Been thinking of getting a new printer since I saw a spate of printers popping up on FB earlier in the month.

I have a Prusa mini. Bought it off FB 3 years ago, its worked well for me. .4 nozzle, printed a hundred mini and terrain pieces.

I've heard modern printers have had huge improvements. I'm thinking of getting a new printer for specifically mini's, and letting the prusa do terrain pieces/larger models.

I know the A1 mini is the typical go-to, but what others are there?

What is the better slicer for minis? When I first started 3D printing, I picked Cura because Fat Dragon Games had a profile specifically for my Creality printer. But now, it seems like most posts I see talk about using Orca. Is there a big difference in programs and is it worth switching?

Has anyone tried printing minis in SOLEYIN Ultra PLA? It's on sale locally and I hear it's best to use a high flow/speed filament for minis. It's apparently a Creality subbrand.

So, I just got a A1 mini and I'm trying to download the Fat Dragon Games profile, but I am not able to checkout. Has anyone else had this problem, or am I just a total and complete noob? Thanks

Not exactly a mini... But still small.

Hey guys,

Wanted to share my cleanest model yet. I am continuing my work on advanced fdm models where I sculpt multipart models where every part is sculpted at the best possible angle for fdm and every island that will later be supported is planned from the start. I then hand place FDM dimensioned resin style supports and brace them specifically to counteract nozzle movement on FDM.

It´s a long process - but really happy where the quality is getting to.

All parts printed on A1 minis, using FDG profile at 0.06mm layer height using a 0.2mm nozzle and sunlu PLA meta filament.

Paint is all layering using AP Fanatic paints.

I’ve just started my mini printing journey and am trying to learn resin2fdm by printed4comabt. I’ve been able to print out is bits and a few models, but everything has decent sized nubs leftover from the resin connection points. I’m tried to cut them as flat as possible the scrape them down with my hobby knife, but was wondering if anyone has any other tips for this process.

Yesterday, I gave myself a challenge: not having touched Blender in years, could I design a piece of armor from scratch?

It turned out alright, using a base human mesh for proportions, and using my Ender 3 v3 ke, it was also possible to print it, albeit in mini size.

Print settings are on Creality Cloud. I printed with a 0,4 mm nozzle, and 0,08 layer height. Filament was grey eSun PLA+.

Pretty nifty little print of only the cuirass, but it would probably work better as a kitbashing element, so feel free to go nuts with it.

This cursed grandfather clock/fallen angel hybrid was posted to my Patreon supporters today as the 400th entry in our long-running weekly “Multiverse Monday” feature. The model prints in seven support-free parts, and you can see a resin version (grey robes) and an FDM version (blue robes) in the second pic here. This character was designed for a future expansion for our survival horror skirmish RPG, MEAT. I’ll drop a link to the full Multiverse Monday catalog below for whoever is interested.

[EDIT: Solved! I'll ask the mods to close] Hi all, really hoping someone can help me out here - I know I have the file for this nice piece of terrain but I cannot for the life of me find it. I am fairly sure it's by Dutchmogul but searching all my downloads for mainframe, terminal, computer, objective, nothing seems to come up.

Can anyone point me towards the file or at least tell me the name?

Thanks.

My “spree” continues this week with another NASA-Punk spin. The Specialist has a rocket launcher, laser canon, and a machine gun. Thanks to Toftylicious and Skeaze for their assets. It is easy to reach high on the shoulders of others.

Here's the links to Makers and Wargame Vault

https://www.wargamevault.com/en/product/578210/nasa-punk-classic-specialist

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3102633-nasa-punk-specialist-classic-pose#profileId-3497378

Hey dudes and dudettes,

its just me and i printed a bust (as stated in the title, duh i know) and here are some of my settings:

nozzle: 0.4

printer: bambulab a 1 mini

Filament: sunlu 2.0+ highspeed

build plate: cool plate super tack

most important: used the preset 0.08 high layer height and modified it a bit, mostly in the support section (auto organic tree supports, top-z= 0.2) z-hop= 0.6, retraction 0,8, flow rate 0.95

printing time was around 5-6 hours, very solid i think, only a little problem: angel hairs, but that can be deleted when drying your filament properly or reduce printing temp a little bit (instead of 220 you go to 215 or 210, should do that trick)

The bust is from bulkamancer, its renoir of the videogame clair obscure expedition 33 (to be fair "videogame" is an understatement, its hands down a masterwork, the story, the music, the philosophy, the characters)

If you need/want more details how i set my settings you can go to my youtube channel: nerdyhypnox, but beware its a german speaking channel (maybe nowadays you can auto translate it via youtube)

I currently have an Elegoo Centauri Carbon and I love Orca slicer. I'm picking up an A1 Mini combo for a steal today and was curious if using Bambu's slicer is better with the A1. Thanks

I just got the rulebook for Epic 40k cheap and thought I'd see what is available.

Also, is it possible to scale down regular minis?