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Been playing around with the Dremel Digilab available at my library, hoping that I can make myself some poorhammer units. I know these detailed pieces really need to be printed on a fancy resin printer, but $4 wasn't a bad price to experiment with scale shrug-outta-hecks. I was hoping I could attempt to make some Battletech minis, too, but I'll probably need to use a resin printer for that, too

The smaller/thinner bits totally got fucked up tho lol

If anyone has any resin printer services they recommend, let me know!

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I had to dig this up from my Youtube history, but there are some things you can do. Specifically the video shows how sanding and a little "Acrylic Primer Filler" (which does exactly what it says on the tin) that can fill in some of the worst steps. Bonus is you can use that as your primer (I believe) for painting.

Then again, you can be like my old self and just be bad at painting! Then you too can slop gobs of primer/paint until it's "smooth" too!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This is super helpful! I printed this with a .1 layer thickness with the hopes that it'd make the final product more detailed, but I think it caused some of the pieces to have issues. I might try a reprint at .2 and see what happens.

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