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🦋 Hot take: a screen protector on your LCD is a bandage, not a fix. If you're buying one for every machine out of habit, the real problem is probably exposure time or a panel that's already dying, and the protector just delays finding out.
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🦋 Layer lines, banding, and layer separation are three different defects with three different fixes. Measuring the spacing tells you which one you have before you waste a reprint changing the wrong setting.
resinandrolls.com/guides/fix-layer-lines-resin-miniatures
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🦋 How are you actually supporting delicate stuff, raised weapons, capes, thin horns? Auto-support density cranked up, manual point placement, or tree supports for everything. I want to know what you're doing differently than the slicer default.
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🦋 Tip: shake your resin bottle every time you fill the vat, not just the first time you open it. Pigment settles overnight. Fill straight from an unshaken bottle and the batch comes out visibly lighter than the one you loved last week.
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🦋 A Blood Bowl team is 12-16 minis, picked up and knocked down every match. Standard resin does not survive that kind of handling. What matters when you're printing a whole roster, not one hero model.
resinandrolls.com/articles/best-resin-printer-blood-bowl-miniatures
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Tip: stop topping off the vat with fresh resin on top of old. It works for a while, then your cure times start creeping for no obvious reason. Dump it back in the bottle and start clean every so often instead.
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I'm on my third imaging LCD for the Saturn. First one died in a FEP flood that took out the control panel with it. Second one died because I dropped a vat corner on it mid screen-protector swap. Third one gets treated very carefully.
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Honest question: are you team hollow or team solid print? I hollow anything bigger than a standard infantry mini to save resin, but the extra drain holes and cleanup add real time. Where do you draw the line?
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Printing tip: cutting your supports down before removing them fully makes
cleanup way faster and reduces breakage on thin details.

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A magnetized weapon arm sounds fiddly until you actually do one. Right magnet size for the joint, hand drill only (resin cracks under a power bit), and a polarity trick so you stop gluing magnets in backwards.
resinandrolls.com/guides/magnetize-3d-printed-miniatures
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Hot take: buying pre-supported files is not cheating. Learning to support a model yourself is a real skill, but it is not a prerequisite for a good print. Paying a few bucks to skip a bad night of overhangs is a fine trade.
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Tip: check your mini is actually dry before it goes under the lamp, not just dry to the touch. Water trapped in a cloak fold or backpack strap cures into a white frosted patch you cannot sand out. Give wash time to fully evaporate first.
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a little rotation video of my resin skull print 💀✨ scanned from a skull in suzy’s collection & printed just under full size. a power cut stopped it right before the end 😩 but i think that makes it imperfectly perfect 🙂

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Every forum question boils down to "can I use a nail lamp." Yes. What actually matters is wavelength, coverage on undercuts, and knowing when to stop. Wattage barely factors in. Ranked from a $20 lamp to a real station.
resinandrolls.com/articles/best-uv-lamp-curing-resin-miniatures
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Spent months blaming resin and supports for failures that came and went. The real problem was the folding table the Saturn sat on. Moved it onto something that does not flex when I walk past and most of it stopped. Vibration was never on my list.
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FILTER. DOWNLOAD. PRINT.

Filter by category, stone, and setting, then download a print-ready STL. Run it on the resin printer and hand the client a physical piece before you cast. 3djewelrycatalog.com

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Tip: if you hollow a mini, put in two drain holes, not one. A single hole traps a pocket of uncured resin that seeps out through the paint weeks later. Second hole on the opposite side and it actually drains while it washes.
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Honest question: how big is your unpainted pile right now? I print considerably faster than I paint and the grey drawer keeps winning. Has anyone actually landed on a ratio that holds, or are we all just printing the next thing.
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