to have some luck with it - curious - what resins have you had the best results with on yours? Your prints seem crisper on the detail vs. what I have done with mine so far.... Thx!

petrov27 wrote:
Your 3D prints are really fantastic - quite a production line going - very impressive!

Just picked up a Photon here and starting to have some luck with it - curious - what resins have you had the best results with on yours? Your prints seem crisper on the detail vs. what I have done with mine so far.... Thx!

Thanks!

Well, I've found that usually the most important thing tends to be finding the sweet spot in curing time per layer for the resin you're using. Too long and your prints will look coarser, big bigger layer lines. Too short and you might end up having to scrap a failed print off the fep.

It's a bit of a trial and error thing, but for the Photon there's a "latitude test" that you really should use for every new resin you wanna use:

https://github.com/altLab/photon-resin-calibration

Follow the instructions there and find out the sweet spot for your printer and resin. That will help, I assure you.

Personally, I've had some problems with a batch of Anycubic resin that they sent me expired (so that wasn't really a surprise) and sometimes with the more transparent ones. I've got the best results using Elegoo fast grey resin (and the new "ABS-like" formula they're using) and the FunToDo white. Between those two, I'd pick Elegoo because you can get it off Amazon next day delivery at a very competitive price and because the sweet spot in time is much shorter (7-8 seconds per layer for the Elegoo at 50 microns versus 12 for the FunToDo).

Metal Weekend!

This weekend I've decided to design some stuff to spruce up my 30k loyal Iron Warriors:

First, I remixed some very nice Mk III and Mk IV shoulder pads I found with the IW logo:



The design fits perfectly over regular SM arms:



Then, as I liked the results, I decided to make me some breacher shields, as I don't have any and I've always liked how they look:




All in all, I'm really happy with them

They look great... and I thought they looked familiar

Shoulder Pads for Warriors in Iron found on #Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3912640

 Flinty wrote:
They look great... and I thought they looked familiar

Shoulder Pads for Warriors in Iron found on #Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3912640

Ahahahah, guilty ^^

I haven't uploaded the shields yet, but I will.

I didn't know you were on there. Followed!

 Albertorius wrote:
[Personally, I've had some problems with a batch of Anycubic resin that they sent me expired (so that wasn't really a surprise)

If you're referring to the date on the bottle, that's the manufacturing date, not the expiration date. Resin is good for at a minimum of 2 years when properly stored, so no resin produced by Anycubic has yet expired.

I'm not discounting you may have gotten a bad bottle, of course - it happens.

 Ouze wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:
[Personally, I've had some problems with a batch of Anycubic resin that they sent me expired (so that wasn't really a surprise)

If you're referring to the date on the bottle, that's the manufacturing date, not the expiration date. Resin is good for at a minimum of 2 years when properly stored, so no resin produced by Anycubic has yet expired.

I'm not discounting you may have gotten a bad bottle, of course - it happens.

Well, if it was the manufacturing date, it was made in the future, as it was a month after I got it... Problem is I didn't actually check until a while later, as I was using other bottle.

Oops, looks like they changed it just to avoid that sort of confusion.

Nevertheless, I stand by my contention that as Anycubic has only been manufacturing resin for about a year and a half, nothing they have produced has expired due to old age; and I don't doubt at all you got a bad bottle, it definitely happens. If it was improperly stored hot enough prior to you receiving it, I think that would do it regardless of when it was manufactured.

By the way, have you ever tried the bio-resin made by eSun? It's pretty terrific - strong, easy to use, just a little flex so it's not brittle. The downsides are the bottles are awful and it's an absolutely hideous color... but we paint our prints so whatever.

 Ouze wrote:
Oops, looks like they changed it just to avoid that sort of confusion.

Nevertheless, I stand by my contention that as Anycubic has only been manufacturing resin for about a year and a half, nothing they have produced has expired due to old age; and I don't doubt at all you got a bad bottle, it definitely happens. If it was improperly stored hot enough prior to you receiving it, I think that would do it regardless of when it was manufactured.

Well, I'm not really sure either way, but it really, really doesn't print >_>. I can say that I'm storing it properly, but other than that... yeah

By the way, have you ever tried the bio-resin made by eSun? It's pretty terrific - strong, easy to use, just a little flex so it's not brittle. The downsides are the bottles are awful and it's an absolutely hideous color... but we paint our prints so whatever.

No, I haven't yet: So far I've used Anycubic, FunToDo and Elegoo resins.

I'm pretty interested in eSun's water washable one, as it would make my life much easier.

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.