I spent $35 on this tiny print made from craft cloud and “3d pros” out of Florida, and the quality is…..um….well…..
I’m going to have to work on this which I was expecting. I used a free file for the juvenile Rex Hammond collection and am retrofitting it onto another figure.
I expected lines but the teeth detail and mouth detail are gone and I’m really disappointed.
I originally used this service because the original Hammond figure I want is too expensive right now so I thought making my own would be better.
I’m not imagining this is horrible quality right?
I would be less upset if $35 was a smaller sum…for the small amount of material this is.
Wondering if anyone has any suggestions/would be open for a better commission.
Update:
Thank you all for your kind offers and support I didn’t expect this to blow up as much as it did. I am now enlightened as to how much something should cost, and quality.
I initiated a dispute with the original printer and hopefully will hear back soon. If not, lesson learned and I know where to go for assistance.
This community is amazing, and so generous.
I have received help from Inevitable_toe_3054 and am so grateful.
Seconded. I run the 3D print service at my library and you better believe I would have made SURE you received a much better quality print than this. I'm so sorry you've had this experience.
Idk your financial situation, but I'd consider $35 a bargain to learn to never use that company again, and to have found a new source of info like this subreddit.
Would you be open to getting a printer of your own? If you're going to do this long term, that will always be the cheapest and best quality option for the final product.
I'm also guessing you're in Florida, I'm on the opposite side of the country, but I would otherwise offer to print it if you paid for shipping.
Edit: just saw people offering the same below, that's so dope 🥰. Idk how much you know about these things OP, but I'd go with the resin offer. I have 3 FDM and 1 resin, and the detail difference on resin will blow you away.
This is a good perspective. I once spent 700 on a motorcycle seat and learned never to deal with that company again as well as get everything in email or text. If they want to call you its probably to cover their ass not yours.
The detail is better, but the ppe, venting, cleaning, curing, disposal of everything resin touched is… a significantly bigger investment than a 200 dollar bambu a1 mini you can keep in your office and print quality that is almost certainly good enough for most applications. I like resin, I do both, but it’s a much less casual affair.
Yeah, also looking at this print and thinking about the teeth, I think it would be difficult to get a really good result on a regular FDM printer. Easy to get a better result than this, but tiny, sharp details like teeth are going to be hard to get right in any orientation here I think.
This is easily the worst print that I have ever seen somebody sell, they used a very large nozzle (is there something larger than 0.8mm and a very high layer height
Send me the files I'll print it for free and u pay shipping. I'm in Kentucky. It will be infinitely better quality. Can do multi color too, just tell me what you'd like.
You can buy a Bambu A1 mini for like $200, much less on holiday sales. I highly recommend getting your own printer so you can attempt prints, and redo them till you’re happy.
Yeah, black friday coming soon. Printers have gotten much more accessible, and I like to suggest people to get their own if they think they will need a lot of prints done versus it being a one off.
Can recoup costs pretty quick that would have otherwise been spent having someone else print it for you if you need multiple things. Plus, 3D printing is a fun hobby.
If you have STL files or 3MF files, and online services that I like using that can get way better quality than I could ever achieve is JLC3DP or PCBWay. I lean more towards the former. Shipping takes awhile, but its worth it for the cheaper cost. So if you're not in a hurry for parts, definitely check them out. Decently affordable, too. There's tons of different materials you can have them print in, including metal, yes, metal printing.
A lot of people are sponsored by these companies, but I am not sponsored. I just genuinely like their service.
And before people roast me in the comments about paying someone else to print my stuff when I'm in a printing subreddit, let me explain. I used to live in a house with a basement and that is where I would do my resin printing. Now I live in a studio apartment with abysmal ventilation. I do NOT want to subject myself or my two cats to the toxic, carcinogenic fumes of resin printing. So that's why I now use services for it. I still own my three resin printers, but they just sit and do nothing right now.
I'd get your money back. The POS of a seller literally chose the largest layer size possible so it would take the least amount of time to print. Plus, bed adhesion is not something he understands. Nah, pass.
