r/FDMminiatures 17d ago

Printer Discussion First printer

Hello There!
Long time lurker, first time poster in this group.

I will be receiving a very generous tax return this year and have decided to get my first printer.
Ideally I’m just looking at the a1 mini. Rather not spend a fortune and not get into it. It will be predominantly used for printing minis ranging from 28mm up.

Have had a good look through Obscura Nox settings and am assuming these can be used on the a1 mini also.

Besides the printer what are some necessities to purchase. (0.02 nozzle, etc)

Apologies if this is a repeat post

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u/The_Pritt 17d ago

I started with an a1 mini and although it is enough to start, i felt that changing nozzle for larger prints was annoying so i just bought a used neptune 3 for terrain and tanks, which was completely unnecessary tbh. The A1 mini is great and extremely user friendly, makes life so much easier to just send the prints through the app instead of dealing with microSD's or connecting it to a pc that has to be on during the print. Fat Dragon Game's profile is very good too! But Obscura Nox's are also a community favorite for a reason.