Manda's (Amachan) Sacrifice to Hel

This might be a weird topic to post in this project, but it is relevant to what I am doing. I ordered some 3D printed braziers to use with my statue of Hel. The first time I ever bought physical 3D prints rather than printing it myself. I got some 3D printed stuff gifted to me in the past and those where technically worse than these, but that was years ago. My problem with 3D printing has always been the material, the resin. Not so much working with it with the printer and all that stuff went fine mostly. It is working with the material for a miniature or a scenery piece. It is way too brittle in my opinion and when you add a flexing agent to the resin, it becomes way too soft. I never liked cleaning, building and to a certain degree even painting the 3D printed resin figures. So I thought there has been years of development in 3D printing things must have gotten better…… These are from Greenstuff World and since they offer a lot of prints in physical form they must have quite the experience with it. I can honestly say my old Creality LD-002R that stops working when you look at it wrongly did a better job than these.

Anyway, let’s go over the print errors they made that I think should not be on a sold product.

1. It looks like there is a small chunk cut off from the side. They most likely printed it too close to bed edge.

2. There is a bit of island forming underneath the frame and thus that was not properly supported.

3. Is that a support coming through the feet of the brazier? 🤔😞

And these are just the major issues that I found. There is too much to go into.

Overall these cost me less than €5,- to buy, so I am not going to make too much of a fuzz over their quality control. But after cleaning them off the supports and such I just ran into the same issues that I don’t like about 3D printed resin to begin with. And therefore I am not investing in a new printer and really going to avoid buying 3D printed miniatures and scenery bits.

For this project however 1 is a complete write off because of the cut off edge, the other 3 will be fine and I will use 2 of those in this scenery piece. I was originally planning on using all 4……

And yes, I am basically giving up on 3D printed resin as a viable material for my hobby. It is only slightly better than that flexible rubbery stuff some companies think making miniatures out of is a good idea. Anyway, rant over. 😔