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Printing Tutorials
Resin printing technique: support placement, orientation, slicing settings, curing, and troubleshooting.
Why it matters
Even the best printer will produce failures if your technique is off. Support placement, FEP tension, exposure settings, and curing time are all variables you control. Mastering them is the difference between a bin full of failed prints and a successful print farm.
Guides
How to Clean Your Resin Printer's Vat and FEP Film (Without Wrecking It)
The vat is the part beginners are most afraid to touch and most likely to damage. Here's how I clean mine on the Saturn: routine drain-downs, cured-resin removal, and FEP care, without a single scratch.
How to Orient Resin Miniatures for Printing: Angle, Support Scars, and Suction
I tilt every resin miniature 30-45 degrees, rotate scars off the face, and check for suction traps before I hit slice. Here's my full orientation process.
How to Resize and Rescale STL Miniatures for Resin Printing
How to scale STL miniatures to 28mm or 32mm, match an existing army, keep base sizes right, and avoid the detail loss and support problems that scaling causes.
How to Cure Resin Miniatures: UV Time, Temperature, and Common Mistakes
How to properly cure resin miniatures: UV cure times by resin type, why temperature and water matter, the budget nail-lamp method, and how to tell when a mini is fully cured.
Resin Printer Pre-Print Checklist: 9 Things to Check Before Every Miniature Print
A 60-second pre-flight checklist that prevents the six-hour failed prints. The nine things I check on the Saturn before every miniature print, and why each one matters.
How to Print Resin Miniatures for Board Games: Gloomhaven, Frosthaven, and Beyond
Upgrade your board game minis with resin prints: scaling, batch printing a full cast on a Saturn plate, durable resins, and fast paint for table play.
How to Hollow Resin Miniatures in Lychee and Chitubox (With Drain Holes)
Walk through hollowing resin miniatures in Lychee and Chitubox. Wall thickness, drain hole placement, infill, and the trade-offs that matter for tabletop printing.
Chitubox Settings for Miniatures: A Step-by-Step Configuration Guide
Exact Chitubox settings for miniatures: 0.05mm layers, anti-aliasing on, exposure times by resin type, support density, and hollowing thresholds that work.
Why Your Resin Miniature Print Failed: 10 Common Causes and Fixes
Resin stuck to FEP, supports detaching, melted detail, warped bases: 10 miniature print failures diagnosed by symptom with exact settings fixes for each.
Lychee Slicer Settings for Miniatures: The Settings That Actually Matter
Specific Lychee slicer values for resin miniatures: layer height by print type, exposure by printer class, AA level by resolution, and support settings that reduce failures on thin features.
How to Replace FEP Film on Elegoo and Anycubic Resin Printers
FEP film is the consumable you'll replace most often. Here's when to do it, what you need, and the step-by-step process, including the tension check most guides skip.
How to Add Supports for Resin Miniature Printing
Manual vs auto-supports in ChituBox and Lychee Slicer, with practical placement tips for miniatures. Stop failing prints before they start.
How to 3D Print Resin Miniatures: The Complete Beginner's Guide (Start to Painted Mini)
Everything you need to go from zero to finished, painted miniature: printer setup, resin selection, slicing, printing, washing, curing, and painting prep.
Resin Printing Your First Miniature: Complete Beginner Guide
Everything you need to know to go from unboxed printer to finished print: exposure settings, support basics, curing, and cleanup.