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SECTION 01

Buying and Setup

Six lessons covering the choices made before a single layer is printed: which printer, which resin, where it lives, what supplies to buy, and where to source files. Walk into Section 2 with kit you will not regret in three months.

Buying and Setup

Resin Printing Fundamentals

How a consumer MSLA resin printer actually works, layer by layer, so the rest of the course makes sense before any resin gets poured.

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Buying and Setup

Buying Resin

Toxicity, viscosity, and the water washable versus alcohol washable decision that shapes the rest of the post process. Plus what to choose for a first bottle of grey miniature resin.

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Buying and Setup

Printing Space and Toxicity

How to evaluate a garage, shed, basement, or spare room. Which spaces work, which never work, and what to do when none of the available spaces are ideal.

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Buying and Setup

Buying Supplies

The PPE and post process kit needed before resin gets poured. What is required for everyone, what differs by resin type, and what can safely wait.

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SECTION 02

The CRISP Printing Process

Fourteen lessons covering the printing workflow itself: from the first calibration print to a clean miniature ready for paint, plus how to handle the failures every printer eventually meets.

The CRISP Printing Process

The CRISP Printing Process

The framework that underpins the rest of the course: Consistent, Razor sharp, Improving, Safe, Painless. What each letter means in practice and why the order matters.

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The CRISP Printing Process

Printing CRISP Miniatures

A fast walkthrough of the full workflow from slicing to waste removal, so the detailed lessons that follow have a shape to slot into.

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The CRISP Printing Process

Check and Level a New Resin Printer

The unboxing inspection that catches quality control issues inside the return window, plus the build plate levelling procedure with the paper method.

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The CRISP Printing Process

Printer Settings and Calibration Tools

What needs calibrating and why borrowing settings does not work. A tour of the available calibration tools, with a clear recommendation for the Cones of Calibration as the starting point.

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The CRISP Printing Process

Setup of your printer settings

Setting up a printer profile in Lychee, dialling in normal layers and burn in layers, and running the first Cones of Calibration test print.

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The CRISP Printing Process

Calibration Example

A hands on demonstration of the calibration loop: print, judge how the model comes off the build plate, read the cones, adjust exposure, and iterate until settings are good enough to print a miniature.

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The CRISP Printing Process

Slicing Miniatures and the first real print

Printing the first proper miniature on calibrated settings using Puck the Adventurer as a test, then filling a build plate with pre supported files for a full first run.

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The CRISP Printing Process

Cleaning Resin Prints with Alcohol

The three container method (Dirty, Not That Dirty, Wash Station), the curing step, and how to dispose of contaminated alcohol without distilling or filtering it.

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The CRISP Printing Process

Printing Bigger and Hollow Models

Settings adjustments for bigger models, the drainage hole rule for hollow models, and why hollowing water washable resin tends to crack the model from the inside.

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The CRISP Printing Process

Tank Clean after a Failed Print

Using the Tank Clean feature without emptying the vat, when to empty the vat anyway for a visual inspection, and how to judge whether the FEP needs replacing.

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The CRISP Printing Process

Changing FEP

Removing the frame, replacing the sheet, and reassembling with the right tension. Why the simple method beats the tension theories online.

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The CRISP Printing Process

Failed Print Cleanup

Handling failures calmly: a vat hanging in midair, a suspected FEP tear, resin on the screen, resin inside the printer. What to do first, second, and third.

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