Resin Printing for Miniatures
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Most resin printing advice is either too vague to act on or written for someone already three printers deep. The guides here focus on the specific failures that stop beginners from getting clean results — wrong exposure times, failed supports, sticky residue, broken details at cleanup.
Start with the free video course to get your first print dialled in. Use the articles to work through the problems that come up after that.
Watch and Learn
Give me 12 minutes, and I'll teach you how to print resin miniatures
If I Started Printing Miniatures in 2025, I'd Do This
STOP Ruining Your Resin Prints with These Mistakes!
Brutally honest resin printing advice in 14 minutes
I wish I knew this before I started printing miniatures
Ultimate Resin Printing Gear for Beginners!
2025 is The Best Year EVER For Buying a Resin 3D Printer
The Best Resin for Miniatures are NOT the Most Expensive
Cleaning Resin Prints in Water is Better Than You Think
What AMAZING Things Should You Print On Your New Resin Printer?
Discover Your PERFECT Resin 3D Printer Match!
Why I would still buy these resin 3D printers from 2023
New to resin printing?
These are the three best places to begin.
Free Course
Five lessons covering gear, settings, washing and curing. No upsells, no fluff. The fastest way to get a clean first print.
Read this first →Start Here
What the printer actually does, what you need to buy, and what most beginners get wrong before they even start.
Read this first →Avoid This
The setup and workflow problems that waste the most time and resin in the first few weeks. Read this before your first print.
Read this first →Recommended Printers
Best for beginners
18 micron pixels in a tidy little machine that does the basics properly and nothing else. No smart features to go wrong, no speed gimmicks, just the best cheap route into miniature printing.
Read the full write upBest mid size
A big build plate, 24 micron pixels, and a very honest price. No speed tricks and no smart features, which is exactly why it is the best value buy in the Saturn line.
Read the full write upBest fast printer
Elegoo solved the speed problem by tilting the VAT instead of compromising on pixel size or resin quality. Noticeably faster prints at the same detail as the Mars 4.
Read the full write upRecommended Resins
Best all rounder
Purpose built for printing miniatures. Flexible enough to survive a drop off the table, stiff enough to hold fine detail on faces and filigree.
Read the full write upBest detail and flex
Even more flexible than Wargamer Resin and the detail is genuinely excellent. The flex makes it a bit harder to work with at the supports and cleanup stage, so not a beginner pick.
Read the full write upBest budget workhorse
The cheap workhorse. Dependable, easy to print with, and cheap enough that you can bulk buy it. Not the most flexible but perfectly fine for the vast majority of miniature work.
Read the full write upLatest Articles
Six honest opinions about resin printing in 2026: 30 micron detail, boringly similar printers, the overcuring myth, idle VOCs, why settings are simple, and why FDM will catch up.
If I had a time machine and could send myself back to the start of my resin printing career, here is the brutally honest advice I would give. Six things, all of them slightly contrarian, all of them true.
A decision framework for picking a resin 3D printer in 2026. What actually matters, what is marketing fluff, and how to match a printer to your real use case.
Most beginner advice is a list of best printers. That answer ages badly. Here is how to figure out for yourself what features matter and which ones are not worth paying for.
Ten honest lessons from years of resin printing miniatures. Workspace, temperature, UV light, hidden costs, the indie scene, and the mindset shift that surprises everyone.
When I started resin printing the information online was sparse and a lot of it was wrong. These are the ten things I would tell my past self before he ordered that first Mars.
