{"id":10309,"date":"2020-12-05T05:46:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T10:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=10309"},"modified":"2020-12-05T05:46:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T10:46:10","slug":"completed-my-first-resin-3d-prints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=10309","title":{"rendered":"Completed my First Resin 3D Prints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, I completed resin printing my 20th goblin last night and so have a whole unit to paint for Wars of Orcs and Dwarves <\/em>(WOOD). \u00a0It seems easier to print in resin than in PLA, but the cleanup is a bit painful. \u00a0Probably the best thing to do is never clean up; keep the printer running 24\/7. \u00a0With a fan and an open window (easier to do in FL), the fumes are manageable. \u00a0I am going to set up a bench in the garage, however, for future prints, because I am not 100% about the fumes. \u00a0I ordered some additional supplies from Amazon, including several bottles of IPA, which is hard to come by in stores around here due to the plague panic, surgical gloves, some lunch trays to contain any spills, and some extra reservoirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elegoo Mars 2 Pro resin printer. My only complain is that the rubber gasket around the bottom of the UV shield keeps falling off, so I had to glue it with some rubber cement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


Chris or Greg sent me the link to a Kickstarter making 28mm Napoleonic figures, but they were post-1812, and my preferred periods are pre-1812, 1805-1809. \u00a0I think that more and more people are going to start selling stl files for figures as the price of resin printers has come way down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The reviews on the Elegoo Mars 2 Pro<\/strong> were solid, so I took the plunge. \u00a0The Photon is supposedly a little more flexible, but the Elegoo reviews said it was the easiest and simplest to use. \u00a0I don\u2019t like fighting through IT issues (like updating an SSL certificate yesterday on my blog), so I went with simple. \u00a0The Internet is famous for people who don’t do anything or have any credibility criticizing people who do*, so some of the negative reviews need to be taken with a grain of salt. For instance, it said the port for the USB stick was hard to get to. Note in the picture above, it is right in front and easily accessed. Another complaint was that it was difficult to remove the UV lid. I didn’t find that to be the case at all. Yes, it has to be lifted completely off the device, but I just didn’t see that as a big deal. The ChiTu Box slicer is a little non-intuitive, but once you get the hang of it, even that was straight forward, and ChiTu Box seems to be an industry-standard, free slicer — for resin printers at least. So far, I have been really happy with the printer and the results. Recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used Chris Abbey\u2019s (Sally 4th) workflow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n