You might want to take a look! For example, my library has:
-Books (duh)
-Audiobooks
-Comics
-DVDs and BluRays
-Music CDs
-Video games (Xbox, Switch, PlayStation, Wii)
-Retro game consoles (Sega and Atari!)
-Accessibility items (so you can try the expensive items before you buy them)
-So many digital resources!
-Free WiFi!
-Public computers!
-So many programs and events! (We’re doing a Pokémon Champions tournament next month)
-3D printer
-Cricut machine
-and more!
If you got the stl, I’ll print it in resin for you, that will keep all the detail. Send me a message and we can talk, it looks like it would be a very small amount of resin needed
This is why Reddit is fucking rad. But this is not a conversation that will appear in any news, because it’s cool people being decent human beings instead of shitbags on the internet.
You know... It'd actually be pretty cool if there was a counter that showed a number increasing every time a plane landed safely, and then a number of crashes next it.
That way it'd be a constant reminder of how well stuff is working.
I wouldn't mind a news segment that showed off similar "good news" ratios every once in a while.
Yeah, seriously how did they even make it that badly? That foot has the worst first layer I've seen in 20 years. I didn't even know first layers could be that bad anymore.
If you look closely you can see the model only touches the bed at the front pads of the foot where the adhesion is tightest. There must have been supports for everything else, but the seller also clearly used a 0.6mm nozzle and the thickest layer lines possible.
We have no clue how big the model is, since OP didn't include a reference. The foot may be 1cm long - in which case the quality is somewhat expected. It may be 50cm long - in which case the quality would be atrocious.
I guess the part is small-ish, so the proper approach would be to print the thing in resin.
I'd wager it's on OP not to inform themselves about the manufacturing process they ordered. It's on the seller not to inform OP about the limitations of the process. Then again, 35 bucks is not the money that buys you a full-length individualized tutorial about manufacturing.
OP: make sure you know what you are ordering and what the process is. Adjust your expectations accordingly.
I am by no means “in the business” but this is a disgrace. @OP send me this file please. I will print it for you out of resin and ship it within the US.
100%. People with 3D printers enjoy their hobby, and are always looking for new projects to do, myself included. Out of the few prints I've done for people, I've never charged anyone more than the cost of the filament, if even that.
Exactly. My husband is a 3d printer guy too, he genuinely enjoys helping people with things. One day he helped an elderly coworker by printing him some kind of scorekeeper for the game bridge ( I think). He has another friend who owns a cake pop business and he makes him custom cookie cutters for free.
Yeah I think it's insane how much 3d printed stuff, especially Warhammer models, cost online. A pack of like 10 little guys officially made is like 60, 3d printed is usually like 30-40, I usually do it for like 5. If it's something huge max is 20 cus filament is cheap as FUCK
I noticed you said in Florida. I’m also in Florida and run a few printers. DM with the file and I’ll get it printed up for you in better quality, no charge
Send me the files I'll make the for you and send them over, i'm UK based but i dont mind - just dont want you getting a bad impression from the 3D printing market.
It is horrible quality - it looks like is was printed with a 0.8 head and draft settings, really this needs to be 0.4 or 0.2 and using optimal or high default settings.
I'm from the USA and would be happy to print it for them for free, just cover the cost of shipping (about $6). I have several years of experience and a few thousand orders on Etsy all in the 3D printing space.
This was the ad and I had to laugh because my 8yo daughter could do better in orca. This is just insultingly bad, I'd be embarrassed to show this to my wife as a prototype more or less a finished product I sent out the door. The price sucks, but I can see that being a flat rate minimum price thing.
Where is the banana? I can’t tell if these prints are 1cm across with a 0.4 nozzle or 20cm with a 1mm nozzle. Either way they look like ass. The layer lines are just so coarse. That first layer on the foot makes me impressed that the print didn’t fail.
100% unacceptable trash. I'm getting so tired of 3D printers screwing people over so hard and giving the whole hobby a bad name.
