Reply To: 3D printed minis dissolving

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The pieces involved are furniture and accessories for a Wizard’s tower diorama set, so not particularly big, about the size of an infantry trooper. I have taken them out of their plastic wrappers and placed them on a paper towel inside a little plastic bucket, so they can ‘drain’ or dry without damaging anything else. I will try to dig the seller out of my Fleabay archive and ask them about this. I am wondering if priming them would stop the rot or if it would be similar to those 54mm Mexican soldiers you get in the Americana Alamo set. No matter how thickly you prime them or with what, the indigo blue they are made of ALWAYS leaks through, even through automotive spray primer.

I’ve always been very suspicious of 3D prints, they are SUPERFRAGILE – even more so than resin, which is also kind of a nightmare – and while the ultra-deep undercuts the procedure allows look cool, they make some of the figures extremely hard to paint.

I am very careful with my figures, and 3D printed rabbit assassin broke 3 times in 2 different places just while cleaning and painting…..

My preferred material will always be metal ,followed by hard plastic, then soft plastic  – such as Airfix, toy soldiers, etc. I buy resin figures only in very limited numbers and then only if there is NO other option – Demented Games, for example, offer most of theirs  in either metal or resin – and I will be very, very reluctant to ever buy 3D again.

Sometimes, change is not good and ‘progress’ creates more problems than it solves.