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Beginners Guide to Printing Miniatures

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Complete Beginners Guide to Printing Miniatures

Welcome to our Complete Beginners Guide to Printing Miniatures. The popularity of printing miniatures has grown massively over the last 12 to 18 months as the hardware has become more affordable and accessible to the consumer market.  Whether you want to print miniatures for your tabletop games or just to paint, there is no better time than now to enter the hobby.

This guide is your first introduction to 3d Printing Tabletop miniatures and while not delving into full detail, it will ensure you are equipped with enough knowledge to be able to select the correct equipment whilst ensuring you are informed of all the important considerations before you press the buy button on your new printer.

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The Best 3D Printer for Miniatures

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Beginners Guide Part 2

The Best 3D Printers for Miniatures

Updated July 2021

This is the second part of our Complete Beginners Guide series and you can read the first part here that covers the basics of printing tabletop miniatures, before going on to read our recommendations of the Best Printers for Miniatures.

Having established that the only choice for printing great quality miniatures is Resin Printers lets get to the nitty gritty and get you on your way to picking a great printer and printing out those armies.

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Remove, Clean & Cure your 3DPrint

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We have arrived at the last of our beginners guide to printing miniatures series and all that remains is some advice on removing, cleaning and curing your print. As we have mentioned a few times planning, organisation and a good workflow makes these next steps so much easier and less likely to end in a messy work area. Tupperware is your friend here and while we recommend 99% IPA other alternatives include Denatured Alcohol, Simple Green and Mean Green, its is a case of what you can get your hands on at a decent price point.

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What to print and where to get them

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Now that you are all set up with your printer you now need something to print you are probably asking “what to print and where to get them”. There is a huge selection of STL miniatures for you to easily access, some free and some paid for. In this article we will discuss some of our favourite places to download miniatures for printing covering all scales and genres, so much so that it is impossible to cover it all.

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Setting up your Resin Printer

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Your new printer has just arrived and you are eager to get printing but before you do there are a few important steps to take in setting up your resin printer and work space. As we said in the very first article of this series a clear uncluttered workspace with plenty of ventilation is key. As you are beginning it can be a little overwhelming handling this new material that you are not used to and if you do not organise your self well more time can be spent cleaning up unnecessary mess.

Now that your printer is in place on a good clear work surface we can begin the preparation and one of the most important things you will learn in this article is HOW TO LEVEL THE BUILD PLATE. It is one of the most important things to understand from the outset and once you have grasped it, its pretty easy by the way, you will be on your way. The following information is based on the Elegoo Mars 2 Pro however the principles remain no matter the printer.

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Best Resin for Printing Miniatures

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Best Resin for Printing Miniatures

Ask ten people what the best resin for printing miniatures is you can expect to get 10 different answers. Its comes down to personal choice and experience. One of the considerations when choosing a resin is what will you use your printed miniatures for. Some resins while providing excellent detail can be a little brittle when cured and this is fine if your main interest is to paint and display your models. If however you want to deploy your printed miniatures into your table top games then you may be happy to sacrifice some fine detailing in favour of durability.

For this article we will focus on the Resins that have worked well for us in a given situation and in a further article we will describe how to dial your Printer Resin settings in to eliminate under or over exposure, its a fine balance. All of the resins featured here fall into the UV 405nm category, perfect for our featured printers.

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Miniature Printing – What else do I need

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Miniature Printing - What do I Need ?

As well as a Printer and Resin there are other items that you will need to consider.

In the first two parts of our beginners guide to miniature printing  we covered the basics of Resin Printing and introduced our recommendations for your first resin printer. Now that you have got a printer in mind there are some other items that you will need and we will guide you through what we consider to be a bare bones minimal approach, a nice to have and an all in to suit all budgets.

With almost all printers you will get a basic box of accessories that vary in content and won’t be too dissimilar to what is shown. Setting aside the physical printer items accessories you can expect to find are:

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