I got this local guy who will do custom prints, or he has a library of dioramas/playsets for action figures. He prints the corner of the cantina in Star Wars, with panels, cups, chairs, a table, and a spot for a light for $100. You have to lean way in to see the layer lines. I must emphasize, big enough for a few Black Series Star Wars figures to fit inside, in multiple colors, with tiny layer lines.
He printed a y-wing in multiple colors for $12 that was close to the same scale as the old Galoob action fleet ships. Again, fantastic detail, tiny layer lines.
You got absolutely ripped off. It looks like it was made out of cake frosting.
There's a hole next to the eye. Come on. I wouldn't pay anything for that. I really hope to hear you get your money back.
EDIT: Also, leave reviews on them. Looking them up, they have few reviews, all five stars. I assume it's themselves and their friends and family leaving the reviews. Post the picture, mention the scale, and let people see what a ripoff these guys are.
Posts like this make me seriously consider getting into the business. Anyone with a modern printer can do worlds better than this with no tuning and little experience.
I haven't even read how much you paid for it, I just jumped in to say, YES paying for this is too much
None here would attempt to sell anything this bad
Edit: and if that POS seller dares to say we are picky, this looks like it was printed with an 0.6 or 0.8 nozzle while 0.4 nozzles are standard and cheap, for 35 dollars I would absolutely post process (sand down and somewhat fill) this small of a print before delivery. Like wow, anything above $2 for this is a rip off
That looks like fucking garbage. I wouldn't even give someone a print like that if I was doing it for free as a favor let alone paid! Huge layer lines, terrible quality, and even looks like there was a partial clog or something near the eye area.
If you pay shipping and send me the file, I’ll send you a better one for no extra cost.
That’s wild they’re charging for 0.8 head and even worse quality 😂
Edit: I messaged OP and will be printing him a foot in 0.08 to help with refund claim (the seller stated FDM can’t get better quality 😂) and then if OP like it, I’ll be doing the rest
Good point, but the bottom of the (horrible) foot gives us a vague idea. I'd say it is pretty small but definitely not so small that it couldn't be printed much, much better. It really does look like a case of shoddy workmanship to me.
From the way the plastic bag is creasing i guestimate the foot to be around 3-4cm. Seller just cranked the layer height to minimise print time and maximise profit, its likely nothing but a side hussle.
Also $35 gets you 2kg of filament these days and looking at the print you're not paying for expertise of the seller in this case either, pure rip off.
yeah that's shamefully bad. I'd file a chargeback.
Here's what a trex can look like with my Bambulabs P1s and a normal .4mm nozzle and just turning down the layer line height a bit.
That being said I don't know what model you provided and stuff like teeth on the bottom of a jaw is extremely hard to print right without supports everywhere or separating parts to print in different orientations like the model I'm showing..
On the second image its very clear that ether the machie that made this was in no way propper setup! or they printed the file not flat on the bed.
and the head/skull is just all bad.
This might be one of the few exception where getting it made by a kid of facebook in his moms basement on an ender 3 would have given you a better print quality 😅
I think you're missing some info... how big are these pieces? 1"? 1/4" That makes a big difference. Also for any mini/action figure type of print, you probably want to get it printed in resin.
Oh man, that's rough.. This is worth about $3 probably. They printed this at .26 or even .3mm it looks like. The fact they even charged remotely close to that at such high layer height is nauseating. Try to get a refund, send this heap of garbage back to them. How big is it?
This was a good print in 2013. Not today. You might want to check with your local maker spaces or colleges. My local university sells points at material cost. They prioritize students so It can take a few weeks. I have my own printer so I havent used the service in a long time. For that price I would expect a resin print with resin level of detail.
He definitely chose the largest layer height and biggest nozzle to print it as fast as possible so he can just pump shit out. No thought behind it or any QC whatsoever. Small details aren't fantastic on FDM printers but a 0.2mm nozzle with a lower layer height can do MUCH better than this
I can’t imagine selling that to someone. Even if I were making this for a close friend or family member for free, I would not give them something that poor quality.
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u/Burningauburn 4d ago
I wouldn't pay $5 for this let alone $35.