I'm surprised by the quality of the print, I'd love to see other pieces you're proud of (and some you weren't so happy with, too)!
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I'm pretty happy with the goblin and skeleton, the orc's bow is a little wonky at the top because my layer time was too short for my printers cooling. None of these has had any post processing done yet, printed without any supports also 0.2mm nozzle and 0.08mm layer height.
I think I'll try printing a sort of "buffer tower" next time to increase layer time on prints with pointy tips and see if it helps.
Damn, dude. I've been thinking about getting a 3D printer and was leaning towards resin because I heard it was better for minis, and I see how it's different, but these look perfectly fine and there's no fumes or toxic sludge to deal with. Since I mainly want it for printing household fixits and ease-of-use is a factor, being able to get back into tabletop gaming (and painting) as well is a very nice bonus. I feel pretty good about going with an FDM printer now, thanks for sharing!
I mean, they're definitely good enough for me but resin does give much better fine details. But I also mainly use my printer for functional prints, this is just a nice addition to its uses.
I have 3 printers and first was the OG ender 3 pro with only couple of mods (mainboard and cooling duct/fan), while it is slower and needs more manual calibration, I get same print quality than bambulab A1. It is actually even better on overhang parts
I have switched out the fan duct and heat block (to use normal volcano) on mine as the only HW changes, and then I've flashed the main board with klipper. Using klipper has been a crazy step up in printing quality over the stock firmware because it gave me the control needed to do a proper tuning of my printer.
Looks great! You probably can get even better results with manually created supports.
Yeah i probably could, there's definitely some supports that were not needed that I could have avoided...but for fully auto-generated supports I think it did a pretty good job.
That looks incredible for FDM! I've tried a few times but my Ender can only do .2mm layer height at best.
But I've been following this YouTuber's efforts and he gets really good results on FDM and has pointers, settings, tools, and supports that might help you get even better results (if you haven't seen these already):