Resin Printing for Miniatures
Get practical setup guidance, troubleshooting help, and a free beginner video course built for hobbyists who want sharper prints and less wasted resin.
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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.
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Free Course
Five lessons covering gear, settings, washing and curing. No upsells, no fluff. The fastest way to get a clean first print.
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What the printer actually does, what you need to buy, and what most beginners get wrong before they even start.
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The setup and workflow problems that waste the most time and resin in the first few weeks. Read this before your first print.
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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.
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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.
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Why expensive resin is not automatically better for miniature printing, what actually matters in a resin, and the three I recommend for most hobbyists.
Expensive resin does not automatically print better miniatures. Here is what actually matters, and the three bottles I reach for in my own workshop.
The specific gear, printer, resin, and workflow I would choose if I were starting miniature resin printing in 2026 with 27 years of hobby hindsight.
The honest version of what I would pick if I were starting today. Not the gear list on every beginner page. The actual decisions I would make with hindsight.
Which older resin 3D printers are worth buying used in 2026, which ones are not, and what to check before handing over money for a second hand machine.
A 2023 printer at half the price is often a better buy than a 2026 one at full price. Here are the second hand machines worth chasing and the ones to skip.
