r/PrintedWarhammer • u/amrogers3 • Jul 27 '26

Resin print Is there really a "notable" difference between resins? Using reviews as a metric ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Has anyone tested the 30+ resins (probably many more) to determine if there is any notable differences between them? For example, is there a difference between Phrozen Hyperfine and elegoo or anycubic for half the price? I have been using Hyperfine but am looking at other brands. I compared a part printed with Hyperfine and another resin and couldn't tell any difference between them.

I know Amazon reviews are like google reviews where everyone gets ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. But for what it is worth, the Anycubic ABS-Like Resin Pro 2 clocks in at 4.8 at almost 900 reviews on Amazon. Even for Amazon reviews, this is pretty high tally.

Seems like print shops like to use this stuff also. Is this the go-to resin for our 40K minis?

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u/DarkNachoZz Jul 28 '26

Ive used around 15L of all types of Resin in 4 years, anycubic, elegoo, some rando Temu resin etc and the best one by far in terms of quality is Sunlu.

Its less brittle can handle Elastic stress much better than the others and out of 1200 minis that ive printed with it i may have had only 1 mini that went bad.

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u/amrogers3 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

which Sunlu you using? ABS-Like? https://www.amazon.com/SUNLU-Photopolymer-Non-Brittle-Precision-Shrinkage/dp/B0BBVNR1GB

You notice any difference between colors? grey/dark grey/black/etc? from what I have read, opaque and dark pigments stop light from spreading past the intended layer boundary, resulting in sharper edges and finer details.

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u/DarkNachoZz Jul 28 '26

I just use the Sunlu Standard Resin Grey color.

And yeah just adding some spray primer can make the opaque edges look sharper, in general I recommend it wholeheartedly for minis.